Our First Night

We have offically been moved into the surgical recovery ward. Skyler is resting now but he did wake up in a large amount of pain about 9:15pm and in a lot of stress. They used the epideral and a dose of Valium to help ease his pain.

I can't even properly express the relief I feel right now. Waiting for him to go through surgery was a horrible nightmare one I am praying I never have to go through again. I feel like just the fact that I am sitting right next to him as he snores and dreams of purple clouds is the greatest miracle I have had in my life to date (I have a feeling there will be more great miracles soon). No matter your religion or lack there of I am not going to hold back my feelings on this matter. I know that my Heavenly Father has been watching over us through this whole ordeal with two eyes open the whole time. I have felt his comfort wash over me when my grief threatened to consume me, and I continue to feel the peace that only the Holy Ghost can bring. At first I was thinking this was going to be a day by day thing but its not right now it is a minute by minute thing. Everytime he moves I jump to his side worried he is going to be panicked since he has yet to realize where he is and what is happening. When he moves he cries because he is so much pain. These next 24 hours are going to be the hardest I think as far as pain goes and managing it. I know that I can do this though, I know that my family can do this.

Morning: We made it through the night. It is always hard the first night. Someone was coming in like every 30 mins. to check something or adjust something so sleep did not really happen. He is doing great he is awake and watching TV. His pain is good he has figured out how to use his drug button and they have become best friends.

my best friend button

Today we have some goals.
1. To get out of bed and walk four times
2. he has to breath in this little tube thing to excersise his lungs and get more of that sedated feeling gone.
3. To poop. We really want him to poop because then the tube can come out of his nose and he can begin to eat but really this might not happen until tomorrow morning.
and 4. He has a touch of a fever and we want that to go away. It is normal to have one after surgery but it should resolve itself today.

Once again thank you for all your prayers and support.

Love
Leona

I have learned it will take a couple days to get the pathology back on his tumor and that we most likely will not hear from oncology until then. I have learned that depending on his tumor he may be admitted again to recieve chemo instead of it being an outpatience proccess.