This morning Mike, Kathy, Patrick and Bonnie awoke and made our way to the University of Michigan Cardiovascular center. It was a cold and dark winter morning in Ann Arbor and the conversation was detail oriented. Wearing his tiger shirt and flannel pajama pants, Mike entered the hospital with wife on one arm, and sister on the other and a strong, brave and cheerfull look on his face. Patrick then went back and picked up the rest of the contingent. We all got to take our turns going back to see him in the Pre-operative area......and of course he found it necessary to point out his young student nurse! After an emotional and heartfelt visit, we left him in his very capable surgeons hands slightly before 7am. The surgery is expected to take 5-7 hours, so we are biding the time until we hear something.
This is something we have all been anticipating for a long time and there is a certain amount of relief that the day has arrived, even though we have not slept much and are pretty nervous (we can't even remember how to play Presidents and A**holes). Mike is such a special person to his family and friends, and we know that you all want to keep up to date on how he is doing and whats going on. We are hoping that you will be able to use this blog to do just that. I will be updating this several times a day with how Mike is, how we are all doing, and later with some "straight-from-the-horses-mouth" Mike Nolan quotes.
Thank you all for caring so much.....The Nolans