Pre Op Party People

Last night I tried to get as man jokes in as I could. I wasn't sure how early we would start in the morning, and I heard that post surgery, the patient should refrain from belly laughs. I don't know if that's an urban legend or not, but didn't want to take any chances.

After a nice wake up call from my mom @ 4:45, we headed over to the hospital. It's the Menlo Park Surgical Hospital in (duh) Menlo Park. It isn't really a hospital, but more like a hotel that happens to have operating rooms instead of conference rooms. We got here around 6:20, there being no traffic at all this time of the day.

Once we got our room. I-Li got more comfortable in the operating outfit (pic with To-Li)

The anaesthesiologist, Bruce I think his name is, came in. TANGENT: I-Li actually called the anaesthesiologist group/company/whatever a couple days ago to find out if they planned to stick a huge tube down her throat. The fear was that it might impact her vocal chords. She managed to get a guy (I'll call him Bruce until I know better) who is a musician. He said that he would make sure to get this gig so he could take care of her. BACK: Anyway, so Bruce came in and gave us the d/l on what would happen. He also got us all in high spirits with his tales of his piano playing and the story of how George Winston got signed to Windham Hill.

At about 8:30, we went to the surgery area, and they ushered I-Li away. So, now we wait. More updates soon.