On Our Way to Cincinnati!

Hit the highway at 9:24 am, thought we were gonna start before 8, but not being on a strict schedule and being able to take lots more than you can when you're flying caused a bit of a delay! Kids are happy in the backseat watching a movie on the DVD player, so we're off to an easy start!

The plan is to drive ~ 9-10 hrs to Kansas City today. I thought I found a great hotel with a water park in it, until I discovered that they close at 6 pm on Sundays and are closed all day on Mondays and read some crummy reviews about the hotel too. Oh well we'll just sleep and get back on the road in the morning!

On Monday we are driving to Indianapolis, about 2 hrs from Cincy. Our niece, Meghan, hooked us up with some discounted rates, but couldn't find anything in Cincy for Monday night , so figured it would be a nice way to break up the driving to stop in Indianapolis.

On Tuesday we go straight to the hospital to see Dr. Gordon and have him explain his surgical plan for Wednesday. On the phone Friday his nurse told me it will be both the lower and the upper jaw. I learned a lot about the upper jaw surgery years ago, called a LeFort II, but she said he is doing some something between a LeFort II and III and I realized I had no idea what the difference was.
I looked it up after getting off the phone and it just means the cut the bone in a different place. It kinda shook me up, it involves her eye sockets and the bridge of her nose. I almost want to say no. I'm having to trust him more than ever. Thankfully thus is his fourth time working on Faith and we've always had good results in the past. He also said for us to expect her to be in the hospital for 5-7 days. That's a LOT longer than the 1-3 nights I was thinking it would be.

We are staying at the Ronald McDonald House from Tuesday - Sunday, but now Faith probably won't get to spend more than the first night there. It still will be much easier for us as we can walk back and forth from the hospital anytime to trade shifts or go shower or get a bite to eat.

I will try to post a little every day or two to keep everyone up to date. Thanks for reading!!

Robin