Seeing the Light...finally

It's hard to believe that the second surgery has come and gone...yesturday Wild Bill was wheeled in around 8am...

Bill was feeling anxious obviously but was in good spirits.
Monday evening Bill's vitals were stable and he was eating, drinking and talking it up. So we were glad to see this before he went into to surgery.

Here he is going in for surgery.

We were able to see the surgeon before he took Bill into surgery and he said, "hopefully this won't be another 13 hours". Not cool. To kill time we went to the cafeteria for breakfast and coffee. The Smiths joined my mom, adam, and I so that was very nice. Adam and I decided to kill some time on haight street while my mom and patty took a nice walk and warren got caught up on some Planet Earth episodes. Around 1:30 we went to catch on Bill's status and the lady at the desk said that they were 82% done...not quite sure how she came up with this figure...so after some mathematical breakdowns we figured that BIll had about 1 hour 12 minutes and 48 seconds left...come to find out we were off....way off. Oprah and Dirty Jobs kept us busy for a few hours but by 6:00pm we were getting antsy. At this point one of the nurses came by and said that she had set up Bill's bed in ICU and he would be done with surgery in about a half hour! So around 6:30pm Bill was wheeled by the ICU waiting room where we were and one of the doctors said that everything went great!
We waited for about 15 minutes so that we could talk to the surgeon about the surgery. Dr. Shugrue came in the waiting room and gave us a summary on the surgery and the future.
He said that the surgery went a lot better than what they were expecting and that they got rid of 90% of the entire tumor. They took out 4 times the amount of tumor than the first surgery, which is pretty hard to believe. He also mentioned that Bill's tumor was hands down the biggest tumor that any of them have ever seen in this area! Bill will have to go through some radiation treatments to get rid of the rest of the tumor but the surgeon said that he set the tumor back about 3 decades :) We were so glad to hear great news finally and can't thank the surgeons, friends and family that have been thinking about us and praying for us throughout this nightmare...and last night it feels as though we have finally woke up! I have come to the conclusion that I took the first 25 years of my life somewhat for granted and it's events like these that make you stop and think and appreciate what you have been given and learn to grow from the experiences you go through.
PS. The surgeon said that he has 8 hours of the first surgery filmed and the entire second surgery filmed so y'all better get ready for The Return of Wild release party!