A Big Day

Jon's day started with a date with the speech therapist for breakfast. He had pancakes and syrup, juice and milk...the only hitch? the pancakes and syrup were pureed into a mushed up heap! Still he ate most of it. The respiratory tech came in and put a cap on the trach and removed the ventilator from the room. Jon said "Bon voyage" as it went out the door. If all goes well he could have the trach removed completely but we have decided to take our good old sweet time. He's been almost to this point too many times and then disaster has struck.

I had to dash back to Barb's at 11:30 so I don't know what he had for lunch but he ate a good deal of it I heard. For supper it was chicken and dumplings, brussel sprouts and a soft sugar cookie--all pureed of course. Doesn't like brussel sprouts in any shape or form. Pureed sugar cookies taste almost like cookie dough but he ate several bites of it and all of the chicken.

Tonight the tech gave him a good soapy bath and a shave, we left him in the good hands of the tech and he's all ready for company tomorrow. Several friends from Defiance are supposed to come. Greg is coming on Saturday and mom is heading back home for the weekend.