November 26, 2005 - Mid-Morning

Sweet girl was "awake" this morning for the first 30 minutes of the visit. She was pretty groggy (since they gave her morphine for the surgery yesterday, this wasn't unexpected) and was running a slight fever (again, not unexpected based on her busy day yesterday). The orders to move her to the step down unit haven't come yet, but it's early in the day still and we have no reason to believe they won't come soon. We'll do a one-line post later today if the orders come through - it's special enough news to merit it's own announcement!

We neglected to mention her new "flock of seagulls" hairdo that she's sporting compliments of the shunt surgery. (The shunt was inserted into the ventricles in her head). Actually this has been the subject of some debate. Brenda says it's closest to 1980's red-headed "she-bop" Cyndi Lauper, Ron votes for Wendy Williams and Kurt agreed with Brenda for once (of course, the debate isn't over yet). We figure that if anyone is capable of bringing that particular fad back, it's our princess.