Day 481 - Sep 22, 2009

Well, we are back in the hospital tonight. We had to be be here at 2pm to begin the admitting process and all has went well so far. This time the doc put the order in before we got here that I stay here with Kevin all night so here I am. I have my little cot made up and our favorite therapist Pam brought me some of that egg crate foam stuff to add a little cushion to this hard thing.

And speaking of Pam...Kevin and I worked on him being able to say "HI PAM" when he saw her and he did it today. Pam comes out more like Pan, but it's the attempt that counts, right?. He sure loves her lots and I have a feeling it's mutual ;-)

So tomorrow the surgery is scheduled for 8am. I will try to come on here and post an update as soon as I can. They are planning to revise his cranioplasty and graft his trach site and the wound vac in his lower abdomen area. Oh - and he will have Botox in his arm again.

It looks like we will be coming back because there are a couple of more spots that need done, but that's ok.

Oh - and I forgot to tell you that at this point they don't plan to cut Kevin's hair while performing the surgery! Have you ever heard of anything like that?! They are just going to cut along the same scar, where the hair doesn't grow, and then pull the flap down - hair and all! Amazing, huh? The doc was blunt and told Kevin that he really looks better with hair and we both appreciated his honesty as Kevin's head is just covered in scars. The funny thing is that we refrained from getting his hair cut at all in the past month or so because we thought it was going to be shaved so today I had to take Kevin for a haircut. It was just so long!

And now I am going to sign off and watch the rest of Starsky and Hutch with Kevin. Wish us luck tomorrow...