My head hurts

Amy and I got to go in and see Lisa in the ICU about 11:00am. She is hooked up to monitors and the grids that were placed on her brain are hooked up with electrodes that monitor her brain activity. The grids are the size of a credit card and smaller one about 2x4 inches is on the frontal lobe. The bigger one is wrapped under the left lobe to get more info deep inside her brain. Fascinating!

When we walked in, the nurses were all smiles and told us that she was doing so well that Dr Tracy, who usually has his patients in ICU critical care over night, put her in ICU step-down. They seemed to be amazed that she is doing so incredibly well. They informed us that she is great! She was not complaining of a head ache just yet and as soon as she came to, she requested her diet Pepsi. She was sipping that when we walked in the room.

Her head is wrapped and she looks really, really good. I told the nurses that she has an EXTREMELY (I can't express that enough) high tolerance for pain (different story if she gets a pin prick though:)). They took that into consideration. When Amy and I were at her bedside, and we asked her how she felt, she just said, "My head hurts." The nurse was not in the room, but the nurse who monitors the seizures heard it and told the nurse. When the nurse asked her on a scale of 1-10, how much it hurts she didn't answer. Amy got the sheet out and had her point to the scale, she pointed to 1or 2. I stepped in and asked her "Does your head hurt alittle, alot, or really really bad?" she answered "a little". She is a stinker. As bull headed as they come...which is probably why she is where she is in life today:)
Sam, her nurse thanked us for helping her figure out the words that they need to say, in order to get a response from her. What ever works!
Wow! From what the nurses are saying, they have not seen anyone bounce back like her. When she said she was hungry the seizure nurse told us that if she eats this soon after surgery, it will be his first, because most other people's jaws hurt and they don't want to eat.