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Thanks to you Veronica, Chantel, Chrissy, everyone, for your support and encouragement. Yes, it was a milestone but it wasn't so long ago that I was feeling so amazed that I could ride 10 miles across the Dumbarton Bridge and back. I still feel like a whimp that I'm not out more as Emma, at least in public. But that's cool. I love you all, really. XXOOXX, Emma

Congratulations and well done. Much better than me. I can only admire you. Best wishes. Chantel. X

Dear Emma, Congratulations on your endurance ride! Loved bicycling, but the most I rode was 2 miles each way to school and work. Your friend, Monica

My suspicions prior to my acquaintance undergoing the knife were right on point which I will get into here. We headed off to the hospital at 4:30 AM, arrived at 5:30 AM, admitted and shortly afterwards she was taken back for pre-surgery. About one hour later she was off to the OP, they had given her a sedative already (I was not given one at this point). There is a leaderboard that updates through the stages e.g. prep, in room, closing, out of OR. She told me ahead of time the surgery was scheduled for 4-5 hours, I said it's more likely to be seven or eight hours. Well they told her right before going in, 8 to 10 hours and her friends who came to support her thought 5 hours and were not really prepared for that. She went into the OR at 7 AM, came out at just before 7 PM, surgeon talked to us and said there were complications but would not tell us which I can understand but surmise a few things. After the surgeon talked to us he picked up his backpack and seemed to be heading out, I was surprised that he was not staying to check up on her. I had some reservations about the surgeon as he only had done six of these surgeries before, told her this but she was head strong about pushing forward. One of the issues is she is on social security, lives on just over one thousand dollars a month. I can understand this but if it were me would be concerned that the surgeon did not have more than six surgeries prior. I am sure the complication reasons will be told today, one thought is they had issues with blood supply (long story), another a skin graph was needed and couple this with his original estimate which extended past 8 hours.