High Spirits

He's baaaack!

I walked into the ICU today and was greeted with a hearty wave and "Hi sweets!" A few seconds later Dave informed me that he now has a "flip-top head". He apparently asked to see his incision and was quite impressed.

A few minutes after that, his surgeon came it to look at the drains, so I also got to see the incisions. Not for the weak stomach, but it's not nearly as bad as I had envisioned it. It is, however, considerably longer than the nurse had told me. It's going to leave an impressive scar. In total, he has 3 incisions, two of which are about 2 inches long. The larger one is about 8-10 inches long. The surgeon was very pleased with what he saw and he proceeded to remove 7 of the 9 drains. I had to turn away, that was kind of gross. The last two drains will come out tomorrow or Monday. He also said that Dave will NOT require skin grafting after all! They will simply stitch the incision closed and there will only be a few lines to show where he was operated on.

Dave was in excellent spirits all day long and even sat in the chair around noon time. He read his book for a while until the book "got heavy" and had to stop. He tried to listen to Ben's MP3 player, but he discovered that there were only a handful of songs programmed into it, so I'll have to bring him mine tomorrow instead. He'll have a better selection and he'll also have FM radio if he wants to listen to his favourite morning show. Unfortunately, he's going to have to continue getting his hockey scores second hand for the time being.

He was very happy to hear all of your messages and wanted me to thank you all for caring so much about him and thank you all for the support you all offered to our family. We are truly in debt to you all.

I asked him if he would like visitors when he gets out of the ICU and he said "sure!" When I asked if he wanted me to limit the number of visitor per day, he said that would be a good idea, I should limit it to 50 visitors per day. Sounds like Dave's back in fine form (at least psychologically). Physically he's on the mend. He's weak, but he'll make it... that's all that counts.