My plan for a good update has yet to happen... sorry :( Stress and fatigue and laziness and Stargate are my excuses! I just wanted to add a couple things that I thought people would be interested to know.

He's off all his new meds basically. He took his last steroid yesterday morning so hopefully that will help him sleep better at night which was something he had problems with the last time he was on the steroids. He also hasn't taken any of his heavy duty pain meds in the last couple days which is awesome! He's just been treating any pain with tylenol and hasn't even been using the ice pack much if at all. All good news!

His insision is kind of yukky looking with some scabbing and some dried blood that we haven't touched since the operation, not wanting to bother with anything (whether that's good or not I'm not sure?) it definitely looks like it's healing now! It looks much more healed than it did a few days ago! And there is no oozing of any kind, so I don't think there's any infection or leaky brain fluid or anything... keep your fingers crossed that it continues to heal well!!

His appointment to remove the sutures is next Tuesday, which will be 15 days from the operation. They had first suggested today for an opening but we agreed Tuesday would be better in case they sent us home to return again in a week because it wasn't healed enough! That would have stunk.

He's been out a few times in the last couple of days. Sunday before his mom returned to Albany we went to Target for a couple things and we went out for dinner. It definitely tired him out, but he enjoyed it! Of course, the power cart thing at Target wasn't charged which was a dissapointment, because it was a good opportunity to get away with driving one! Haha. Though I think the patrons AND merchandise of Target were safer with that not happening ;) Yesterday we went to The Christmas Tree Shop and to get some cider and donuts at an apple orchard (Oh the things he can get away with because I love him so...). And today we took a walk, probably a half mile round trip to so, just down the road and back. It was good for us both :) Of course I do my share of encouraging him to go out and harassing him not to over-do it! He's not a cooped-up type person and it's driving him crazy! He wants to do a lot more than he's capable. But he's going ok taking it in stride I think. He decided when we should turn around walking, and he decided not to attempt to go apple picking this weekend with some friends because that would be too much.

I'm hoping my parents will come visit us Saturday and we can go out to dinner for my Dad's birthday. And even if that doesn't happen, we're going to go on a date sometime in the next week anyway, since on Tuesday we'll have been together for a year and a half! :-D It seems like a long time but not all at once. We've known each other for going on 6 years and we've been through A LOT in this past year and a half! I wouldn't trade crazy old broken Charles Horn for anything! :) And I know he feels the same. Yatta!