Annie's Apple Daddy

Hey everyone! Not too much to say tonight. It was kind of slow at the hospital today.

Unknown to Jerid, he had an appointment to have a chest x-ray in radiology this morning. He had just started eating his breakfast when they came for him, so they said they'd come back.

I got in just as he was finishing breakfast and Scott from physical therapy had just shown up. He, Jerid and I went for a walk. (No walker or oxygen) We went up and down the halls and the boys started talking about heavy metal bands because Jerid was wearing his AC-DC pajama bottoms today. They just kept walking and talking and I got bored and went back to the room.

Jerid came back wiped out, so he rested for awhile. The lung coordinator, Diana came in to check him out. Diana is not only Jerid's coordinator, but his Philly girlfriend. The two of them have gone out to dinner several times since he's been here. Anyway, Diana was full of good news. Everything is looking great.

X-Ray still hadn't shown up to take him down, so the nurse called down and said they'd be up at 1:00. So Jerid skipped his very appetizing hospital lunch. We planned to get something from the cafeteria and take it outside for a picnic. At 2:00 when they still hadn't shown up, we left. We got a cheeseburger and grilled cheese and sat outside. It was a beautiful day. Of course when we got back we were told that X-Ray came for him. Ooops. There we go ticking hospital staff off again.

Jerid was still wiped out and I think slowly got paranoid about feeling so tired and crappy. So the mood was a little down today. But no worries, we made the most of it and hung out in bed watching reruns.

An Ear, Nose & Throat doctor came in and got Jerid all set to have his next surgery on Thursday. He's having the collagen injected in his vocal cord. This should give him his voice back. He says he'll be so much happier when he does.

We were just getting ready to go for a walk when of course the doctor came in. He also said that things are looking good. When Jerid told him how tired he was, the doc wasn't surprised. Jerid had the blood transfusion last night, so his blood counts are in the OK range, but still very low. So of course he's tired! That made Jerid feel better. He needs permission from the doctors to be lazy. The doctor is going to try to get Jerid home on Friday, but he says he's not making any promises.

Jerid called around 8:30 and said that X-Ray came and took him down. Well, that only took 12 hours. I'd say they were working at top speed today.

So that's it. I told you today was pretty uneventful. Jerid must have worn off on me because I'm super tired tonight. I'm off to bed... but of course not before a couple of chapters!