feeling the love - day 3

It's amazing that less than 48 hours after surgery, we have a brand new boy. Ted slept about 10 hours last night and woke up rather chatty. He even gave me some attitude. He napped while I went home to shower and then we had a very special visitor . . . SOPHIE!

They were really happy to see each other. Ted was up and playing and having fun.

We went for a walk to the Play Room. But it was closed.

So we walked back. Somehow Sophie got to be Ted's hand holder.
Which probably wasn't the safest b/c he's still a little wobbly.

Ben and I let Sophie look at the aquarium on the peds floor

And then took her on a date to the cafeteria.

 That didn't last too long for me b/c Ted had one of his "fits". He worked himself out of it and we walked back to the playroom to play.

Grandma, Gary Pap and Sophie left and we had a steady stream of visitors. Ted was pretty much shot so most people didn't even see him. He said, "Mom, please no more visitors." So, sorry to those of you who came and just hung out with Ben in the waiting room. 

Visitors Today:
Chad & Brandi Weekley - my cousin and her husband

Jeremy Slider - my cousin

Grandma & Gary Pap

Sophie

Bethany Underdonk - my dear friend

Nathaniel & Gina Lutyens - Bridgeport YL Staff

Andrew Archer - Bridgeport High School student

Greg & Cheryl Blaney - long time friends

Greg Isaacs - drove all the way from Charleston.
Last time he was in the hospital was the day Ted was born.
I think this locked him into Ted always!

Jay Conaway - Ted's small group leader at church

Allison Ferrell - my brothers hunting buddy's wife

Cameron & Sarah King - YL College directors

Whitney Snyder - YL leader and nurse at Ruby

He took a great nap and then woke up ready to rock and roll.

We spent some time in the playroom again.

Played with some new toys and visited with our 4 evening visitors

Ate dinner he actually asked for

Got that left eye open some - although the rest of his face has swelled quite a bit today

And got his fluid IV removed. Whitney (one of our YL leaders and a nurse at Ruby)
stopped by and showed her stellar tape removal skills! Fun to have her do that.

Ted has finished all of his IV medicines and is on all liquid medicines. He seems to be doing really well with it so far with managing pain. We'll see how we do through the night. He's eating well and drinking more. We only had one episode of nausea today and got that under control quickly. Today he talked to us, laughed, told us some jokes and made his opinion known. It felt g.o.o.d. We'll be sprung from here by Friday for sure.

You know, we have felt so loved. Truly. Family. Friends. Leaders. Committe. Church. Charleston. Morgantown. Fairmont. Places in between. Gifts. Time. Thoughtfulness. Seriously, thank you. Words do not even express the graditude. And really, it has everything to do with feeling loved and prayed over. I can't even tell you what that means to us. 

If you know someone that's in the hospital, offer to help them out. And if you don't, go through the drive through at McDonald's and drop a couple of bucks in the thing for Ronald McDonald House.

One last surgery note that someone asked about:
The blood vessels that were across the cyst on his brain were, in fact, important to blood flow around the brain. However, the doctor did not have to disconnect or reinforce them. The vessels were so stretched by the cyst that when it drained some, they laid nicely where they are supposed to. So nothing had to be done at all.

Ted is resting watching "The Jungle Book" that we borrowed from the Play Area. We had a great, great day!