First Few Minutes in PICU

He's swollen, of course... could increase for the next day or two.. that's normal... then it will go down. I held his hand an spoke to him.. told him that it was all a great success, and that he probably feels like doo-doo, and that's expected... but he did an AWESOME job!! I was telling him how GINORMOUSLY proud of him that we are ..AND HE SQUEEZED MY HAND!!! He tried moving his head toward me.. soooo darn cute! He is so amazing! And Steph got on the other side of him and was speaking to him and he LIFTED HIS HEAD to try to speak!! The PICU nurse just told us that he'd be totally out of it for at least 6 hours! But they are feeling quite good b/c Lincoln woke for Drs Weiner & Harter.. but he DEFINITELY moved his head to forward and looked as if he wanted to talk :) A few minutes later, while laying our hands on him and talking.. he put his head forward again..and OPENED HIS EYES!! He's SUCH a TROOPER!! We, of course, told him to sleep! Just sleep and relax!!! Everything is really looking good, Folks :) Cell phones and computers aren't allowed to even be turned on in the PICU, so our posts will be infrequent for the next 12 hours or so.. Oh-- you'll all be sleeping for a big chunk of that!! Duh!! Ok.. going to upload the pics we have... Peace and Love to you ALL!