{NOTE: This was originally published on Vanessa’s CarePage. We are copying all those posts here to have her story in one place that all can access. We are back-dating the posts to match when she originally published the post there, and are marking the blog post here with Vanessa as the author, as these words that follow are her own.}

Posted Feb 16, 2008 11:03pm

per Billy. – Vanessa is doing well. Her surgery went longer than expected but better to do it right than fast. She is currently in the ICU at St Luke West, so she can be monitored around the clock for precaution. Hopefully tomorrow evening or Monday they will be able to move her to a regular room where she will be for about 3 days. Thanks for all the prayers.

{NOTE: captions below are from Vanessa later:)}

getting our game face on! :)

taking a peek at the crazy pictures we took

me & mombo

let's get this show on the road!

my sisters jess & christina passing the time

billy & dan chowing down

amy lou & jess in the waiting room

it's finally time for my family to leave! get there at 6:30 in the morning and leave at 11:15 at night!

billy excited to be going home