Wednesday October 17th

This is the email update that went out Wednesday:

Thanks again to everyone for their thoughts and prayers. We will try to keep you updated as often as possible.

Both Mom and Bill were to go in for surgery today: Mom on her spine, and Bill to refresh his dressing in his stomach and look for any additional internal bleeding. There was a fire at MCV this morning that shut down the OR, so they were unable to go in for surgery. Unfortunately, the last news at the hospital was the OR will be open on a very limited basis tomorrow as well, so they are unlikely to have surgery until Friday.

The good news is Bill was moved right next door to Mom last night, so they are now in adjacent rooms in one ICU with excellent nurses. Both are fairly stable with some ups and downs, but they are clearly fighting. We have stereos set up in each of their rooms with their favorite CDs and I think this is really helping.

Our apologies for not being able to respond to everyone directly. Thanks again for your support and prayers. We will keep you updated as often as possible.
Kelly