"Easy surgery" date set

8:29am

Taylor has 2 surgeries coming up - one to insert a gold weight in his eyelid, and the other to transplant a muscle. The first is the easy one.

Yesterday, we set the eyelid surgery for October 23rd. We're going to the mountains to enjoy fall the weekend before, and wanted to wait until after the trip to do the surgery.

It's an out-patient thing, but Taylor will be under general anesthesia for the procedure. We won't find out until the evening before what time on the 23rd the surgery will start, so we may go to Gainesville the evening before. If we do, he'll be able to visit friends that attend UF. There is some risk involved in this procedure, but we're confident everything will go OK. There is a "1 in 10" chance the wrong weight will be used, so it may have to be repeated. They will tape different weights to his eyelid for Taylor to take on a test drive, then he will actually pick which one he wants to use.

We haven't set a date yet for the muscle transplant, but will likely wait until after the first of the year. Taylor is OK waiting a while, and we don't want anything to interrupt the holidays. And, there is still hope that the nerve may fire up. There is little chance, but we've seen the odds against Taylor before and it turned around, so there is no harm in waiting a little longer.

Taylor is still using the cane, but becomes less dependent on it all the time. It's there now more as a "just in case" prop than anything else. He walked a lot yesterday in rehab without the cane and did really well.