Day 1 post-op

I basically decided I was up at 7am when we gave Kate more morphine, as some lights came back on. Kate had been much the same overnight, crying when she woke/ran out of medication and when the nurse came to do checks, which is quite often.

This morning I saw a slit of her right (to us on her left) eye and think she saw the man opposite & tried to say something. She also tried to say something during the night. That was lovely. To hear her make a sound other than moaning or crying.

Professor Hayward also came again, just now with a troop of other people I chose to ignore as I'm still in my Pjs. He said we just have to deal with this for a few days and she'll be fine.

He was happy medically but warned again the swelling will get worse still.

Kate lost some wires she no longer needs overnight & he said they can take her drain out today. The one from her head taking excess blood away as its not draining much, which is good. Also possibly the cannula in her hand, though it's


the one in he'd foot she's been trying to get off.

We've just had a little chat through her slurred eye again, she looked at me, nurse Tom and tried to say Tom and leg :) Kate is just learning to talk at the moment, so this is great to hear, and again in preference to the hoarse crying sounds we've mostly heard since surgery, it's a joy :)

It's funny to see she still has the pen on her hand from when we were playing in the waiting room yesterday morning.