He is in surgery now, the procedure, overly simplified, involves making an incision in the front of the neck, drilling through the broken bone to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and then stabilizing the vertebrae with a titanium plate or recreating the the vertebrae with a bone and titanium collar. He is pretty much a candidate to be in the next X-Men movie, I can just feel it.

There is also a hematoma on the spinal cord that IF it can be safely removed they will, but only a very strong IF as the fact that he is getting movement back to his limbs suggests that it will overtime go away.

Dr. Mahadeo will have another neurologist in theatre with him, i forget his name, lets call him Dr. Who. They have a very strategic contingency plan and options of what to do in various scenarios. Dr. M did an excellent job of briefing us on all of these earlier so we have some ideas of what to potentially expect.

The total surgery will take about 3-4 hours he went in around 1:30, I am bad at math you can figure it out.

So now we all just wait. I feel an overwhelming combination of very excited and very nervous. Kinda like being at the top of a really large roller coaster…blind folded….wearing a velour pantsuit, a really jaunty one with a hat…Ok i’ll stop now.