January 27, 2013

These posts will most likely start being updated weekly unless we have news that we feel we just need to share. All in all, Matt is doing very well. His days seem to go back and forth. He'll have a good day then wake up feeling not so hot the next day. That's how the weekend was. Saturday went great then Sunday came and he woke up feeling nauseas and had a headache. He is getting his full appetite back, but wants things that we don't have in the house and need to go out and get and nobody wants to tell this patient "no" just yet. Soon though, this may come to a stop. He's been up and walking around the house a lot more. I think he might be getting a bit cabin feverish. We're still waiting to see if there are any changes to his personality. So far, we don't see any dramatic change. He says noises get to him more but that might be from not being fully recovered yet. He had his staples come out on Sunday. Overall, this wasn't too much of a traumatic event. The most painful part was when a staple got hold of his hair and that was pulled out. We have been told to put an ointment called Bacitraycin on it 3x's a day and massage the scar tissue. That's what the last picture is and this doesn't hurt him which is a good thing. He actually has no feeling around this area because of the air/fluid mixture. This week sometime he will be heading back to have his blood drawn once more to check his sodium level. This was a request from the surgeon when we left the hospital, just to be on the safe side.