Late April 1st

Hi Everyone,


I wanted to give a brief update about today. I wrote earlier this morning and I would say as a family we had a bit of a rough night. The man next door to us passed away last night-so please say a prayer for his family.

Today, Jake has been absorbing his food which was great. He also had a CT scan on his neck to make sure there weren't any fractures. Jake did well through the scan luckily has no fractures so we were able to remove his neck brace. Jake is also off another one of his blood pressure medicines so Jake is now only on one blood pressure medicine...This is great.

Throughout the day Jake has had a few low grade fevers, a high fever would be considered 100.5. Jake is being rotated continuously, and he has a few bed sores, but he is also on medicine for that.

If there is no progression for Jake by this weekend then we will be talking about inserting a tracheotomy and a feeding tube. This will alleviate all of the different cords and tubes around Jake's face and it will also be more comfortable for him.

Erin wanted me to add that she has been reading Jake all kinds of great literature including, magazine articles about Brett Michaels, and Sandra Bullock....but really we are reading to him all the time, whatever we can find.

Jake was so strong today and got a bath with his own body wash. We even gave him a little spray of his Usher cologne so he could smell more like himself.

Today was a really hard day for a lot of us, but Jake pulled through like always. Please continue to pray for his smiling face.

Rachel