Alright, so here are the pics that we have so far. We’ll probably keep posting the pics so that we (and you) can see the progress that’s being made.

It’s all about progress, baby.

I think that I’ll try to tell a little bit more of the story - as I understand it….I might get it wrong and if someone out there knows a bit more or needs to correct me on the details….jump right in.

Okay, so here is Chris the morning after…..

When he sent this to me, I was surprised at the split in his lip….other than that, I figured he looked pretty good. I asked Chris about his lip and his response was, “You try to givve birth to a man’s hands and to his wrench and screwdriver and see how your lips handle it.” or something like that….I’m paraphrasing slighty….taking my creative license…..I’m allowed to do that right?

I also thought that they were going to fix his lip, not create an extra scar, but apparently when they got in there and started to break thing up they actually needed to break both the lower jaw and the upper jaw. See, they had to break the upper in half and when they did that a blood vessel broke and started a party and when they were trying to get that all shut down - that’s our best bet as to when what happened to his lip happened. Maybe his lip got burnt by the cauterizing tool or maybe it got caught by another tool or maybe it really did give birth to a man’s hand and just got stretched WAAAAAAY out.

Who knows….what I will say is that Chris looks WAY better in person than he does in these pics, but at least this captures the idea of it all.

Here is the second picture that he sent me a few days after the surgery.

He looks a bit better than he did in the first pic. Probably helps that he’s not laying down in the hospital bed. Even with the cruddy picture quality you can still see those baby blues shining through, eh?

Apparently he has an appointment with one Dr on Tuesday and with the other on Wednesday. We stopped past Mom and Dad’s house yesterday to say hello and to give hugs and kisses and well, mostly to gawk and see if Chris looked like Frankestein.

I was pleasantly surprised at how these pictures really did him no justice. Now, maybe it’s love talking here, but I think he looks great. I can’t fathom the amount of pain he must be in (I’m thinking the super de duper rainbow of pills that he has must take some of the edge off, but seriously. His face is BROKEN and he’s got screws and plates and elastics and all sorts of stuff attached to him and well….it’s all for good, but right now……it’s gotta hurt.

I was whining about a canker sore that I have right at the back of my jaw that is like a crater of pain radiating up into my ear. I was whining about it and feeling stupider and stupider as I whined about my little cancker sore and here was Chris sitting in front of me and even when I asked about the pain he never complained…..just acknowledged it’s presence.

Seriously - he has the best attitude about this all.

And then we were chatting back and forth today on-line this morning and he mentioned that he took the bandages off. So, I asked for another pic and even before I could finish my question. BAM! Here it is.

Excuse the stoned look on his face….it could be because he’s stoned or I was asking him yesterday if he was in that throbbing phase of healing….you know where you can feel your heart beat pulsing in your wound with every beat. Now imagine that you could feel that throbbing in your whole head……all the time….and there was nothing that you could do about it. OUCH!

He said that he feels like his head is bigger than his chest….and even though we can all see that it isn’t….I think that’s a pretty accurate representation of just how bad he’s actually feeling…not that Chris would ever complain or anything.

My mom was wondering if there is anyone out there who still reads this. It would be awesome if you could just even say, “HI!” in the comments to let us know if there is anyone else out there who checks in on Chris and the family.

The stats say we have a few, but it would be fun to hear from you personally……..I’m just sayin’…….