Might as well join him!

I am sorry for not being able to update but for some reason I cannot get the laptop to connect to the internet in the room that we are in. Jason is now moved back on to the Stem Cell floor. Each day he is showing improvement. He now has a white cell count of 2.1. This is awesome! However we are quite a ways from being able to go home. He is still not eating and is barely drinking. He has started back taking some of his meds orally and not just IV. Physical Therapy is working with him to gain some leg strength back. He sat up for about 10 minutes today and that was all he could handle. His skin wounds are healing so thats good. The down side is his mental acuity is still pretty off. Its sad but at least he is entertaining. He bounced a pink bucket up and down on his head, used his suction device as a wand, went fishing with his morphine pump. So its quite a bit of work to try to reorient him. The doctors say that they have seen this before and that it will get better. His electrolytes are little off and he is on a morphine pump which is on demand. Morphine has a nasty habit of staying in the system when your kidneys are not in the best shape, so I was wondering if some of his loopy behaviour could also be attributed to a build of morphine. I requested that they change his pump to a different med and try an oral numbing medicine to try to cut down on the usage of the pump. Only time will tell if this helps. As for when he wants to wake up and read magazines at 1 am or watch TV at 5am I ve decide if you cant beat him, join him! He asked me to stay with him one more day this week so I will be heading home tomorrow. Prayers for his mental status to improve and that his overall healing and strengthening continue! Prayers welcomed! Kimmy

For those Austinites the benefit garage sale is 9/4(which oddly enough is the exact day we found out about Jason's recurrence of cancer the first time around last year) its at South Austin Church of the Nazarene at 6711 Manchaca Rd Austin Tx 78745 8-3. There will also be homemade baked goods for sell as well!!! Tell your friends!