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It is the night before Tye's surgery and it seems like it is a go at this point. If you haven't heard Tye came down with croup (5th time in a year) over the weekend. It was a pretty serious episode...we spent a few hours in the emergency room. We are becoming regulars there since Tye wants to get sick only on the weekends. At least Bob was home this time to help me make the decision to go. Tye was having a very hard time breathing so they took us back to a room with urgency and had the respiratory therapist present within 5 min. to administer an epi breathing treatment. It is very powerful and shrinks the swelling very quickly to help him to breathe. Also, Tye was given steroids. They had us hang out for 3 hours to make sure Tye did not react from the strong medicine in the breathing treatment. Since Saturday he has been slowly feeling better but is far from 100%. We made an appointment with the surgeon to answer last minute questions and take a look at him to see if he was well enough for surgery. Apparently, it is the decision of the anesthesiologist but his surgeon thought he would be okay. They may have to give him breathing treatments before and/or after the surgery to help with the swelling. The breathing tube could irritate the vocal cords where the swelling occurs. My mom got in with no problems today and was help from the get go. We have to be at the hospital at 8:45 tomorrow morning and the actual surgery is scheduled at 10:45. It will take about 2 hours before we will see him...1 hour for the surgery and the rest to prepare him and some time to recover. We will keep everyone updated on how everything is going. Thanks for all the happy thoughts!!!