The one about Jay getting out of ICU and into the Cancer ward!!!!.....

(Welcome to all of you who are from Sheila's email chain...you can check back here anytime for updates while Sheila is at the hospital and not being able to send out email updates. So put this blog on the fav bookmarks, heh.)


Well, great news tonight! Jay is out of ICU and now into the Cancer Ward. This is really good news, if and only if they moved him because he could handle it. Basically, when we got there this morning Jay was his usual self fussy and very squirmy in his bed...and they were continuing to keep him drugged because he was hurting himself by moving around so much and causing his urine catheter to have some blood in his urine, and so they would just keep giving him drugs in the endless cycle because it was the drugs that was causing him to be mad and upset, but he would have to have them to keep him from hurting himself...but the good news is we went to go eat dinner between the 6:00 (end of the second visiting time) and 9:00 pm (start of the last visiting time and the nurse came into the waiting room and told us that Jay was in T7 now (the Cancer ward section of the hospital!!!) Tiffany, Sheila and I jumped for glee (Momma and Daddy had already left to go back to Jay's house) and we ran to his room. Now we ran partly because we were happy he was there, but also to make sure he was not yelling and causing the new nurses in T7 lots of problems.

Well, he was doing just fine, and when we showed up his O2 nose tube was off and his feeding tube was gone out of his nose! (We found out later that he removed it when they transferred him from his ICU bed to his T7 bed, heh....and t& nurse told his his lungs did not sound bad and he was sure confused (ha ha) but then we told her how much better he was doing and that we were just trying to get the drugs out of him to he could start to think straight. The nurse was worried about the feeding tube being out, but Sheila and the nurse decided that they would just leave it out for now. also, other than coughing up green bile (which he was doing anyway with a feeding tube) Jay was his usual drugged self, except he was starting to become a little more normal. For example, he kissed Sheila 2 times!!!!!!! He would answer us when we asked him questions but on top of all of that he still was trying to make a deal with Sheila to let him loose from the straps that were holding him down, he would say, "Our marriage is based on trust so just untie my hands and trust me", ha ha or something like, "Lets make a deal....give me a little more length on my hands" heh heh, He was still very worried about his hands being tied down (as anyone would who did not know what was going on) but all in all he was making better informed decisions. I even tried to leave and all I did was pick up my back pack and he forcefully asked me why I was leaving! heh. So he is starting to understand what was going on around him and every now and then he would have glimpses of his right mind and say, "You just can't understand it is like a really long bad dream" So, needless to say...we are going to bed happy tonight, but Sheila stayed behind to sleep in his room with him and take care of him, while Tiffany and I drove their car back here to their house!!! Man there are some scary parts of Pittsburgh that we never wanted to see, and we only got lost twice so we considered that a good night! heh.

So Jay is still very much in need of our prayers to finally come out of the drugged state that he is in but much better. Please pray for him to get out of it and get healthy so we can focus on his cancer now, please pray for Sheila because she is not going to be driving home each night and will be staying up there with him taking care of him wit the nurses, so she will probably not get as much sleep, but will love being able to be with him at all times, and lastly please be praying for Tiffany because she is flying out tomorrow morning from the PIT airport and we (my father, mother, and me) have to get her there in time for her flight and fight Pittsburgh morning traffic! (and of course please pray for her safety going home).

Now I have to go to bed tonight so I can wake up and drive her to the airport. Love you all and God bless you all!

Love yall and please KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Here is Sheila's email from this morning and my blog will be her new emails until she can write them herself.

Jan. 3rd Morning:

I called this morning and the nurse said that he made it through the night
without them having to place him back on the ventilator. He is still VERY
restless and pulling at his restraints.
I'll let you know more tonight.