Michael and Evo: Wingin’ It!

6:30 PM MST

More updates from TusconTucson. Seems that the prep is taking quite a while. This isn’t just some simple knock-out-let’s-go situation. He’s got a few parsecs of lines, drips and hoses inside of him now and is about to get an epidural. Guess those things take time.

The surgeon just spoke with Mike and said that this can go anywhere from four to eight hours. He fully expects to wind up having to take out a few important organs, like a kidney and probably the spleen, including a decent amount of the bowel.

At best, we’re looking at midnight before they stitch him up. They’ll likely keep him zonked until Saturday, so we won’t have anything else to report until then. So sleep well, think happy thoughts, and we’ll resume in the morning.

6:03 PM MST

Oh, how I love the marvels of modern medicine. We can wipe out smallpox, but we can’t figure out what the big hand and the little hand mean.

Joe has not been taken in for his procedure yet. He’s prepped. He’s ready. And 1.5 hours ago, Mike had been informed that he was in surgery. But Mike was just told that no, he hadn’t been taken yet and was still waiting.

Did I mention I hate waiting?

4:20. How appropriate for the time they start sticking tubes inside of him with all kinds of happy juice. It’s serendipity, I tell you.

Looks like we’re about to start. Cut straight, ya bastards!

Gang,

This afternoon AZ time, Joe goes under the knife. Time to get that little bastard out of there and to see what sort of a mess he’s made of things. Mike is headed down to Tucson and has promised to feed me information via cell phone as he receives it. I’ll in turn post things here on the blog to keep you all posted.

So direct all your positive energy toward Joe this afternoon and tonight. Now’s a good time to hit that donation button for the Kill Kuato fund on the upper left hand side of the page.

More as it comes in.

E.