Surgery

Ok for those of you who are new to this page, I'm trying to get things going on here. Just to update everyone on what is going on here's the lowdown and this site will be the one updated and I'll allow anyone to comment so please comment and offer your well wishes...she does read them and enjoys them when I tell her there is somehting new to report.

Surgery is September 2, 2008 in Milwaukee at Froedtert Hospital. She will allegedly be there for 5 - 7 days a couple of those days will be in ICU. Once we get her into surgery I'll update as the doctors update us. So...know that no news is good news.

Feel free to email me at farmerspice@yahoo.com as it comes directly to my phone. I assume that like most other hospitals this one will too have free wifi so that I can get to you as soon as possible.

In advance thanks so much for your support and help at this time. She's fine now...she won't be fine in a month. I think the process to remove this thing is way worse than what it really is. The doctors do have a plan and they are ready to tackle that.

Here's what we know to this point:

• It is a tumor
• They believe she has had it for some time
• They also believe it is NOT cancer
• It is in a difficult spot
• She is having difficulty seeing
• She is losing her color vision
• She has a brain - my uncles all owe me money for thinking she was brainless all this time
• Dr. Harris (eye surgeon) is highly regarded in his field like 1 or 2 in the nation
• She is comfortable with the doctors
• Dr. Sinson will put titanium back where the bone has been eroded by the tumor
• Is is called a cavernous hemangioma and is close to the brain
• A neurosurgeon and an eye surgeon will perform the surgery together
• The surgery will go in through her scalp not through her eye
• Recovery will take some time

Please ask questions. It's great to know that we have some of the greatest friends in the world. We are definitely blessed.

Please forward this to those that know my mom and need an update!!

Continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. It is a difficult road. It is not easy, but we're Guffeys and Howards we'll make it just fine.