Straightenin' Up...

Saturday

Brad’s had an interesting day. He was kinda depressed earlier in the day, but got outside in the afternoon and really seemed to enjoy it. I recorded him throwing the stick for Tobi, which I’ll post as a a link in a minute. He seems pretty good tonight - spent $20 on amazon.com mp3 downloads and is listening to his purchases.

He’s only taken pain medicine once today (to my knowledge), and he’s planning to go on the boat with us in the morning. We’ll see how that goes….

Friday

Brad slept all morning after the restless night. Rhonda finally woke him up at noon and tried to get him interested in x-box, but he doesn’t care anything about it(?).

I just now texted Brad and he said he was doing well. He got the garbage cans in and he picked up one of Tobi’s toys….small victories.

Thursday night

…was a repeat of Wednesday night. Better than before, but not exactly restful.

Pain Free For a While

When I got home today, Rhonda said Brad just got up from bed and said “Hey, what’s going on? I feel pretty good!”. He was pain-free, all of the sudden. He was walking around like normal and didn’t seem to hurt at all.

Some folks from work provided dinner tonight (Thanks! it was great!) and stayed a few minutes to visit. He didn’t hurt the whole time they were here. Afterwards, we walked around some and he started hurting a little in a different place, but nothing like before.

I’m not getting my hopes up yet, but I hope he’s turned the corner.

from Rhonda:

It seems that there’s a good day, then a bad day, then a good day… He has been taking less pain medicine and asking for it less frequently, which is good, but he is still in a great deal of pain. Last night, we didn’t get up as much as we have previously. He just would have me turn him over from side to side periodically during the night. He is a little depressed, which is understandable. I took the dressing off of the incision this morning and it all looks good.

Same Ol’ Same Ol’

He’s getting pretty discouraged during his second week of bed/chair rest. This is not what an 18-year-old envisions for the summer after graduation.

Tuesday

I worked all day yesterday for the first time in a week, then was out at a company dinner until 9:30, so I wasn’t around much to observe him. Rhonda and Brad had another restless night, moving around the house at random trying to get comfortable. He has improved for sure and is in less pain, but at times, the pain is still quite a lot to bear.

No Medicine

No medicine today since 3:15am. It’s 11am now….