Happy Chinese New Year and Mark's surgery

First of all I want to wish everyone a very Happy Chinese New Year! Myah is very excited about eating her special Chinese dishes and candy today! Secondly, I want to thank everyone for your sweet emails and comments sending your good well wishes and prayers for Mark, we truly appreciate all of the support. He is home and resting, very swollen and bloody eyes but his humor is still in tact (of course) and he is relieved to have the surgery over with. The surgery went very well, it was a long day, it is a two part procedure and they can't give him proper pain medication until after the second process is completed. So for about 5 hours after surgery he can't have any pain management. He was in terrible pain this time, he didn't come out of recovery until 2 hours later, I was beginning to get concerned, but they reassured me that they were just trying to make him comfortable. I actually cried when I saw him, his head was bandaged and he couldn't see, added to that the fact that he was in so much pain, made my heart just sink. I cannot say enough about the wonderful Dr's and nurses, they were so compassionate and took very good care of him. His vision will still be a bit blurred and possibly still double for a while but that should get better once his brain gets used to the new eye position. He actually had the surgery on both eyes, we knew that they would do a small procedure to the left eye but did not realize that both eyes needed the muscle repair. It was a long day and we just wanted to get home, unfortunately I had to drive home in a horrible snow storm, it took me 2 hours to get home from Ann Arbor, it ususally takes me 25 minutes. I was a nervous wreck by the time I got home, it was so nice to have my mom here! Dayton actually had a snow day yesterday and also today so it worked out perfectly having him home to help out Grandma. The roads were so terrible last night I just prayed the whole way home, poor Mark was so out of it and uncomfortable, and I just could not get anywhere fast. Our neighbors could not even get into their driveway, they were stuck! Bless Dayton's heart, he snow blowed our driveway so that I could pull in, we have never taught him how to use it before! I was cracking up! My mom went home today, they received 18 inches of snow yesterday so I am praying for her safe travels. The kids just loved spending the past few days with her, we hated to see her leave! Well, I am off to play nurse for my sweet patient, hope you all have a great time celebrating the New Year!