Fully Alive…Ready to Smile

posted by erin on Oct 30

Okay, this post isn’t actually about that, but I guess it could be.  Dad didn’t get out of recovery until 6:30 a.m. when they took him to his room.  By that point they had managed to get the pain under control and he had settled down a bit.  Contrary to what was first expected, they did not have to replace jaw bone with shin bone (yay), but he did have some teeth removed and part of his tongue replaced with tissue from his leg.  He was communicating quite a bit today by way of pen and paper and even though he was dozing in and out a lot, he was coherent.  By this evening, though, he was getting a little more agitated I suppose because of the pain.  The nurse who came to talk to my mom said that they see a lot of these surgeries through that ward and in comparison to a lot of them he was doing really well.  So that was comforting.  His tongue was nice and pink and the blood was flowing through where they had reconnected the new tissue.  They say he’s on his way to a good recovery.  This is all very good news.  My mom said that there hasn’t been a doctor in to see them yet so she still doesn’t know all the gory details.  Hopefully each day will continue to improve.