Surgery is over!!!!!!!

The good news is the surgery is over!! Chris was able to stay awake for 80% of it and then began to grow tired so they put him back to sleep to finish up the last 20%. During the time that he was awake they did not damage any of his motion but since they put him back to sleep for the last 20% they are uncertain as to the condition he will be in as far as moving the right side of his body, facial muscle control, and speech, but the neurosurgeon sounded confident that Chris would be just as he was before the surgery. The neurosurgeon said Chris only scared him once. they were asking him questions during the surgery and at one point someone asked how much money he had made and hour at a previous job. Chris said,"11 , 11, 11, 11, ...." The neurosurgeon thought "Oh know his speech was fine this whole time and now he's going to have a problem???!!!!) Then chris said,"11,11, I don't know 11.67 or11.75 something like that." This relieved everyone in the room.

BAD NEWS: They could NOT remove all the tumor. The MRI will show how much they were able to remove and we should get those results later. They are sending a piece of the tumor for a biopsy, but we were told that the prognosis was NOT good. He said he wanted to prepare us for what lied ahead which meant Chris' days are numbered. we wont know how fast the tumor is growing until we get the pathology report back in a couple days so life expectancy is unknown, but not long. everyone in the room lost a breathe when we heard the news that our brother (son) was going to die and there was nothing we could do about it. You could almost see all the hope that was holding us together all day fly out of the room. The room felt dead. Tears fell to the floor. Then the pastor prayed. Hope was slowly restored as we counted our blessing for at least prolonging Chris' life so we could all visit and be with him a last time.

The road ahead will be long and hard and we thank god for getting us this far! We are blessed that his hand was with Chris during surgery and everything went as expected! We know that all things happen for the glory of God and that He has a plan for all of us and a time for all of us to come home to Him.