Attempt # 2- Surgery Day..excited, nervous, hopeful & prayerful...

After not sleeping at all, I rise early (which is not the norm for me and rarely occurs) to make it to the hospital before 9 and all the pre-surgery crap. I go back see her and let her know she has ALOT of people praying for her. So, they take her down to surgery and My mom, Shakelle, LeeLee and I go down to see her in the surgery area (side note: She is actually taking lip gloss into surgery with her, I found that funny!) and tell her we love her and to pray. They wheel her away and we go back up to ICU waiting. We all wait and anticpate the calls from the O.R with updates.
       Update # 1: They were having trouble sticking her, which delayed surgery start.
    
       Update #2:   She is doing well and is stable, they are inserting the metal "hardware" and doing grafts.

       Update #3:   They are putting in screws.

So after 3 updates, the surgery is over and at about 5 p.m. or a little after, Dr. Hodge comes out looking for Greg, who went home for a moment, but I lead him to mom and gives us the finals of the surgery. He says that surgery went well, she is recovering and that this is one of the worst spinal cord injuries he has ever seen and he does alot of these and has been doing this for years. He tells us her spinal cord was completely severed and there were pieces in there he couldn't even recognize enough to put back together. So of course I ask " where do we stand as far as the paraylsis is concerned?" and he says "Still permanent paraylsis." I shake his hand and say thank you and my mom breaks down and so does everyone else; what little hope we had was dashed,  everyone was hoping the spinal cord would remain intact, that way she would have a greater chance of walking again...