Thursday July 30

Sorry for the delay in updating today. Things move fast and without warning here!!

What started as a routine visit with Justin found us having no son in ICU room 9 on the 4th floor of the Marcus Building. Instead, we were politely informed that he was moved to room 203C on the 2nd floor of the Shepherd Building.

Wow--getting shuffled over there found us almost starting over once again. A new nurse trying to get Justin settled, another tour of what's where, who to speak with when he can't be found, his wheelchair came up to the floor as we were getting the quick tour of the therapy room (which is noisy, full of adrenaline and we felt like we were in an awful lot of peoples way).

Our first glance at him told us it would be another day of ups and downs. He was laying flat, no Justin attitude at all, was almost teary looking. He said he was in bad pain--pretty sure it had a lot to do with moving to a new room yet again. He was clearly frustrated with the pain and the fact that it was taking time to get him settled and get his pain meds to him. At one point he actually said he was going to be sick to his stomach (that was new, after 28 days, I had not heard that until now--he's also sneezing more, last night was a first for that too).

He truthfully is going to get a hard lesson in learning how to do things on someone else's time frame and agenda. And this floor let me know real quick this isn't like CCU or ICU--this is fast paced with many other people that may come before Justin. They were polite enough to allow us to visit (kinda of bend some of the visitation rules since he transferred without warning), he ate better lunch-lasagna (not your mama's version but he ate it all), french style green beans (ate about 1/2 or so of those) and key lime pie--ate about 1/2 of that. Lunch time gave me a scare because he knew it was coming that he would produce more secretions and he ended up almost choking and couldn't breathe.

As of 12:20 GA time, he was finally stable and laying naked (he had a 101.4 temp) but finally got his SPO2 back to 93-95 after being at 88. HE has ice packs under his underarms and his "junior" area trying to rid the fever and is getting Ibuprofen for both pain and temp.

I felt more comfortable leaving him. We do Orientation at 3 and hopefully find out a LOT more of what we can expect. This has all been such a whirlwind of information yet we still feel as though we know nothing of what is to come. WE continue to ask each of you to pray for Justin's recovery. Getting him up and moving is the next goal we feel will truly start the recovery process. Thank you all so much. We love you guys and continue to appreciate the prayers and support and encouragement.

Scotty had met many other family members and the miracles are truly around us in hearing their stories and their recoveries. We know that through prayer and support and strength, we will all come through this.

Update again once we know more. Love you guys!!