Today has been good. We were at the hospital early enough to have pizza and ice-cream again and enjoy the sunshine in Brunswick Street and then settled in the hospital room which felt more like a hotel room. The staff are very nice and the plastic surgeon came and spoke to us. We had thought the operation would take about 3 hours, but he said his part takes about 4 hours, so it would probably be about 8 hours in total which was a bit of a shock, but OK.

It sounds like quite a big deal with all of the work he has to do, making sure the bone doesn't die and reconnecting all sorts of things and getting skin grafts from his thigh and other things I don't remember. The success of the bone transfer stuff is about 97%, if it doesn't work it gets pretty complicated, but he wouldn't go into any detail about what that would mean.

He thinks that Simon probably won't be able to put any weight on his left leg until after the 20-30 weeks of chemo because the chemo drugs will be almost stopping it all from healing, this seems less frustrating because of the great job the chemo seems to be doing of killing the cancer. After the operation he will spend the night in intensive care.

I'm going up to see him at about 7am before the operation and will let you know how it goes as soon as I can.