This year, rather than the usual letter and/or Christmas card, we decided to put together a video. This is our 2010 Year-in-Review and Christmas “Letter” Merry Christmas!!
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Podcasting About Jude
Jessica and I sat down this afternoon, using my experience with podcasting, to talk about our experience over the last couple weeks with Jude. The music that opens and closes the show was provided to me by my friend Laurence Anderson, from his album 7 Songs, 6 Strings, 5 Kids.
More News
This afternoon I got a call from the oncologist at Children’s hospital. The pathology report came back from the doctor at Johns Hopkins and confirmed the tumor type that Jude has. This is very good news! It means that Jude will require no further treatment at this time. He will still need to undergo some …
Back Home!
Today we awoke with the expectation that we’d be moved upstairs to another room. Jude was only in ICU because of this saline drip, and so they could watch his sodium levels, but that came out last night and he was doing well. It was a bit of waiting to see what was going on, …
Saturday Update
Today was another pretty good day. This morning, Jude’s neurosurgeon came in and said that he wanted Jude to have as normal of a day as possible, as if Jude were at home. He did a pretty good job of it. Jude has a scooter that he found in the family lounge that he has …
Friday Update
Today was another good day. Jude continues to improve. He is still very thirsty, and begging for water. We hope that tomorrow he can begin having water. He has been very crafty in his requests. My mom was heading out to use the restroom when Jude said “While you’re gone, can you get some water …
Happy Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving, and post-op day 2. We have so much to be thankful for today. We are still in very high spirits, and just taking things one day at a time, allowing Jude the time to recover. One very small thing I’m thankful for is the laptop that was brought from home for us this …
Wednesday Updates
Last night we got a little more sleep. It wasn’t enough, but we take what we can get at this point. Sleep was interrupted at about 1:30 when Jude’s IV came out of the vein, dumping fluids into his tissue and causing his hand to swell. That meant he needed it removed and a new …
Word from the surgeon
Just a quick update that the surgeon came in and reported that surgery went well. He’ll be out soon.
Tuesday Updates
Jude is doing well today. Last night around 9:30, he was taken off his sedatives and allowed to wake up. The doctors wanted his ventilator tube removed, because it could cause him to contract pneumonia. It took him a while to come to, and it was hard for him to wake up in a hospital. …