Day 5

Sunday March 15, 2009

Home is where the heart is. When we woke this morning Jake was in so much pain, and was saying he wanted to go home. We all want him to come home but, we know that there are more weeks to push through. We sit here and comfort him as much as we can. Like the previous day before Jake was having a hard time urinating so they decided to do a bladder scanner. Sure enough he was holding in all of his fluids, so they decided to insert a catheter. As I sat through the procedure with him it was very painful for him but, he pulled through. After he had gotten use to the feeling the pressure started to release. They had lowered his morphine on Saturday night, and that was not going well this morning. So the doctors decided to gradually increase it. We believe we have found a happy medium at 8. That's 8 mg/h. Today he had played on his new laptop and was joined by his buddy Jon, my brother. Jon was excited to see Jake and can't wait to come again tomorrow. Jim and Julie unfortunately had to fly home today, and as days go on as Jake progress's they will come back. Tonight Alissa, Jake's sister plans to stay over night since I have to head home. Tonight they plan on putting Jake on full nutirition bags since he is not able to eat. Were all hanging in there for Jake, especially me! Love you all, and keep in thoughts. Hope everyone had a great weekend! I love you, Jake!