A Peaceful Evening

Stew is recovering in his ICU suite, and doing so well. He has said some funny things, like his "hat hurts." He has a turban to keep the swelling down, and he does NOT like it! He has wiggled out of it a couple of times, but on it goes again. He is resting peacefully, and we are all "decompressing" after such a tumultuous, scary and very unpredictable 3 weeks. He is not a fan of our weenie dog, Kiki, so Tiffany thought it would be funny to put a stuffed one in bed with him at the hospital. What?! He isn't going to appreciate this when he wakes up. :)

There are really no words to thank you for all you have done. I haven't cooked a meal, I haven't stood alone, and I haven't turned to the right or the left without someone at my side to support my family. These are the types of things that you wonder in the back of your mind if you could really handle if it happened; one minute we were living life, the next minute, wondering how we would fight the mountain of a brain tumor. It has been a life-changing event for me personally, one that has filed down some rough edges of some things that just aren't worth worrying about in my life anymore.

Life is SO SHORT! No more nagging Stew about going too fast over speed bumps, :) :), I think I'll make him a few more meat loafs (ughhh...but perhaps for the sake of love I can endure them ocassionally!), I will clip the dog's nails before Christmas, and NEVER miss choir practice, (well, almost never). I will listen when he says to take my vitamins even though I always claim I am too busy to do stuff like that, and, above all, I will pray that I have another 28 years with this wonderful man.

Stew will be in the hospital for about a week, so more updates to come! Enjoy them with a cup of coffee and a heart of thankfulness!

Love,
Denise