1 Month Post-Op

I can't believe it's actually been 2 weeks since I last updated! Time has flown by! 1 month ago right now they were just finishing up Charlie's surgery! Thankfully I haven't needed to update because nothing too exciting has been going on. He's been doing really really well! We've been going out a lot on weekends and evenings, he's been able to spend time with friends. Last weekend we went to Attleboro twice to hang out with a large group of our friends. Charles even played indoor mini golf, which was a good amount of moving around and standing up for a while! It tired him out some, but you wouldn't even be able to tell he just had brain surgery! He's pretty much living like he was before, not really a whole lot being different because of the surgery, he's just a bit more tired and I won't let him lift heavy things and he still can't drive.

We've also been out shopping a bunch looking for halloween costumes! My former roommate Laura is having a costume party on Halloween night as her and her fiance Pj's Jack & Jill. Charles has decided to be Dumbledore and I got a cute witch costume. We're making the Dumbledore costume from pieces... he got a large black robe (though he wanted purple we couldn't find one that fit), we ordered a long white beard and wig, and a WB Licensed Dumbledore hat. He got a big ring and a necklace and I ordered him a cheap wand which looked WAY better in the picture online.. I'm sad about that... We just need to get him some cheap glasses and see about a few more details and we should be good to go! :)

Yesterday Charles said to me that his vision in his right eye was just about perfect! The best it's been in a while. He said he'd never have known there was anything wrong with it. He just needs a new Rx for his contacts and he thinks he'd be seeing perfectly. AWESOME!!!! :)

He's left a couple messages with work about being scheduled for the beginning of next month. He just called again this morning, so he hasn't heard anything back yet. I believe he told them he could work every other day for the first 2 weeks. I'm still really worried about it draining his energy a lot, I'll worry about his safety and well-being. But... he's still got another 2 weeks until then and hopefully by then I won't be as worried!

Charles is still planning on sending out Thank You cards to everyone who has sent him a Get Well card :) They're all over our livingroom!! It was lovely to receive them all.

Let me know if there's anything else you want updates on, I can't think of anything at the moment. So I'll leave you with some photos of Charles and Emily that I took not long after we got him home from the hospital. He couldn't bend down to pet her so I put her on his lap and she happily stayed to be petted. They're both adorable :)

<3 Sue W.