Up EARLY

When Laura's alarm went off at 4 am this morning, I thought to myself "maybe I should not have stayed up until 12:30 am watching the Yankees beat the BoSox." Nah, it was still worth it.

We were both so asleep that we got ready without speaking to each other. This was not out of spite, it was out of lack of sleep. Also, we got ready without turning on the bathroom light until the very end and then......WHAM! The light hit us like a ton of bricks. It felt like the Sun was rising inside of our bathroom. Anyway, you did not come here to read about us so lets move on...

When Laura brought Cole downstairs to put him in his car seat, his eyes were a pretty shade of dark blue. He did have a furrowed brow as if to say "ok, now I KNOW that you people are crazy because you just disturbed my sleep without having a warm bottle waiting on me." He was calm while we put him in the car and fell back asleep as we drove off into the night.

Once we checked in at Fort Knox...umm, I mean the Levine Children's Hospital, we went up to the 5th floor. Several nurses and doctors came in to see us and to check his vitals. There were at least 5-6 different people came in and asked us the same questions. "When was the last time he had anything to eat or drink?" "Is latex the only allergy that Cole has?" "Who is his surgeon?" "What was the name of his first surgery?" "What surgery is he having today?" "Did he have his first surgery here?" "Is he an only child?" "Who does he live with?"

I thought to myself, "man, are you people writing a book? If so, then leave that chapter OUT!" Of course, they knew the answers to all of these questions and were just verifying that we knew the answers, but still....at 5:30 am it was a bit annoying. At least it was to me, Matt "the Ahole in the morning" Griffin. I am sorry to be so crass, but to say that I am not a morning person would be an understatement.

Then "Millie" came in to take Cole back for his surgery. Laura handed Cole over and it felt like "behold, we send you out as a sheep amongst wolves." We both kissed him on his silky soft blonde head and handed him over to Millie. She was very careful to support him and she was extra sweet to him which made us feel a little bit better. That was at 6:28 am (they were scheduled to take him back at 6:30 am) so they were right on time.

We were told previously that it takes about an hour to set up everything and to administer the anesthesia. The plan is to begin the surgery at 7:30 am.

We are in the 5th floor waiting room at LCH so we will update the site as we hear updates.

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God Bless and we shall update soon.

Matt and Laura