Elijah is doing great… (for being sawed in half)
He is sleeping comfortably. He hasn’t needed any oxygen since they wheeled him out.
We’ve already got a glass and half of water down him and he’s asking for jello…. (he doesn’t even like jello! But I know, he knows, he has to have these things in order to get solid food)
I may or may not do more tonight. I have a couple more pictures to get up here though.

They ended up rotating the top of each leg to get the knees out and hip in a better position.
Also, they rotated only one of the lower legs. We thought they’d do two. But, they believe the other didn’t need it currently.
He’s in and out of being awake. A little pain too, but doing very well.
He said he wished they’d put casts on because people won’t have room to sign it!
Thank you for your prayers. More later. There should be more pictures and xrays on the left of the page. I have more pictures to send soon.

They just called and said he went to sleep fine. He had practiced with his mask, as you can see from the pictures to the left.
He was brave and just used the mask instead of one of the drugs that makes you loopy first.
They used fiber optics to guide the breathing tube.
He will have two fiberglass casts on lower legs. He picked red! His favorite color. They let you pick a flavor for your bathing mask too. He chose root beer. (if he would have picked just beer, I would have been worried.)
See you after noon…..

They called and said the top portion of the first leg is done. Going a little slower then expected. But fine.
My first update was delayed do to me using the wrong email address. Ooops. Sorry. Hope you liked the pictures though.

The next operation is July 31st. We arrive at 6 AM (5 hr operation, but add a couple hours to each side before we see him again)
They will rotate the bone close to the hip on each leg to bring the knees out more.
Also, the large bone in the lower leg will be rotated to bring the feet more inward.
Thank you for your prayers.

If you go back through this blog you can see the other operations he’s had and pictures. Most of you know that at 2 1/2 years old he was paralyzed from the chest down and the miracle that it’s been for him to be able to walk at all.

I’ll update everyone here, instead of email.  Likely times of update 9AM, 12PM, 3PM, 6PM.