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Good morning, everyone!

My first day back home went well, and I actually was able to sleep for 8 hours, which is impressive since I'm on a higher dose of the steroids again. I'm tapering off the devil drugs at least. 

It still feels a little surreal that this is all happening again - also that I just had an 8 hour brain surgery, I'm the same KJ, and am already home. My neurosurgeon was so impressed with how well I was doing (and how much of the bitch tumor he was able to safely remove), that he moved me to neuro general care after 2 nights in the neuro ICU, and discharged me after 1 night in neuro general care. I was supposed to be in the hospital minimally 5 days. Apparently I'm a champ, heh. 

I have to say that I got quite the compliment yesterday. A friend of ours is an ex-Green Beret sniper 1 (sniper instructor). He told me that I was a badass and that he'd take me into battle any day for how brave I've been, which is quite the compliment coming from him. He's done the stuff that they make movies about.

Ever the craft nerd, I had my mom bring a card that I had previously made so that I could give it to my neurosurgeon. Things I never thought I'd write in a card: "Thank you for saving my life."

 

This is what 8 hours of deep brain surgery looks like - 30 sutures, a titanium plate, and titanium screws.

Fight like hell.

Sassy Pants

Oh, I’m feeling awesome and sassy as hell today. I slept for 9 hours. NINE hours. Straight.  No getting up to pee. Just Sweet, sweet continuous sleep. I had a few errands to run, so today was my first test run at doing my new badass hair. I don’t think I did too badly, but I could use some practice still. I’d like it to be a little wilder a la Kristen Stewart. I’ll just be needing the lil smister to teach me this weekend. I’m really digging my new sassy lip color too.

My errand running today went off without a hitch [unlike yesterday]. I got a few items at a bead store to make a necklace that I saw on Etsy [listed for $25]. I looked in my craft room and found that I had 90% of the items needed to make it and bought the rest for $4. I win. :)

I also had to go to JoAnn to get some fabric for my mom and sister to make me some headbands/head wraps for after the #bigAssBrainSurgery. It was the most blissful Joann experience of my life – hardly anyone there, found exactly what I wanted, it was all on sale, I only waited in the cutting line for 5 minutes … and then I used four coupons at the checkout.

That is a craft errand FTW.

I made a stop at the chiropractor, as well. I know that since I'll be laying in a hospital bed for at least 5 days, i needed to get my lower back/hips in a happy place. I only had one neck vertebrae out of place, though, so I opted to play it safe and just let my neck be for now. [Neurology gave me the okay to have this done before surgery.]

And then I had a lovely starbucks iced latte with coconut milk on the way home.

Oh yes, it’s been a good day. I’ve got my sassiest pants on. I get to see my book club ladies, And my ARodg and the Packers will be on TV tonight.

Fight like hell.