The beard stays....

....for now.

Today we went and got my head shaved because everyone tells me that OR nurses give bad haircuts. But I only had them clean the beard up a bit. If I have an ET tube in the ICU, then they'll have to shave a bit of the beard to tape it on, but otherwise, they'll use velcro in the OR and leave the beard alone!

In 15 hours or so, I'll have less brains. Some people probably think I have an excess, but I am pretty attached to them. They tell me I'm not really using the ones they're gonna take, so I suspect no one will notice.

I got some more scans at the IRC today and settled the paperwork for tissue preservation and donation to the UT brain tumor repo. So now it's just down to the cutting.

I think the Keppra is keeping me pretty flat emotionally about all of this. It really hasn't hit me in any meaningful way that I'm having my skull opened in a major operation tomorrow. Maybe I'll be a puddle of goo at 3:45am tomorrow, but I don't think so.

Thanks very much to everyone who's sent food, gifts, and well wishes so far. It's meant a lot to me and to Caris. We've been massively supported so far, and it's been fantastic.

I'll see you all again tomorrow afternoon.