Other than that... purely exhausted! Friday the big outting was back to see Dr. Bee, Jacob's chiropractor. He needs to go back in two weeks, so the fact that Dr. Bee thought Jacob could go two weeks instead of five days was an improvement.
Saturday Tom and Jacob were thankful for March Madness. I was thankful they were occupied, and I could rest! Jocelyn just bounced around from person to person bringing mostly smiles and glad to be home.
Sunday was a time warp. We had just been to church the week before, but since then we had unexpectedly made a several day trip up to Riley that included more sleepless nights, more uncertainty as to why Jacob had a fever, and more alarms and tests and medicine. SO MUCH happened in one week that it was hard, very HARD, to believe that it had only been one week. I looked at the date on the bulletin several times to really take in that it had only been one week. I knew that the week before Steve had beautifully preached on John 14 and this past week Ken talked about John 15. So we tried to press on. But it felt like a month since we had been to church... not only one week. Many people that we saw at church hadn't heard that we went back up. More story to tell...
By after church we were all exhausted some more. Tom tackled our back yard because the grass was out of control. The weather has been in the 80s this week. (That's 27+C for those of you around the world!) So in addition to the grass needing attention, Jacob has incredible spring fever which doesn't go well with our sports-driven kid who just has a huge new SEVEN INCH thoracotomy scar, a 10 lb weight restriction, and can't lift his arms above his head.
It turned out to be a low-key and discouraging afternoon. But we rallied again. Friends brought meals. Jacob had fun at Chelsea's house- although he didn't feel like going to the Sunday night high school group at church. I understood, I wasn't ready to be around lots of people either. Stir crazy, missing friends, but overwhelmed...
Monday morning brought another doctor's appointment. This time to see Dr. Morera, Jacob's cardiologist here in Evansville. It's always good to see Dr. Morera. He adjusted Jacob's medicine, ordered a Holter monitor (a 24 hour EKG reading for heart rhythm), and was thankful with us that Jacob is doing so well. Other than next week when we see Dr. Hubbard at Riley, Jacob will be seeing Dr. Morera weekly for a few weeks as medicine is adjusted.
Tom went back to work yesterday, so he is in the heat of projects and meetings. We continue to be thankful that Ryan covered so much last week on the project out of town.
Last night we went to Jacob's induction ceremony for National Honors Society. It was good to see friends and be encouraged by people who have been praying and following our story.
Today Jacob started tackling some school work. We talked yesterday about a plan to tackle pre-calc homework this week. I was proud of him when he came down at 8:30am to get his book and get started. It wasn't much later that he came down and said that he discovered that it hurts to write and he had no idea how many muscles it takes to push down on a pencil. So... there you have your fun fact of the day... it takes muscles under your arm to write!
Full recovery is still several weeks away. We are thankful for the blessing of Spring Break off next week, so Jacob is not further behind in school. He will do his best to start back to school on April 2.
Around 10am today I took Jocelyn back to daycare. It's her first day back since late February. Yesterday she mentioned her friends from class and said her new teacher's name. Today she ran into day care smiling, hugged everybody, showed off her new haircut, and I slipped out. That was a good treat from God to us!
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| Our smiling "puc-cake" (we'll be sad when she finally learns to say 'cupcake'!) |
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