Mike had his surgery for spinal fusion on Wednesday Jan 9th at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. His curvature had progressed to 130 degrees which was causing problems with breathing and pain. Although his surgery was somewhat delayed by his need for heart surgery (see other articles) we remained hopeful that the doctors would be able to gain a fair amount of correction.

The surgery started at 8:00 am and took all day with Michael not getting in to recovery until 7:30 that night. His face was bloated (from the long time in the surgery) but otherwise was in excellent shape.  We were estatic at the amount of correction that the surgeon (Dr. Dorman) was able to achieve. His curvature was reduced from 130 degrees to 30 degrees W O W