Wednesday - May 27

I'm back in the land of the living. I apologize we haven't posted, I've been down and out with a nasty flu bug. I spent 5 days in bed and am still trying to recoup. I was able to finally get up and function on Monday, I made it down to the Art and wine festival for about an hour, I just had to get out of the house. Jerry's routine and care is a little harder on me, I get exhausted by mid day. Each day I get a little stronger and hope to back to normal soon, I still feel like medicine head, a little like my heads in a fog. I pray Jerry or none of the other family get this flu. I wore a mask and washed my hands constantly, I used so much germ killing hand gel the smell of it now is nauseating. Dennis and the kids helped with Jerry's care which gave me the much needed break.

Dennis hasn't been able to do much work on the room this past week he's been taking care of Jer. The room is now ready for texture then paint, we're getting closer. Jerry decided he wanted to have black and neon green colors in his room, so that ought to be fun, we'll be sure to post pics when it's done.

Jerry's ultrasound came back normal, good news he's not pregnant, just kidding :-). The doc has made some adjustments to his medications, he upped the dosage of the nerve pain meds. Jerry's nausea is the same it fluctuates between level 2 and 6. It does seem however to be at level 2 a little more often. Jerry is going to see a Ear Nose Throat doctor to see if there may be an inner ear problem. In June Jerry will have some kind of gastro study of some sort, to see how his food is digesting.

Jerry is getting much stronger in his left arm he seems to have more feeling as in the left arm as well. We got an arm sling set up for the wheelchair and are going to begin working on using the joy stick. I'll have to post some more pics. We are off to SCI-FIT, more later....

Katie