Today's surgery

Randy had to be up at OHSU at 6 AM to see if he would need to have the surgery. The doctors checked out his leg and found some of skin is still dead. So, he had to have more surgery. He started surgery around noon. Before he started, he had some "happy juice" and Randy was pretty funny with his parents and the nurses. During the surgery, they took some muscles from his stomach and put it in his leg. They also took some skin from his thigh and put it on in where the skin was dead around his leg. They were able to clean out the prior surgery area and clean out blood clots. The surgery was around 4 1/2 hours. The skin graft should be the most painful part of recovery. He will spend the next 4 days at OHSU because the nurses have more information for the recovery of this particular surgery. Then he will move back to Doernbecher to start chemo on Friday. Most likely he will not get to come home this week. The family has asked for specific prayer that there is NO infection and that there continues to be a good blood flow in the new skin graft and new muscle placement. The nurses will be closely monitoring the blood flow. Randy still had a good attitude going into the surgery as he just wants to get done what needs to be done to Kick This Cancer! Possibly an update later...