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Just to let everyone know, Micah is doing great! Everything went very smoothly this morning, and we are so thankful!! That's the short version.

Here's the long version.

Curtis and I went to bed at about 11 last night. Elizabeth woke up at about 1:30 with a very wet bed. It took Curtis almost 30 minutes to get her calm enough to go back to sleep. At 2:45, I was woken up by a very weird noise from the back yard, followed by all the electricity going out. I wake up Curtis, and sure enough (from what we can tell in the middle of the night) the electricity is out in the entire neighborhood. And of course there is no one you can get a hold of at 3am. We decide to set the alarm on the cell phone, and go back to sleep. Or at least that's what we tried to do. Curtis sleeps with a CPAP (which runs off electricity) that prevents him from snoring. I've gotten very used to have a husband who doesn't snore, and it took me awhile to readjust to the snoring situation. The phone alarm goes off at 4:45. The electricity is back on, so Curtis and I begin to get ready for the morning.

We wake the kids up at 5:45, leave the house at 6:00, take Elizabeth to our pastor's house, and are at the hospital at 6:30. We get checked in, Micah got the check out from the nurse, the anaesthesiologist, and then we wait. We wait till about 7:45, and the doctor comes in, assures us everything will be fine, and that they will take him back soon. At this point, Micah is exhausted. He falls asleep, and finally, at about 8:25 they come back to get him. Thankfully, he stayed asleep, making the leaving Mommy and Daddy situation very smooth.

Ten minutes later, the doctor comes in to tell us that everything is good, and that they will be bringing Micah back in shortly. Sure enough, not even 10 minutes later, they bring Micah back. He looks at me, and bursts into tears. I snuggle him, get him something to drink and he calms down. Then, he figures out that he has an oxygen monitor on his finger, and that just ticks him off. He screamed and cried, and wiggled just enough that the monitor comes loose, and he flat lined (on the monitor at least). This happens one other time, and the nurse came in, said he was obviously breathing, and took the monitor off. One of the nurses from the OR comes in to check on Micah. She tells us that they have nicknamed Micah "Wild Child." Apparently, waking up from his anaesthesia, he was quite unhappy, and made sure everyone around knew it. He even has some nice scratches to show from his little fit.

Besides being very tired, everyone is doing great. We are ALL going to go take a nap now! Thank you for your thoughts and prayers!