hospital Take #...I lost count

Well we are back at the hospital again (Wake Med, one that has not come up in the rotation for a while). Jakob had his appendix taken out last night. He had been complaining of pain after trowing up on monday we we just thought it was a bug. But after an untrasound "just to be sure" he was admitted into the hospital and had surgery last night around 11:00. He has been doing GREAT today and even this morning was getting in and out of the bed by himself and walking to the bathroom. The dr said since it had perferated some to expect to be in the hospital for 5-7 days but I am hoping with the speedy recovery and Jake being so strong it might be less.

My dad was able to come up on Wednesday to help out and my Mom is coming up tonight to help for the weekend.

We are doing well and I will post more as I know more.

Weekend plans

Welcome again. I hope that all of you found your way from the carepages. As I was thinking about going to the RUF reunion in Clemson this weekend I was obvisously thinking a lot about Shannon and the times that we spent there. I then started thinking about creating some memories from Shannon's earlier days before the boys. As most of you know my memory is about as poor as it gets so if any of you would feel confortable positng or emailing me some of your favorite Shannon memories I would love to keep them to share with the boys so that they can know what a special legacy they cary on. I would also love some pictures as I can not seem to find many from my time at Clemson.

Anyway, I think that this is more than I have ever written in one day (dissertation included) so I will say good night and Love you all!

First Post

This is a continuation of the carepages updates for Shannon Dodd. I thought that I would move over here to give people a chance to not have to read the post anymore and to give these updates a little bit more of a permanent home. In case anyone wants to follow the history of what happened with Shannon's 14 month battle with cancer, they can go to www.carepages.com and search for ShannonDodd.

I will write more once I get the update onto the carepages telling people where to go.