The most exciting news today is that they did remove his neck brace during the night! Carolin's Mom, Tracey, was there when they did and it was nice to know someone familiar to him was by his side. We feel so fortunate to have doctors and nurses who have shown Jason and our entire family such heartfelt compassion. The hospital tries to set it up so that Jason has consistently been with the same nurses and most have really gone out of their way to go above and beyond in our opinion. One of these is Chris, who is frequently with him at night. When the neck brace came off it was Chris who shaved him and after seeing some pictures of Jason left his goatee on. J will be excited to wake up and find he still has that which he worked so hard for!
Another example of Chris's taking good care of Jason is earlier in the evening when Tracey threatened Jason with Justin Beiber music, Chris said, "No I don't think I could do that to another man." Then he leaned down to Jason and whispered "I got your back man." Not a surprise to us who know Jason that people have gotten so attached to him!
For now his Trauma Doctor has decided they will do the tracheostomy tomorrow morning. This will give Jason's lungs another full day of healing. Once that is done they can start weaning him off of some of the drugs which are keeping him more sedated. So we are hoping that maybe by Thursday the neurological assessment can begin again. Once we have a clearer picture of what we are facing the Dr's will better know what rehab he will be needing.
Today's other news is that they are supposed to try sitting him up in a chair. He keeps trying to sit up so hopefully that will go well.
A lot of people have been asking if they can contribute to a fund for Jason, Carolin, and the baby. Because they are due in 3 months and there will be no income coming in for awhile that is being set up. It will go thru PayPal and right into an account at J&C's bank in Lancaster. I'll post links as soon as they are available.
In yet another example of team power one of Jason's good friends has started a Face book page called, "Jason Shepard Fan Club", which anyone can join. There are so many messages up already!
Today is one week and there will be many more weeks we will need your messages, your hopes, your support, and most of all your prayers each day for Jason to make a full recovery and as so many have mentioned see his big smile.
"Risin up straight to the top
Had the guts got the glory
Went the distance now I'm not gonna stop
Just a Man and his Will to Survive!"
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