January 24, 2013 - Update #2

I am going to try and post on the blog during the evening in hopes that we will start sleeping through the night. Today was my first day back to work and it went very well. I have to rely on Wendy now to give me updates through out the day or I'm not going to have anything to post for you all to read. Don't worry, I'm not offended if our life becomes boring to you. I realize it's not dramatic enough to be a Lifetime movie, but this is all the drama I want to deal with this year.

 The boys made cookies today with Grandma Wendy while I was at work and daddy was sleeping.

"Not tonight dear, I had a craniotomy"

Our friends, Jeff and Deann, had this made (the top picture) and sent it to Matt. He doesn't look thrilled in the picture but he smiled when he read it. In the bottom picture, Matt's cousin is part of this website called Chive On, I think. They have these "contests" where peeps take pics of themselves with a Chive On shirt and try to make it on their website. Well, they must have like this one because Matt made it to the website (he also looks thrilled in this picture too). 

Today was just an ok day for Matt. He was up quite a bit more, I heard, but was in a lot more pain and had more of a constant headache. His mom rated his pain level a 4 out 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best). He can't seem to quench his thirst no matter what he tries to drink. He put in an order today for: Cactus Cooler, Country Time Lemonade, Sprite, and de-caffinated Ice Tea. He is trying all these along with his 20 glasses of chocolate milk he downs each day. I talked to a friend of ours who is a wound care specialist, and she will be coming over on Sunday to remove his staples (sorry Jen, we can't wait any longer than day 10). She will also be bringing some Lanacane in case it starts to hurt. He's a little nervous about this while I think this will be really cool to watch. I hope to be more interesting and have more to report to you tomorrow.