Day 2

I arrived back at the hospital before 6:00 am. Jason was very nervous and anxious about having brain surgery. He received a blessing from his father, my dad & Brad just before the nurses came to take him down to surgery. We all said our goodbyes, and walked out to the elevator with him, and went to the waiting room. Immediately the nurse came back & told us that the anesthesiologist called in sick & we would need to wait until we could get somebody there to knock him out. We went back up to his room, where he had even more time to worry, but luckily they were ready to go within 30 minutes.
The surgery lasted about 4 hours, and the Doctor says that everything went well. Once he got back up to the ICU, they let me go back to be with him, and he was obviously in a lot of pain, mostly in his left eye which was swelling up like a baseball. The nurse had a hard time finding a pain medication that would help, and it was hard for me to see him in so much pain. The only thing that seemed to help was for me to hold a cold rag over his eye and apply some pressure. It will probably be a long recovery.