- Carl Clayton brought homemade cookies (see pic on pics page) and a book for a new friend.
- Denny, one of the pastors from our church, made a surprise stop while he was in Indy visiting his parents.
- Jacob sat up in the chair for an hour... without puking! Thanks Jennifer and Natalie for believing Jacob could do it!
- At 6pm we moved up to a much quieter private room in the Heart Center, where we were greeted by Tracy, who was our nurse during pre-op on Wednesday. It was nice to see a familiar face! And she gave Tom a hard time for his incorrect caption on the photo of her drawing blood that day! :) Tracy played quite a bit with Jocelyn on Wednesday while we waited for doctors to come. It was great to see her again... even if only for an hour before we meet the night nurse.
Jacob is resting very comfortably. Please continue to pray for pain relief and determination and perseverance to keep pressing on. Major surgery and recovery requires so many little steps to tackle the whole process of recovery.
Tomorrow will be a busy day as Jacob continues to move around more and more and get stiff muscles moving again. Please pray for no more headaches on top of surgery recovery.
We also anticipate Chelsea (Jacob's girlfriend) and Stephanie (her mom) visiting. We also hope to see Jocelyn tomorrow late afternoon. It will be another busy day!
Tom and I are holding up okay. We are both hopeful of MUCH more sleep tonight than last night!! Additionally, so many things just come to a standstill when we have a Riley experience. We know lots of life including baby showers and tornadoes and ezine deadlines and more are impacting our friends lives while we are in the "Riley bubble." We look forward to catching up on life on the outside world soon! This week, we've been a little preoccupied.
Some of you are finding Tom's current hobby of posting odd pictures of things like my slippers. (See tab called Our Pics) It would be most helpful if you would make a few comments to his posts... maybe that will take away some of the "maybe -if-I-post-this-pic-someone-will-comment" phenomenon. I'm getting nervous about what else he might deem worthy of adding to our Riley story!
Thanks for your continued prayers!
So glad to hear that Jacob was able to get into the chair AND that you were able to move to a more quiet ? room. Is there such in a hospital:) We cringe to think of getting up to walk around, but know that is crucial to recovery. This is one more place where his brave and courageous character and yours will be on your side. Our prayers are with you constantly and with each step of the recovery. If this comment goes through, it will be my first!...not that I haven't TRIED:)
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