A better day.

Today Ashton woke with his left eye completely swollen shut. He spent most
of the morning grumpy and frustrated because he couldn't see. I called Stanford
and was told pretty much what I expected. When he had the drain removed from
his brain, some of the fluid leaked out under his skin. Since he didn't sleep in a
hospital bed, propped up just right, the fluid pooled around his eye and caused the
swelling. Poor little guy, as if he doesn't have enough going on with the weakness
on that side, now his eye is swollen shut. It took almost all day to get back to normal.
We did physical therapy with him ourselves today and he wasn't too into it. The
second time we tried he did a bit better, its as if he is getting stronger little by little.
We have started calling his strong hand his "happy" hand and his weak hand
his "sad' hand. We tell him he needs to use his sad hand more to make it
happy like his other one....I think he really understands this. By the end of
this evening, he was waving and giving high fives with his sad hand. I bet tomorrow
will be even better!