Morning

Ethan is sleeping at the moment which is good. He threw up about every hour throughout the night. Some of this was expected (any brain injury causes this) but the quantity has been more than expected. He is taking Zofran for nausea, but it has not made any difference. They gave him Benadryl around 9 AM which basically puts him to sleep.

There was swelling in the occipital lobe even before they started so retractors were used and this has most likely caused some bruising of the brain which explains the continued slow pupil reaction (sluggish but improved), blurred vision and the lack of vision to the right field. (They went in on the back left side). This may go away as swelling goes down? (Will keep him on steroids an extra day). Doctors are ducking direct questions about this, so it is my guess they are more concerned then they lead on.

MRI is scheduled for this morning to see what it all looks like inside. This is a regular procedure post brain surgery and they are expecting to see occipital swelling, bruising, and no sign of Gandof (tumor). Hopefully he goes toca regular room (not ICU) after MRI so his younger brother can visit.

The second time he woke he rattled of a bunch of questions like; "where am I? what's going on? what are these tube doing?. ... ect." then fell right to sleep. This let me know straight away he was doing good.

Later he woke and said "well I am alive!"He was concerned that his mom was cold, wanted to watch a movie with Tabi, and asked if his friends had been by.

He did asked for donuts again too. :)

It is expected to be a five day recovery and chemotherapy is expected to start again in 3 to 5 weeks in order to clean up anything missed.

Thanks for all the support and prayers!!