Today is Friday….POD 4 (Post-op day 4).  Brooks is doing amazingly well….or maybe he is just amazing!!

This afternoon, he stood out in the front yard and practiced swinging his golf clubs! If you didn't see the incision running along the side of his head, you would never know he just had major brain surgery!  Each day, he shows vast improvements.  I have to remind myself that he still needs to take it slow and easy!  I sense from him that he is getting very bored….and I love it!  It means he is really getting back to his "old" self…..minus the brain tumor, of course!

My father had surgery yesterday to put is poor, splintered upper arm back together.  They put a plate with 14-15 screws through it to hold it together.  Brooks took one look at the x-ray and said, "Wow…Grandpa definitely has it worse than me!"  Well. it is not a contest, and even if it was….I would say it was a tie!  The good news is that they are both strong, otherwise healthy men who have the summer ahead of them to heal.

So, on we go.  As I told my students at school, life is not always fair and it is certainly not predictable.  Life will throw you a curve ball once in a while, just to make sure you are paying attention…especially to the things in life that are most important!  In my life, family and health are most important and this entire journey has reminded me how fortunate I have been in my life to have a loving and healthy family.  I will never again take that for granted!