And here we are....

Hello to our lovely family & friends.... ALL OF YOU GUYS are making me cry right now... But it's all good, it's a good kinda cry, the one coming straight from the heart from seeing SO MUCH support, prayers, and wonderful words from all of you.... THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the comments, the emails, the phone calls, etc!!! We don't know what we would do without all of you guys in our lives...Right now here it's almost 11:30 pm and I am here sitting on a beautiful computer room at the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald's House... This place is AMAZING!!! It's a house/hotel type thing sponsored by McDonald's and several other people and entities..unbelievable.... brand new (just opened in July), super clean, modern, very cheerful, all decorated for Halloween and super comfortable too... It would be very nice if any of you guys could please go to McDonald's in the near future and order anything to eat or drink...that would be wonderful... That would help us support this great place here and others throughout the world in some way or another...thank YOU!!!

Ok, so tomorrow on 10/30 Luca's surgery is scheduled for 8:30am L.A. time... we need to be there by 6:30am to prep him, etc...They are going to put him on a hospital gown, put a little ID bracelet on him and he's ready to go... we'll take pictures of all this because it's all happy times...or another moment of "Good Times With Luca"..... ;o) The "only" difficult thing will be to keep him without food on his stomach for quite some time... but they told me they can give him a "happy pill" so he can relax a little and get less nervous if he's too hungry while he waits... And we don't like to see Luca hungry, things can get ugly if he is...eheheh...

Another VERY difficult moment I hear, it's when we need to hand him to the nurse that will take him to the operating room... I am a bit afraid of that moment to be honest... but I need to keep strong... I am surprising myself actually and I am keeping A LOT stronger than I thought... Thank YOU for those praying for me to keep strong, it's totally working.... at least for now... eheheh ;o)

Today they did all kinds of exams, blood tests and all (I already cried right there just seeing him cry with that needle on his little tiny arm... heart breaking, but then again, I was strong after that...)... everything went great, he's been REALLY healthy all these 8 1/2 months so this helps a lot... so we are good to go... He should be in for 4-5 hours and then he goes to the CTICU where we'll be able to finally see him....but the nurses and doctors should come out every hour or so to give us updates... These for sure will be the LONGEST 4-5 hrs of our lives....

Tomorrow night Gaetano and I will sleep close to him at the ICU... I am sure we'll find a couple minutes to update this blog again so you guys can know what's going on...

Kisses and lots of love to all.... Again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the love and support!!

VERSAO BRASILEIRA... Herbert Richards....heheheh...isso parece filme de sessao da tarde no Brasil, ne'???ehehheh.... Aqui vai uma pequena traducao mto rapida pra aqueles q nao entenderam meu bla bla bla acima.... ;o) Primeiramente SUPER OBRIGADA por todo o apoio e suporte q temos recebido de TODOS voces... isso nos tem feito mto bem e continuamos fortes devido ao carinho de todos, das mensagens, emails e telefonemas q temos recebido... Amanha a cirurgia do Luca sera' as 8:30 da manha horario aqui de Los Angeles, vamos ter q chegar la' as 6:30... Vai ser "so'" duro mante-lo sem comer por tanto tempo...A cirurgia deve durar umas 4-5 horas....serao as 4-5 horas mais lonnnnnnnnngas de nossas vidas!!! Depois disso ele vai pra UTI e fica la' por uns 2 dias... Eu e Gaio vamos dormir por la' pertinho dele na UTI amanha e depois com certeza.... mas vamos achar um tempinho pra escrever um pouquinho neste blog pra voces saberem as noticias... Um beijo ENORME pra todos com mto amor!!!