Lesson 1.1

Today was an utter disaster. May I repeat disaster. I woke up and the first thing on my agenda was to talk my father into getting a dog. My siblings and I cried, pleaded, bargained, and manipulated and got my dad to agree to the dog. We found a dog that we all loved brought her home, and tried to introduce "Anna", our new black lab, to our home and way of life. She was a sweetheart but between her trying to eat the cats, and the cats trying to attack her it was obvious that it was a failed attempt. After about 2-3 hours she was on her way back to where she came from. We were all bummed, the children cried, and mum took us through a lecture about how we had made promises to be our cats "people" first. After a few minutes of silence, Ray started crying and saying she wanted to keep Anna. Mikey piped up with the response, "It's ok Ray now we can go get a bunny!" Oy Vey.

On another note, I am recovering quite well. Everyday gets a little better. I even had the strength and felt good enough to go sit out in the pool. First day out I got sunburned and bitten by mosquitoes.

Lessons learned.

Post Op Recovery

My body demands that this entry be short. The surgery took a grand total of 5 and 1/2 hours. I am recovering pretty well. Only one minor setback. Sore as hell. Hopefully I will be back to fully functioning soon. Thanks to anyone and everyone who has wished me well, visited me, brought gifts and goodies. Thanks Mum for helping me out while I am still completely and utterly useless other than taking up space and making noices. Much love. -Bren

Big Day

I'll make this short and sweet...

Today I got to see little Kylee off to Tuscon, Arizona. I had not seen her for years and she has grown up so much. Such a sweet little girl.

Tomorrow is the big day. I am scheduled for the 8 o'clock slot. It's a 3 to 5 hour procedure and it is expected that it will take me some time to wake from the anesthesia and a long recovery from there. I strongly discourage coming to see me prior to Friday. The first week is pretty messy but after the post op appointment Friday morning I should be decent enough for visitors. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers, they are much appreciated. Loves!

-Bren

Pre- Op Update

First things first, last night with Andrea was sooo much fun! Thanks for spending the time with me and most of all thanks for being patient with me.
This morning was a pretty interesting one. Ray had some dental work done this morning. My morning wake up call was her in hysterics, they had put her under sedation to do the work and she was having some adverse affects I guess. She screamed for a good 1 to 2 hours before I had to leave for my appointment.
At my appointment all went well. The procedure is still scheduled for the 8th which is just short of 4 days now. My enthusiasm for visitors has been put on hold. I am now encouraging people to wait a week. It's not the visitor that's the problem, but the recovery sounds long, painful, and what I hadn't really realized... Disgusting. Anyways, if you come to visit me I will probably be a mess. Consider yourself warned.
-Bren

I Can't Brain Today, I Have The Dumb.

Yesterday was the day I got my wisdom teeth out. All went well. Healing seems to be coming along just fine. I couldn't have asked for a better dentist. I'm still a bit sore but the pain meds compensate for that. It also expains how dumb I've gotten.

Thanks to great family and friends recovery seems to be more bearable. Thank you all for all the visits, whether I remember you visiting or not. You are all so great! I am so blessed to have you all as family and friends! And thank you all for putting up with my random, seemingly drunk, phone calls.

Here's to a comfortable, speedy recovery!