More Praises!!

Wow, Ryan looks great! As soon as we walked into his room this afternoon he got a huge smile on his face and started talking a mile a minute. I guess he had been awake for awhile, but they had taken him down for his routine post surgery CT scan and he was waiting impatiently for us to arrive after that. He is so excited and relieved and grateful that they took the tumor on his brain stem. He had been much more worried about that one than he had let on, and is feeling so encouraged to know that it is gone. The only lingering side affect of the surgery so far is that his speech is a little bit funny--I guess funny isn't quite the right word...it's more just that his voice sounds a little swollen. He is feeling great, though, and is so happy to have all of us in the room with him in the ICU. He'll still stay there overnight and then be moved to his room tomorrow.
The nurse that he has right now is a Christian, and remembers us from a surgery a couple of years ago, I guess right after Gabe was born. She says that Ryan hasn't been too cantankerous so far, so that is a praise, as well :)
A quick prayer request to throw in for the recovery process is that his blood sugar was a little high coming out of surgery, so they gave him a shot of insulin. They'll be monitoring it, but I guess it is a pretty normal side effect of surgery like that.
Anyway, I'm heading back down to see him, but thank you all for your prayers! They are so very appreciated and of course still needed.
With grateful hearts we are praising the Lord!