pre-op

we had ben's pre-op appt today which means it's almost time for his surgery. yeah!! it has been long awaited and much needed. he's pretty much in constant pain, so hopefully this will help. i know it won't help right away, but hopefully it will finally start to feel better. the good news, if you want to call it that, is he shouldn't be deploying. the dr was saying it could very well take up to atleast 6 months for his shoulder to heal, which puts him into october or november at the earliest to deploy and his unit is leaving before that. but again, that will depend on how much the dr needs to do once he gets in there. the dr is expecting to have to attach the lubrium (cartilage i think) to the bone with tacks, but he won't know for sure until he gets in there and gets a better idea of what's wrong. so if he does end up doing that it's going to be a long recovery, hence no deployment for the time being. so i guess that is the good news. chances are good that he'll still end up over there at some point, we just don't know when. i pray that it's never, but it's the army and i don't always get my way. but anyway, so his surgery is next thursday, june 5th (which will actually be wednesday afternoon in the states). i'll let ya'll know how it goes, but until then it wouldn't hurt to keep ben in your prayers. we've already talked to the branch president about having someone come over to give him a blessing before hand. i'm not too worried, and i'm sure everything will go fine. so let's all hope for the best.