Journal entry by Barbara Bradley — Jan 14, 2013

I’ll make this short and sweet because it has been a very long day. We arrived this morning at duke hospital for preop appointments. We have a checkin time of 9am. Katie is the second surgery for her surgeon so we are most likely looking at 10ish for her surgery. We are doing well. Tired. Checked in to Ronald McDonald House for our stay. Because of flu procedures at the hospital Nathan won’t be allowed to her room once Katie moves from PICU and he definitely won’t be able to go into ICU. We planned to take turns with the kids anyway but this makes things a little more challenging. We will make do. Katie got her MRI and they glued the “beads” on her head again to help with mapping for the surgery. She looks like an alien. A very cute alien. I’ll post updates in the morning as I get them. Thank you all for the prayers and thoughts.