5 pm update: Passed the 8-hour mark and he is still in surgery

The latest two-hour update was at 5. We were hoping he would be done at 5 since they took him in at 7:30 (we don't know what kind of problem prevented the surgery from starting until 9) but by 5 pm, that was eight hours of surgery, and they're still at it.

The message was the same at the desk: Surgery continues.

As I write this, it's 5:30--that's 10 hours since they took him back for anesthesia, and 8 1/2 hours since we were told that the surgery had finally started.

How does a surgeon do something so difficult for so long?

My brother said that since this is a teaching hospital, training surgeons come here from all over the world and assist the lead surgeons. So maybe that's how he can do this for so long.

Thank you for hanging in here with us and with our cowboy. I hope the next time I post, it's just a few minutes from now, and that we get the interview with the surgeon and hear that everything is fine.

hope...hope...hope...hope...hope....hoping.

Love to you.