Oh, what a day!

For those of you who don't know, we were in the process of selling our house and moving to a farm in southern Vermont when Matt had his accident. We had to put off the closing hoping to have Matt sign a power of attorney so that I could complete the closing. We are no where close to that happening, so I had to appear at court this morning to ask for a temporary guardianship. The judge was incredibly helpful and worked everything out for me so we can finally check that off our list - the closing is now on Monday!

So happy to have that accomplished, I was ready to come back to the hospital and see Matt before surgery. But while I was out, they extubated him! When we got back, he was tubeless and had both eyes open - it was amazing to see. He followed me with his eyes around his bed and uses his left hand alot. I was sitting by his bed reading and he kept pulling the book out of my hands and holding onto it. As long as things go okay tonight, this means he won't have to have a tracheostomy. He'll probably still be on the list for a feeding tube into his stomach because they don't think he'll be able to eat yet, but we'll see about that tomorrow.

As I overheard someone say today, we're still here waiting as fast as we can. I'll let you know whenever we hear anything else.