Thursday morning

Although he slept much better at home the first night, when he woke yesterday morning he had an excruciating headache - just like the previous few mornings in the hosp. He says that mornings are when he feels the worst. Luckily, his room is the darkest in the house because bright light really bothers him right now. He himself is keeping track of the two medicines that he's taking. He takes one at 8am, 4pm & 10pm and the other every 3 hours, and he's been letting us know when he's going to take them. He slept most of yesterday until 4 friends came at 4pm. I woke him up to say they were coming and he got up feeling pretty good after resting all morning, went outside and sat in the grass and they sat with him out there. 3 of the kids left after only 15 minutes - so I let the other stay and they kept it low-key for about an hour, Kevin ate something and they watched a little tv. I'm very happy to hear in their conversations Kevin saying that he really can't do this or that - he's not up to it. He needs to be proactive in shutting himself down when his body says it's time and not trying to do too much this coming week or more. After an hour with 1 friend yesterday, another 2 came over and Kevin said he was sorry, he's falling apart fast, and went straight to his room and zonked out. Slept most of the evening and came out around 8:30pm - he was grouchy and out of sorts and really wondering (cussing out loud) just what he did to himself. He's hurting and he's realizing that this is going to take a while. I just keep telling him that, yes it's going to take a while, but he WILL heal, and he just needs to take care of himself. He slept all night as far as I know - I said hi to him and got him water at 1:30am and looked in when I got up and 5:30am and he was okay.

He has 2 appointments today, Ear/Nose/Throat in the morning and Orthopedic in the afternoon which will tax him quite a bit to go out and come back, so I'm keeping visitors at bay. Will post what we learn about his right ear and cracked clavicle.