End of a long day

It has been a long, exhausting day for all of us. Micah had several periods of being awake this evening, but seems to be sleeping again for the night. David is staying with him at the hospital and I am at the Ronald McDonald house tonight. Micah has been talking a little bit, mostly to say, "I want water", but also answering yes and no appropriately to questions and a few other things. He looks much better than we had feared he might, with just a bit of swelling on the side of his head, but he still has an angry 8-10 inch wound beginning at his left ear and snaking across his scalp at the hairline. There is no bandage on it, and won't be, just a lot of antibacterial goop. 

He had a ventrical MRI tonight, which was a short test to make sure his ventricles are doing alright in his brain. He will have a longer, whole-brain MRI tomorrow sometime, which is normal post-op procedure. 

Thank you so much for the many ways you are caring for us--balloons, prayer shawls, care packages, cards, notes, emails, texts, visits and whatever else I'm leaving out. I am grateful this piece of our journey is over, but we know that some things are just beginning. Seeing him looking so good, and other than being extremely groggy (who wouldn't be after 5+ hours of ansethesia??), listening to our surgeon and epilepsy doctor's reports and hearing him talk again, when they removed tissue (about 1 square inch or so) so close to areas governing speech, we feel hopeful that this surgery has helped him.

Time to sleep.