(Kieran)
Robert's surgery went ahead at nine thirty.
The secondary supply had been confirmed clean. Brennan had gone through everything twice before we started. New preparations. Fresh from sealed stock. Nothing from the primary cabinet anywhere near the table.
The surgery took four hours.
It was one of the harder cases I had done in a while. The scar tissue from the previous two operations had made the approach difficult in ways that the imaging had suggested but not fully prepared me for. There were moments where I had to stop and think carefully before moving. Where the margin between the right decision and the wrong one was very small.
But we got through it.
When I closed Robert up his vitals were stable. The repair had held. He was going to wake up in the ICU and it was going to
