We are living life from the 5th floor of the University of Missouri Children's Hospital, doing really well.
Jeremy has been tolerating the traction well in my opinion, the walker got fixed up yesterday so he walked the halls for a couple of hours, he was exhausted when we got the room and about 8pm he was ready for bed. He is also getting "traction" breaks, where we totally un-hook him from traction, he gets to go to the playroom and play with toys he can't while he is restrained to the traction. This morning our amazing nurse, Shelly took him with her to the nurses station and he was early morning entertainment. He is the ruler of the Pediatric floor and loves the attention. Jeremy is getting well known in room 528, he is making friends and they all come by to see him. We are also starting to see nurses we seen while Jeremy was here in August, they are all so excited at how well he is doing and to see him up. He had been sleeping ok considering what he is going through, I sleep on the bed with him. They watch him while I run downstairs to grab a bite to eat or take a break.
Dr. Dan came by late yesterday evening to check out the walker and seemed fairly proud of how that turned out, but pleased with what it was doing for Jeremy. Jeremy pretty much ignored him, he asked if they would still be friends. He said he would come by Saturday and if it's ok would bring his little girl that way Jeremy could see some kids while he is here and he was taking her to a birthday party. I thought that was so sweet for him to ask and to think about Jeremy, but then again that is why we are here he is not only a spine expert but a compassionate physican who has so much emptahy toward his patients and hasn't forgotten the "human" side of medicine.
This morning we took a good stroll around the entire 5th floor with Kelsey the weekend therapist, who is awesome. Dr. Dan was coming down the hall as J was coming out of his room and his eyes lit up and he says, "OH he looks good, got to take a picture" he introduced his little girl to us, Jeremy wanted to hold her hand, she was really sweet with Jeremy. Jeremy interacted with Dr. Dan. We are up to 9lbs of weights. We talked for a little while and got to see his little baby girl, he had both his girls with him. He wants to do X-rays on Monday to see how things look and then repeat the CT scan we did last year to see how different things are.
We are chilling out in the room, I think Jeremy is already tired. He is sitting very quietly thumbing through books.
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