Praise God! Ryan is out of surgery as of about 1:00pm. His surgeon came to the waiting room, and said that everything went well! Surprise, though, they ended up taking out the tumor on his brain stem instead of the one on the cerebellum. It makes me so happy to know that that one is out of there! Dr. Lonser went in and drained the cyst from the cerebullar tumor, but decided to head straight for the other one, because he was pretty positive that it was the one causing the problems for Ryan. It was a difficult surgery, but he said that he is glad with the decision to take that one out. We won't know until Ryan is recovered if the other one is causing any symptoms still, so we could have some time before the next surgery.
Wow! This is still kind of hard to digest...I don't think any of us anticipated dealing with the brain stem today, so now we have to get through the next couple of hours wondering if Ryan will be OK when he wakes up. We should know pretty quickly if he is all right. Continued prayer is appreciated! He is in recovery right now and on his way up to the ICU after that so we should be able so see him around 3pm.
I'll post something later this afternoon...
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