Progress & Set-Backs

Mike has been doing well and he is slowly gaining back his appetite. I think there was a real change in appetite once his sense of smell started to improve. He is eating, and enjoying, small meals now and even making occasional requests for certain foods. Mike currently weighs 192 pounds which would probably be terrific if a bit more of his weight was comprised of usable, toned, muscle mass. Alas, it does not. He has some work to go on building back muscle mass.

We walked around the block this morning. That's a start. :)

The surgeon called yesterday. A sample of the fluids still draining from Mike was sent for a culture when we visited his office last week. Results are in...Mike is on another round of antibiotics. There is a resistant staph bacteria brewing deep inside him which probably accounts for the acrid odor permeating from the open wounds in his abdomen.

100 MON

Jacob took on the challenge, and achieved his goal of riding 100 Miles of Nowhere! I am so proud of his efforts to support cancer research along with his own drive to become healthier and improve his own physical fitness. He has certainly taken on this challenge with a passion. He started cycling only a few short weeks ago and has already tackled such a huge milestone.

He started out his ride at 4am with 63 degrees ambient air temp. When he finished his ride nearly 7 hours later, the temperature had climbed to a sweltering 93 degrees with the heat of the asphalt reflecting back up from below his feet while the sun beat down from above. The last two hours were greuling but he continued on to finish the ride. Hooray Jacob!