January 24, 2013

Here I am again, up at 2:12 am, checking on the "baby" to watch him sleep and make sure he's still breathing. I probably should stop referring to him as the "baby"; so, from now on he'll go back to Matt. The upside of the blog now is that you can continue to get updates on Matt's progress and hear how things are going. The downside is that more of the family might be involved. It's not all about Matt anymore (sorry dear, your days of stealing the spotlight might be coming to end).

Last night, we played musical beds yet again. We have a total of 5 beds upstairs (2 twin bunk beds and a king), and with 6 people, only 3 of them were occupied. I have been worried to sleep with Matt in fear of rolling too close to his head or accidentally hitting him (which never happened before but you never know), so I've slept with each of the boys. Grandma Wendy also gets the pleasure of sharing a spacious twin to sleep with the other boy while Scotlyn sleeps in a 2'x2' space next to these beds on the floor, and Matt sleeps in the king all by himself (he did just have brain surgery, so we are cutting him some slack). Matt, kind of has his days and nights mixed up a bit, I know, back to the "baby" reference (last time, I promise!). He is up eating a bowl of cereal and reading the paper ( I hope this isn't his new habit. In his defense, he needed more pain meds.). He sleeps a lot through the day and is awake more toward the evening and at night. Yesterday he slept maybe 9 hours out of the 12 hours from 7am to 7pm. He did have a couple people stop by to say hello and chat. He will still start talking to you and close his eyes and doze off a bit mid sentence at times but for the most part hold a good conversation for about 5-10 minutes. He also ate really well; which shows that his appetite is finally coming back. He had a PB&J sandwich, chips, lots of gatorade, hawaiin punch, chocolate milk, and his mom made Goulash for dinner (it's one of his favorites and I've made it once since we've been married). He continued to stay in bed for the day and watch tv off and on but mostly slept.

Today I am returning back to work, a little worried to leave him, but I know his mom will take just as good care of him as I would if not better. She might even be a little bit more patient than I am, like, when he wants to put "a splash" of Diet Mountain Dew in his Gatorade (yuck) or mixing his chocolate milk and regular milk together because it has to have the right amount of chocolate. He actually has a taste thing right now where his mouth just feels yucky and he can't seem to quench his thirst (this is normal too) and water taste gross to him.

So, that was it for yesterday (big day, I know). Baby steps from here on out, but we are ecstatic that he is doing this well so soon. Today marks the one week anniversary, and I think one brain tumor in someone's life is enough. We can only go uphill from here for the rest of 2013 with a few little bumps and maybe a slight detour along the way.