he's awake!

They took him in this morning at 7:30 and sewed him up and were done an hour later! They said the surgery went phenomonal and couldn't have went any better! They gave him something that paralyzes you during the surgery so that he wouldn't try to move or twitch or anything while they were operating. It lasts 3-4 hours so they had to keep him highly sedated back in the ICU so that he wouldn't try to come out of it or even start to at all. Around 3:00 they woke him up and around 4 took the resperation tube out. He did really good with the tube on and didn't fight it. The 1st thing he asked when he woke up is where is my wedding ring. They told him before they would just put tape on it and then they decided to take it off and he didn't know. That is so cute that he said that. Once they told him it was Sunday he remembered Desperate Housewives was on tonight. He loved Nurse Taylor just like I do and kept asking for him. He asked his dad to give him a blessing and asked if Nurse Taylor would do it with him. This morning while he was still out we were able to partake of the sacrament in the ICU, and they put it to Billy's lips. It was kind of different but really neat. Billy stood today while they changed the sheets isn't that amazing! I called after I got off work and talked to the nurse and was going to go and see him. She said that he has kind of been a basket case tonight and that it's because he is highly medicated. She said that she had just given him some sedative and he didn't want to go to sleep because he was worried he wouldn't wake up. She told him to just relax and that he needed to rest. She said that she told asked him if he wanted me to come see him and he said No, that he didn't want me to see him like that. Pretty sad. I know he will be better tomorrow though and that he was just so out of it today. She said that he said he missed me and connor. how cute. She said I could come if I wanted but he would probably be out of it and it would be better if I came tomorrow morning, so I decided to just come home and I will go in the morning. The doctor said he should only have to be in the hospital for a week now instead of 2 because of how good he did in ICU. That is good and I know his recovery is going to be hard but that he can get through it. Seeing him in ICU showed me how strong he is and what a fighter he is.