The first round of surgery is almost done. The work on her spine is done, and they’re closing her up now.
One of our biggest concerns is that the surgeon would need to remove discs from her spine down to L4, which increases the chance of back pain later in life. He just wasn’t sure what he would have to do until he got in there.
Well, he said her spine is very loose, very flexible, and it seems like it should straighten well. He stopped at L3 instead of L4, giving her spine a chance to do its thing. If it looks like its not straightening up well enough, he can do L4 next Monday — hopefully he wont.
In short, great news all around for the first round. This feels very promising that he’ll be able to straighten her spine out more than we’d hoped… Maybe he will get more than 3 inches growth for her 🙂