First update

This is Dan,

About 45 minutes ago Jess was taken from the pre-op area to the surgery room. She was in as good of spirits as can be expected. Her tracking status still has her in the operating room, but they have yet to actually start the procedure. My understanding is that she is getting her anesthesia and more IVs. Im sure its no surprise but she quickly made friends with her entire surgical team. She was restless last night and, although I refused to let her respond to any, we went through the comments of support she has received from everyone and it quickly settled her down and filled her heart with happiness. Adding a couple cat videos after quickly had her asleep. Thank you for all of your support and encouragement. We will try to keep updating the blog and allow everyone to follow along with her progress. Once we are able, we will be sharing your comments with her, so if you are debating writing something please go forward and say whatever you feeling. It makes a big impact on her and means so much. Thank you,

Surgery Final Details

This is Dan,

I have removed Jess from her phone and laptop in an attempt to minimize the vast amount of stress she is dealing with. She had a few Dr appointments today, along with finalizing everything necessary for her surgery tomorrow, took their toll on her. The stress that she is under is tremendous and even before todays activities it has effected her greatly. Her body temperature was a full degree below the normal range, which the Dr says can happen when people are in high stress situations. One of her eye lashes actually turned white over night. These are just a couple of examples to illustrate the reasons I have chosen to remove Jess from the outside world and allow her to focus on herself, as much as is possible anyway. We have been overwhelmed with support and love sent our way, and I wanted everyone to know that any lack of response from Jess is because of my wishes of her. Thank you for your understanding.

Tomorrow Jess is scheduled to begin the surgical process about 7:15 with the actual surgery scheduled to begin at 7:30. If everything goes accordingly, Jess should be finishing up with the surgery around 1:30pm and we will get an update (and hopefully get to see her) an hour or two after that. She asked me to let you know so that if you wished to send her your thoughts, prayers, love (or any form of support) this might be a good of a time as any. We truly appreciate all the support everyone has given us, thank you.


The blog will be update periodically by either myself or Jess's parents. We will attempt to keep everyone informed as best as possible but priority one is taking care of Jess so please give us some patience.