Good morning gals! We got Jack into bed last night and he was able to sleep in his own bed until about 3 AM then came down and is asleep in the recliner right now. He did say he slept ok in the bed. I had his head propped up with three pillows and then placed one of my pillows that had a sham on it under his back for extra support and put the heating pad inside the back where the slit is on the sham and he slept that way with a couple Advil. Seemed to work ok until early this morning. I know I woke up many times and heard him sleeping soundly so that is good.
Jean: Jack is antsy, but can't go back on anything but full duty. The only light duty the city allows is for work related injuries. I imagine the doctor may release him for back to work in a couple weeks since he is doing so well. His scars (the chest and chest tube ones) are heavily scabbed now so I am beginning to put vitamin E oil on them so they aren't so tight. My sil suggested this before she left. So, no more babies for you, huh? I have a secret Nonny weapon that works with all cranky babies; big boobs and I sing to them. It hasn't failed me yet. I am hoping my dil has a wonderful pregnancy. One thing that she may not like now, but will when it comes time is she is wide in the hips. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have a big baby. Jay wants a boy and I think he will name him Jack the IV, which will make us all happy and I know that Alicia doesn't mind that at all. Jay is actually Jack also, but at the time he was born, Jack's dad was alive so there were all three of them and we had to distinguish. Jack was the father, my Jack they had always called Jackie (though I never did) and my son was called Jay. I told Jack maybe we can call a boy baby named Jack, LJ for little Jack. I have started a beautiful little sweater for him or her. It is white so it can go either way and instead of buttons, overlaps and ties like the old style t-shirts we used to have when our kids were babies, remember? Since the baby is likely to be born in June this is bigger for fall and I am going to try and get a pullover made and the babie's fuzzy blanket all by Christmas. I would love to make a matching pullover sweater for Thomas, but he never wears sweaters so I wouldn't want to waste the time if he wouldn't wear it.
As you can see, I removed my Vegas ticker. We have decided to forego the trip next year since the baby is coming in the summer. We are going to get our downstairs floors all done instead I think. I really will miss not going, but Jack only has so much time off and we want to be able to spend at least a week in Indiana when the baby is born then a few more trips and of course be there for their first Christmas. We will miss Thomas at Christmas, but we told Kelly a long time ago that we would go to Indiana for Jay's babie's first Christmas. We will just celebrate with Thomas the weekend before. We will even take him to the casino buffet to eat if they want to so he can keep his "tradition" going.
Kelly is embarrassed that Thomas's favorite tradition is being at the casino, but I think it is cute. He just LOVES that buffet, because the only other thing he does is he can swim at the indoor pool at the hotel and the hotel room itself, which isn't very exciting.
Hope all is well with everyone else. Hope Maggie is doing ok, stuck in timbuktu and I miss Gail being around too!
Everyone have a super duper day!
Faye
It sounds like Jack is getting antsy; could he go back to work half days and/or light duty type of thing if the surgeon oks it? I know men aren't very good at being patient patients. 
I did not know that there are "wound" nurses who specialize in just that. She is the one who was asking about what else might be on the blades. There was one IV bag that looked like cream; I didn't ask what it was. 
A trip to Nashville sounds like a fun thing to look forward to. 
I never seem to get caught up on that pile.
from Iowa!
