Wednesday 16th July 2008

Mum writing this - Sarah is asleep!!
Yesterday was incredibly traumatic for all of us. We were first on the operating theatre list so were woken up at 6am to prepare Sarah for surgery. She had a wash, and cleaned her teeth and put on her sexy hospital gown and paper knickers!!! We were taken down at 8.30 and Sarah was put to sleep at 8.45am. Dave and I walked around the hospital and had a full fried breakfast to try and calm us down a bit!! (It didn't work!) We watched a bit of telly and were called back to the recovery room at 12.50pm. It was the longest 4 hours of our lives!! Sarah was awake when we got there and a bit upset because her throat was sore from where they had put a tube down her throat to give her oxygen. She had some painkillers and calmed down a bit. She wiggled her toes to show that her bad leg was still working and the surgeon came and told us it all went well, and he had removed the tumour completely - yippee!! Sarah now has a back-slab cast on (one that doesn't go all the way round the front, just on the back of her leg to hold it straight, and loads of bandages. She has an epidural in her spine to block the pain signals so she says her leg isn't painful. We spent the night in the High Dependancy Unit so they could keep an eye on her. I had to sleep on a plastic chair leaning on the edge of Sarahs bed - not to be recommended!! Dave slept on the ward on the camp bed I had managed to find the night before!. Sarah had a bit of a temperature over night, and had to be rolled over twice to stop her getting bedsores. She cried a bit because it was so sore, but she was very brave. The worst bit is over now, and all we have to concentrate on now is getting her sitting up and walking about on her crutches - that should be fun..................