Ecstatic!!

What a miracle!  Thank goodness, it looks like a linear fracture!  We will have official results on Monday or Tuesday, but for now....we are taking the preliminary results which were.....NO SIGN OF CANCER!!!
Poor Blake had a rough day on Friday.  We spent the night at Aunt Kathy's and neither Blake nor I slept much the night before the surgery.  Originally the surgery was scheduled for 12:00 Friday.  On Thursday they called and moved the surgery back to 10:50.  We had to be at Scottish Rite at 8:50.  Blake was no nervous that morning and when Aunt Cheryl came to pick us up, he said that his stomach dropped.  Blake and Daddy waited patiently for Aunt Cheryl:

Scottish Rite was very organized....as soon as we got there and filled out all of the paperwork, we were put in a room.

Blake kept his mind off of things by doing Word Search puzzles that Grandmomma gave him.  He loves those!  He felt much better when the nurse told him that there would be no shots (while he was awake) and no needles.  Time went by quickly as our room quickly became a revolving door.  We met the nurse, nurse practitioner, OR nurse, recovery room nurse, Dr. Fabregas, Dr. Fabregas' PA, nurse anethesist and anesthesiologist.  All of these people introduced themselves and made us feel at ease.  Aunt Cheryl's friend, Tony, who I felt like I already knew, came to check on Blake several times.  He even brought Blake a game (which he has spent many hours playing) and some snacks for after surgery. 

Blake was given Versed and Lortab.  They kept telling us to watch him because he would get very "loopy."  Unfortunately, that never happened.  Blake played Aunt Cheryl's ITouch up until it was time to go into surgery.  She had downloaded some really cool games for him.  He is a hard patient to keep down!

By the time they were ready to take Blake to surgery, he was too drugged to care.  The surgery lasted about an hour and Dr. Fab delivered the great news!  Blake was still in recovery so we could not see him, but Aunt Cheryl could!  She put on her badge and went to check on him.  Not too long after that, they brought him back. He was in excrutiating pain.  It was heartwrenching to watch.

The nurse was so good about trying to get his pain under control.  He had Lortab, Versed, Morphine and 3 doses of Phentanyl before he could get comfortable enough to relax.  Once he went to sleep he slept so hard for about 2 hours.

When he woke up, he felt great...until he started moving around.  Poor thing, he threw up so much.  The anesthesia didn't agree with him and everytime he moved, the motion made him worse.  He finally gave up and put the rag over his face!

After some Zofran, he began to feel better and was able to go to the bathroom and try out his new crutches!

We were released around 5:30.  Blake still felt sick and the first hour of the ride home was rough.  He felt so bad.  It was so good to finally get home about 10:00.  Blake had perked up by then.  He slept good and was up and moving Saturday morning.  He had a lot of visitors.  Noah came by to play with him and practiced pushing his wheelchair.  They have decided that Noah will be the one to push his wheelchair at school.  Now THAT is scary!!!!  He did a pretty good job at the house!

Today (Sunday), Blake has done very well.  He has only had Motrin and no pain meds.  He is walking mostly on his own without his crutches.  He amazes me and is such a trooper.  We will see how school goes tomorrow.  Hopefully tomorrow we will hear the final pathology report, but until then, we are thanking God for this miracle and are so greatful to everyone who has prayed for Blake.  Thank you so much!