The one about some good news......

Well good news today! We showed up in Jays room at the appointed time (1:30 pm the first time they allow us to see him) and the Dr.s told us that All of Jay's breathing today was on his own! The ventilator was just doing basic stuff for him! And the chest X-Ray was better and his vitals were great!!! So needless to say we are very happy! And it is a possibility that if they can tomorrow they might take him of the breathing tube and see if he can handle it! The Dr. said that he needs to be a little bit awake to be able the help the Dr pull out the tube..so they are slowly weaning him off the super knock out medicine and putting him on a lesser but still strong knock out medication, but this one is short lasting so they can administer it in shorter time intervals so that Jay can help the Dr. when the Dr is ready to pull the breathing tube out.

He might kill us, but I talked Sheila into taking a picture of him in this state (for two reasons...the one I told Sheila is that he looks like he is part of the Borg from Star Trek with all these tubes coming out of him, and the other reason is I think it will be very powerful to him all all those who will hear his testimony of how God was with him this entire time! And it will be a testimony to all of your prayers too! As soon as he is feeling better and maybe sometime I will try to get that picture and put it up for you to see what we have been seeing the past few days.

The rest of the visits were really basically us just loving him from a distance. They said his white blood cell count was way down (from the chemo so that is not a bad thing) and that means that he is really easily able to catch diseases and sicknesses so all of us were playing it safe and not hardly even going close to him. All the time today he just peacefully slept, except one time he did figit a little, but settled down after a while. Other than that we did our usual with going to a great sandwich shop across the street from the hospital and then spent the rest of the time playing UNO in Starbucks. It sounds crazy, but that simple card game sure helps to balance the problems going on and helps Tiffany, Sheila and me to just relax until we get to go back for the next visit.

Well, here is hoping for actually getting to talk to a responsive brother who is well on his way to the chemo ward to focus on the cancer and not his lungs!!!!!!!!

Great news hopefully tomorrow for all of us especially Jay!

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I also talked to my Nanaw (grandmother on Dad's side) and she still had a little bit of fever, but they were sending her to a swing bed room which is the room that she goes to right before they let her out! This is good news on the home front and I know that it is all because of your prayers! Thank you!

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I also tried to "pimp out" Jay's new Pocket PC, but I just could not get the darn thing to connect to the internet, so I guess he will just have to do that himself when he gets home some day! But sometime I will buy him some cool games and software for it!

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I also cut my hair today and will shave tomorrow...not totally I will leave my soul patch, but it will feel good to shave. I know I will probably not be able to go to a organized worship service, but who knows I might just do one here for the fam! (at the very least I will do one with God heh)

Well, as always here is Sheila's emails from today and I must go to bed. These late nights are taking their toll, heh

Love you all and please continue to KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jan 1st Morning:

I called today and no change so far but the Doctor's haven't rounded. I'm
getting ready to leave for the hospital. Another update this evening.

Thanks,
Sheila

Jan 1st Evening:


We just got back from seeing Jay. He still has the breathing tube in but they
said his lungs are doing all of the breathing. They have changed his sedation
to a short acting sedation so that they can try to remove him from the
ventilator tomorrow. His Hem/Onc Doctor said that he is getting and LP on
Monday with chemo in it because they suspect it has returned in his brain as
well. This will happen only if they get him off the ventilator as planned.
Everything else is pretty much the same. They gave him platelets twice today
and his white cell count has dropped significantly due to the chemo.

Hopefully, tomorrow he will be able to talk with us or at least nod.

We'll write more tomorrow.

Sheila

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Again...love yall and God bless have a wonderful Sunday! Oh and if Jay is taken off the breathing tube it will be exactly 7 days that it was when it got off......leave it to Jay to keep everything Biblical, heh. Leave it to God to do the same.....;)