John's second return home

Whew! John finally was released from what I would call a crap stay at the hospital. It got a little crazy at times with the doctor. Some of those nurses were amazing and took really good care of both John and I. We wanted the cool ones to stay and hang out with us, but they had other patients that were in need. We heard about this one guy who wrecked on his motorcycle and broke a lot of bones, so between him and John his nurses were busy! Luckily John's sister was able to come down and help with the girls, she and her kids came down from Idaho right away and helped out tremendously! I don't even know how to thank her, she was a busy bee for the whole week!!!

Luckily John got to come home on Wednesday. John sister Missy and I had a little celebration planned. We were so excited, and the kids were too!(Before John got home)

I am so crazy lately I forgot to bring John a shirt to come home in. I felt bad he had to wear his gown home, but he made it look good. haha Missy and the kids made posters for John and wrote cute notes on the windows, they decorated with green because that is John's favorite color. It was way cute, Thanks MISSY!!!!!!

Here a few more pics of the party!!!(I think Mack was the most excited to see John)

(Not great of the kids, but still precious!)

Hospital Stay

It seems like it's been a long time that John has been in the hospital, I have been staying up there with him and coming home almost every day to check on the girls and for personal hygiene. I think I could see grease dripping out of my hair tonight, I was so nasty! haha Feels good to come home for a few.
John is feeling a lot better, they scared me last night and said that if he doesn't start breathing deeper or coughing he could get pneumonia. He had a fever of 102.5 and they were freaking out because of it, which made me freak out. Luckily his fever went down late this afternoon and he is feeling a ton better tonight. Last night was a pretty rough night for him. I feel so bad I have to watch him be in so much pain and all I can do is try to help him feel comfortable, I think since his surgery I have readjusted his pillows like 45 times.
I think he thinks if he moves into a different position he will feel better, but it's not working out so well. Tomorrow morning they are going to stop the suction on the chest tube and see how he is doing without it. He will not be coming home tomorrow.
John's sister Missy drove down from Idaho to help us with the girls. So nice of her! She has been helping a ton and we don't even know how to thank her! She brought the girls up to see John tonight because John was really missing them. They said hi to John and then were interested in all the things around in his room. It was a short visit, but hopefully everything John needed. I have been missing them too! It's weird not being around them.
I have a lot of people to thank for all their help and support through all this! I will be posting about that soon.

I have been feeling very comforted during all this and for some reason I am doing pretty good, just tired from not getting much sleep. I am just worried about John and hoping he can get over this soon, so he can move forward and get his treatments he needs.(This is the tube that was in John's back the first time. Starting from the gauze was all inside his back. That's why he is in so much pain, mostly.)

oh great, John has a high fever, hoping it isnt too serious!!!!

Surgery Today

So instead of the Doctor taking his chest tube out this morning, we heard news that they want do surgery on his lungs to ensure that his lung doesn't collapse again. Now I was working this morning so John's sister is up there with him. So I don't know any details about what they are going to be doing. Please pray and send good thoughts for John this morning!! I just got news that they are taking him back to the OR right now. All I know is that he will still have a chest tube when he gets out of surgery, so I feel bad for John, he is just very uncomfortable with that dang tube up his back!

He called and talked with the girls just now and said he was nervous. I will update on how he is doing when I hear and have time to share. I am heading to the hospital asap.

What the....

Yesterday John's lung collapsed and we all went up to the hospital and they put a pack on his back and told him that since his vitals were normal he could be sent home and wait till his lung went back to normal. John said yes to going home, not wanting to have to get another chest tube in his back.
But all day he was coughing a ton and he had fluid coming out of his back because of his lung collapsing that last night he was in a lot of pain and he started to swell pretty bad. So around 11:30pm after calling his doctor, we decided to go to the ER.
They brought him right back and waited for his doctor to get there. They worked fast and got him all ready to put the chest tube in and told me that I needed to step out. Right before John had asked me to come hold his hand because I could tell he was a lot anxious about it all. I walked out and told him I love him and he looked at me and told everyone "I don't want to, I don't want to do it."
They didn't really give him good pain meds and just numbed the area a little bit, he told me today that he could feel them cutting into him. By the way I forgot to mention they had to cut a new hole in him for this chest tube. Sucks!
The doctor told me after "Well this usually doesn't happen." So that's not cool! But hopefully it will be okay. While I was home showering John's friend called me and told me that they decided to sew up that other hole which cause the collapse. So that's good.
He will hopefully come home tomorrow, but may need to be in there a while longer to get his pain under control and make sure his lung stays inflated.

I can't even believe all the help and offers for helor us! It's more than words can say and I don't even feel like I am seeming grateful enough! If all I can say is thank you in return, it just doesn't feel like enough!! I love everyone and I am so thankful!!

Radiation tattoos (gross photo)

Yesterday at John's radiation appointment he got his first tattoo! I thought it was awesome because I had seen this episode of Friends a long time ago about how Phoebe wanted a tattoo but she was nervous about it. It was hilarious! So I called John's six dot tattoos planets as seen from a very far distance. Here is a pic of John's wounds from his surgery on Monday if you look close you can see a black dot with the ink all around it. That's one of his six new tattoos. He is still pretty sore, but doing a lot better!!
Don't forget to watch the clip from the friends episode below!! :)

Friends Pheobe's Tattoo