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Allyssa has been moved from ICU to a private room. I was present this morning when they removed the drain from her head and re-bandaged her. She has an incision beginning behind the hairline in the front to the approximate crown of her head, curving to her left and downwards, back towards her left ear. I do not have an exact count, but I speculate she has 100 + stainless steel surgical staples in her head. She asked, “How do I look Dad?” Not really knowing what to say, I popped off with, “Think Borg.” “Really??!? Borg? I look like a Borg? COOL!” That’s my baby girl; Star Trek junkie just like her Dad. They also removed the catheter and one of her IV’s before the move to a private room. Needless to say, I didn’t stick around for the pee-pee tube removal.
As you might imagine, she has one hell of a headache. They finally had a chance to check her back and neck for damage from the fall, and all is well there; no fractures. Her dry sense of humor has resurfaced, and THAT is a good sign.
God willing, the truly bad shit is over with.
Many thanks to all of you for your prayers.
Today our youngest daughter, Allyssa, had a serious accident during cheerleading practice. The details of the accident are not fully known at this time. What is known is that she suffered severe head trauma.
She was transported to a local area hospital where emergency surgery was performed to remove a blood clot from her brain. The surgery went off without a hitch. The neurosurgeon said she had a single bleeding vessel in her brain which caused the clot, and the swelling of the brain was significantly less than it could have been given the size of the clot.
She is currently in ICU. They are going to give her another CT scan in the morning. The good news is she was awake and responsive to all 4 of her parents, as well as her grandparents; she knew who all of us were. She had no idea why she was in the hospital. She said the last thing she remembers is her head slamming the floor.
For those of you who do, please say a prayer for our little girl.
When she gets better, Daddy is going on a nut cutting expedition to find out what the fuck happened.
As most of you know, The Blonde is a HUGE Green Bay Packers fan. They lost at home to the New York Giants today in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs. The picture above pretty accurately depicts The Blonde’s reaction. The Packers flat-out sucked. Their defense looked like the Dallas Cowboys defense had drugged the Green Bay Packers defense, put their uniforms on and played. THEY SUCKED SHIT THROUGH A DIRTY SOCK.
The suckage wasn’t isolated to the defense. The wide receivers for the Packers might have thought they were playing ‘hot potato’ rather than football. Uncharacteristically, they dropped a shit-load of passes. All in all, the Packers got their cheese grilled.
Normally I would say something nice about the winning team, but I hate the NY Giants as much as I hate the Washington Redskins and my ex-wife. So….I will be a San Francisco 49ers fan for a weekend.