The surgery is on

The doctor cleared Gerrit for surgery. Bruce, Gerrit, Samantha, and I will be leaving for Minneapolis in the morning. My parents are staying to take care of Aleah and Donovan. We were going to leave Samantha home with them but she has been having some separation anxiety lately and although she loves being around grandma we think she needs to be around us. Mom gets to watch out for Sadie instead.

We'll spend a little time at the Mall of America and go to our hotel and Gerrit is scheduled for surgery around 11:15 on Friday morning. His doctor today did say that he thinks Gerrit may have asthma so we're going to do some tests for that later in the month. We're hoping this surgery goes well like the last one and that Gerrit doesn't need any more surgeries for years to come-this will be his fifth one.