Post Surgery

Upon arrival at IMC, dad was taken to the OR where the surgery was performed. The doc told us it would take about an hour and a half so we decided to go eat lunch. We hurried and ate and came back within an hour but dad's surgery ended up taking about 2 and a half hours. Of course we were all a little worried since it took longer than expected but when he returned from surgery the surgeon came and informed us of the outcome. Things went well. They removed a clot that was 2 cm thick on the right side of the brain and that spread the length of that whole side. (Side note-dad lost 2 coke cans full of blood during the surgery.) We went back to see him after he was settled and saw his bandaged head. Things seemed to be going well so we decided to go home and get some sleep. We returned the next morning around 9:00 and soon after the surgeon came in to check on dad. He said dad looked good and wanted to check a few more things. He put a finger in the corner of his eye and pressed, then said, "Grant I'm going to hurt you for a minute but if you can show me 2 fingers I'll leave you alone." Within a nano second he fired up 2 fingers and the surgeon stopped. He was responding and that was huge:) Later that day they tried to put in a central line on the left side of his chest but weren't successful due to dad's anatomy and bone structure. Between the CT scan, central line trial, surgery and x-rays dad was exhausted and it showed. We left for the evening in hopes he would be able to sleep without too many interruptions.