Joye's Update 4/15/08

Today was pretty quiet. Andrew did a lot of sleeping. He finally woke up and was pretty alert at about 6pm. I was able to catch him up on all of your posts and we were able to pray together. It's so evident to me that Andrew's faith in God's healing power is pulling him through this. It has been decided that he will receive the tracheotomy on Thursday at 11:30am. Please pray for that surgery to go well. It's not a terribly difficult surgery; however, because of his neck fusion surgery, they are not able to extend the neck as they would normally like to do for this surgery. It makes it a little more tricky, but they still say it's not too difficult. Later that day he will also have a feeding tube put through his belly. He is unable to eat with the trach for now, so that's how he'll receive nutrients. He's still doing great emotionally, and he's still has me saying the alphabet about 100 times per day. It gets a little comical when he has just received his morphine and is trying to spell out words for me. He's not such a good speller then. He also got some new snazzy boots. They are lined with fur and they make it so his legs don't turn out and so he doesn't develop this thing called "drop foot." When we showed them to him he made me play the alphabet game and he spelled out H-U-G-G-S. I was so happy he wanted me to hug him, then I realized he meant Ugs. He was telling me his new boots were his Ugs (those fury boots the girls are wearing lately). He keeps the nurses laughing around here . . . they all love him. Well, I think I'll close for now . . . Andrew is still very alert and wants to "talk" some more tonight. He is really loving your posts. He made me spell out E-M-A-I-L today which meant he was asking me to read his posts. Thank you so much for that. Good night and God Bless. Joye