A Spoonful of Water Makes the Medicine Go Down...

Kevin is of HIGH spirits, especially the last 24 hours.  He is currently working with the speech therapist on swallowing, and making sure that the liquids do not go down the windpipe.  He is VERY proud of how far he has come with the swallowing.

The staff has even allowed him to SWALLOW APPLE JUICE.  For those who don't know, Kevin has been craving fruit juice, no, not just craving, JONESING!  So, he's swallowing apple juice-it goes right into his esophagus bag by his neck, but it feels and tastes SO good.  He stil has some minimal coughing, but he's doing great and getting those swallowing musclesmoving.

All the Drs came in this morning to speak to us about Kevin's ports for his IVs and chemo.  If they can, with Kevin's fever diminishing, they are looking into inserting a medi-port under the skin that lasts for several months compared to the temporary port they have in now.  They are also going to put in a pic line for more of his IVs.

They did try his feeding tube last night, but had some complications with the tubing, and the nurse accidentally popped the tubing a bit.  Now we have to wait 4 days for the feeding to resume, but in the meantime, they have started him on the IV feeding to get him some of the important nutrients and protein.  This is very temporary, being that his body may try and use that to grow bacteria.

Things are looking great-Kev is swallowing well, we're geting the feeding started, so far no adverse effects from the chemo and we're working up to get him disconnected from the chest tubes so he can get up and walk.

Pray these things keep moving forwards-we are not looking negatively-we are looking at healing and progression.  The Lord's will be done!

PS-I apologize for those I haven't yet written thank yous for the cards and financial help.  So for now-THANK YOU THANK YOU!

We love you all!