Update
My wife is out of surgery after 11 hours. They are bandaging her now which will take an hour and then move her to ICU. They will keep her sedated until tomorrow.
The surgeon said all went as expected and there were no surprises.
It has been a long day that began at 3 am to be here at 5:30.
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