Before And After MRI Pictures

Yesterday Nathan had an MRI to have a look at how things have settled in after the surgery. No wonder he's so much happier now! The before and after picture showed how much pressure he had in his brain before surgery. The tumor looks unchanged and so does the small cyst which the surgeon wasn't able to get. The neurosurgeon said that he is at this point more concerned about cysts than the tumor, since Nathan seems to be in the camp of cyst-producers.

But for today, he looks and acts happy and healthy, and we're thankful for that. The future isn't ours to worry about.

This week he wrote his first words on his own. VERY exciting. Every day he seems to have a word he wants to know the meaning of. "What's typical mean?" "What's a paralytic?" (He meant a paramedic.)

Tonight he was the one who was helping me in the kitchen. He chopped peppers with a sharp knife, which made it exciting. I told him the greatest chefs in the world are usually men. He said maybe that's because moms are too busy to cook. Then he decided to set the table special, with goblets and cloth napkins he folded in a triangle. Oh, and he wanted to have candles too. And have water with lemon. After all, this was homemade pizza night.