Beep!

It’s been a strange visit! We’ve had an x-ray of the foot for a possible break (four year olds running in socks are really dangerous), an x-ray of the chest (the reminents of his RSV cough began to get worse while inpatient), and four of us staying in one room because the girls decided to stay the whole weekend with Jake. This was actually good for him but not so sure how good it was for me. Just sayin’! Actually, it wasn’t too bad but there were definitely moments where I’m sure the neighbors on both sides were wondering what was going on in here. They can get a little noisy! Althought the floor was jumping a bit this weekend with lots of families as many of them came up to watch the games together… a good weekend for both of our teams… Go Texans and WHOOP! Way to go Ags! The girls ended up in Jake’s bed and he ended up in mine. We made it all work and the girls know the hospital backward, forward, up and down. They found 3 gift shops, the food court, the Women’s Pavilion Cafeteria, and the 16th floor vending machines. You’d think they were on vacation! We had a couple of visitors – Adriene and her daddy, Dan Bodin, who I am thankful for a wonderful, home cooked, meal. And Michelle came up bearing gifts. Her company did a sock and slippers drive so she brought a BIG box of them for all of the kids on the floor. We had the priveledge of going room to room to let the kids pick

some fuzzy, soft, warm socks or slippers. It’s hard to understand what something so small can do for these kids until you see how much it makes them smile. As for now, Jake’s 72 hours of chemo just finished up, he’s getting a blood transfusion to juice him up till we are back Thursday (since his hemoglobin is a wooping 6.2), we will be going home accessed, and he’s flushing so we can be ready to hit the road jack! We are ready to get back home. We’ll be back several times while his counts recover to check in and for transfusions. And his big MIBG will be scheduled in about two weeks to see how the chemotherapy has been working. We’ll be praying for really good scans, for a screen with very little markings, and for the Docs to say they are ready for us to meet with Dr. V (our surgeon) to remove the mass that started it all. At the moment, Daddy has turned Jake on to Green Lantern as “the greatest Super Hero”. I think it’s funny to hear the nurses ask him about his favorite and have him say “Green Lanter, cuz my Daddy says it is”. But for him it’s still all about the dinos! He was actaully stumped by one that Adriene brought and they had to find it in one of his books. I think it’s one of the first that he didn’t know right off the bat. You better believe he knows it now! The kids go back to school tomorrow and Jake and I will rest for the next couple of days. You know hospitals and the night time noises and busyness… as Jake yells to the nurses… “beep, beeeep, beeeeep, beeeeeeeep!” (Luckily, he’s so stinkin’ cute because when he wants to, he can sound just like one of those migraine making machines.)