million dollar friday!

leaking brain onto my pillow, and you can see the drainage tube running across my forehead

so i don't remember too much about friday.  i know they took out the catheter, they took the drainage tube out of my head.  the girl that did that had a funky accent so i asked where she was from - south africa!  but she did not know dan hugo.  i suggested that she look him up!

you can see the tube there at the bottom

once those tubes were all out, i felt way better.  my nurse was Miles and he was a nice guy.  although he scared the crap out of me one time when i was sleeping and he knelt down next to me to wake me up and when i opened my eyes he was not eric! i jumped and was like AAKK!!

the PT came for a visit.  i sat i a chair, i ate some apple sauce. i had to sit in the chair for 30 minutes and it was a really long time, i really wanted to lay back down. i think i went to the bathroom.  we laughed at the pvc pipe commode chair, eric taking mental notes on how me might be able to make one of those someday.

grown up potty chair

then i was moved into the normal neuroscience part of the hospital.  i can't remember getting into a different bed, or how that all happened, but it happened.

apparently this is how i got to the normal floor, totally forgot about this guy. 

i remember being pushed in the bed, or a bed at least and thinking, wow, this little tour of the hospital is not at all like the "i just had a baby" parade you get to go on with your baby burrito when you leave the birthing suite and go to your recovery room.
regardless, i think i was happy to get to my room.  i can't remember.  again, a private room and i could have overnight guests!
i had already told them i was done with the leg puffers, they said that was fine as long as i got up to walk around some and made sure to sit in a chair although it would be up to my nurses after a while since some of them are sticklers for the leg puffers.
i think i ordered some food - scrambled eggs, toast, fruit maybe.  oatmeal?  i felt really quite remarkable!
i got to look in the mirror and see that my hair was all still there and that i wasn't all deformed.  the surgeon said he spent over an hour or so making sure to put my forehead back on right!
so friday was spent chilling, resting, eating apple sauce, taking medication through IVs, peeing.  ya know.  that type of stuff.  eric and christie took turns sitting with me, i can't believe their patience and willingness to gel in and gel out so often!  i couldn't watch TV, just having it on was too much stimulation, so i did a lot of laying there, which was so nice.  
that night as we settled in to go to sleep, i just curled up but eventually i wound up in a bit of pain in the noggin.  more pain than i had been feeling.  plus i was feeling just overall a little bit like ass.  i can't remember if we had taken some laps around the unit earlier in the day, but with the sitting, the applesauce eating and everything, it looked like i had done too much and it was starting to show.
after being a sleep for a bit, i woke up so thirsty i couldn't control it.  i chugged 3 big cups of water one right after the other.  i kind of knew that was a bad idea but i was so thirsty i couldn't help it.
and then it came back up.
again.
and again.
i can't remember the nurse's name that night, but he was super nice and it seemed like he spent the whole night in our room with us.  every two hours or so.  i did not feel good at all.
my head didn't hurt really but wow, i felt like ass.
and then, like at 4 or 5 or 6am, one of those times, he gave me some sort of medication that was 100% crack or something because i instantly felt better and drifted off to sleep.  aaahh!!!!  amazing!