Surgery has begun

This is a day that Bobbi has been looking forward to since the first days after she came home. Her goal has always been to be able to walk. She has been working hard in physical therapy since getting home to strengthen her and get her as strong as possible before having this operation. This operation is the next big step in getting her closer to being able to walk.

Bobbi is currently in the OR. Here are a few pictures from this morning. However, I think the most important one is that they got her name tag corrected to be more appropriate and to Bobbi's liking. Any of you that know Bobbi will know immediately what was wrong with the first name tag!

Way too girly girl.

That is more like it!

After getting the name tag issue resolved they got on to the other less important things like going over the checklist of what they were going to be doing and putting the surgeons initials on each location where they were planning to make an incision. There were a lot of initials.

Mom and daughter getting ready to head back to the OR to put Bobbi to sleep.

Bobbi has only had one other surgery in her life when she was about 3 years old and she was dropped off at the hospital by a staff member and was on her own until they picked her up when she was ready to return to her group home. This time Bobbi had her Mom and her Dad (and Eben) with her and she will have one or the other of us or Grandma with her until it is time for her to come home.