Dr. Dan came in yesterday evening, J was starting to move his legs when he would pinch or tickle him so he said that was good news and he was happy to see that. They had taken him off the one pain meds but left the other on, so he was getting morphine as needed which yesterday was needed. He had this sigh of relief on his face, I have learned if the doctors are happy then things are good.
We were blessed to get a room at the Wyatt Place, this is the University ran facility for families who have someone going through Cancer treatment at their facility, they opened it up to the children's hospial families for the weekend since most families go home and the motels were full. I felt comfortable leaving Jeremy so we went there to sleep, and got back up here this morning. Jeremy had been getting morphine every 4 hours for pain, his last dose was due at 9am but he hasn't needed it and is able to calm himself back to sleep and is resting peacefully. The surgery team came in and changed his bandage, fairly long incision so he added another battle wound. He is now off of all the pain meds except Morphine as needed, this will allow him to be up, agiated and see where we get. Dr. Dan was getting with PT and will allow him to start sitting up, he is going to be allowed to advance his diet. Dr. Dan would like to start tomorrow to put him back in traction. He said at this point it is 60% unlikely we will have his spinal surgery to fuse the spine on Friday, but 40% likely we will. He wants him in traction and is not going to send us home on traction, if something happened we would need to be here and he is here to watch him. I don't know if Jeremy will have surgery this friday, the friday after we will know within the next few days he wants to make sure J's spinal cord is healthy. I told him that is what I want for Jeremy.
I am going to find a Wal-mart after while and go buy Jeremy a birthday present he can have up here, I can't believe my son turns 11 tomorrow....
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