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Hello everyone, here we are post op day 1 officially now. Brian is doing great. His pain is much more under control now. He just dozes a lot then wakes up for more medicine. I'm so sorry I haven't been able to call out or take any of your calls. We aren't allowed to have cell phones we can only do text messaging while in ICU. As soon as I speak w/ his surgeon I will step out and make some calls. I just am scared to miss his call if I tie my phone up. The ding dong hasn't spoken to me yet since the surgery which is pretty poor. I've only heard from his 2nd yr resident on a 3 minute phone call. Our nurse today said he's going to take care of it and make sure I get a call soon from him. I'd kinda like to know what he did in my husbands skull for 8 hours!!! So back to the boy, he's doing much better this morning. He did ok through the night. It was a long night for both of us. His blood sugar went up (they say that's normal) and w/ his hourly sugar checks and hourly neuro "who and where are you" checks and his hourly pain administration it was a busy night. We had a precious nurse so THANK you for praying for that one. We have another good one today so we've had great nursing care. We are just waiting on a bed now and they'll move us to a normal neuro unit for the rest of his recovery. They said it might be a while we just have to wait for a bed to come available. Brian's spirits are ok today. He's very alert when his Fentanyl wears off, post dosing he's pretty groggy and gets to sleep. He's disappointed about the loss of hearing I can tell. None of the docs here are addressing it, they are more excited that they saved the facial nerve which is very important but Bri needs to address the hearing at some point. Its a big loss that we need to talk about.
Ok, well half way through this his neuro surgeon called me finally. Good report. He said it all went well on his end. He said the tumor they left behind is so small a lot of times it will go ahead and die on it's own and never need anymore intervention other then annual screenings to monitor it. He said the pain Bri's feeling and where is normal. He said the spinal fluid will leak out some during surgery and air gets around the brain and will cause that frontal pain but it should deminish quickly. So that's good. Ok, I know this post is sketchy and scatter brained but that's where my brain is today. :) I have some calls to make now so thanks again and love you all.