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**QueenScoopalot** · 06-03-2005, 06:24 PM

I'm so happy for you all Laura!

I must have some sort of connection with that MAN Upstairs, as He always seems to lead me to cats and kittens in dire need of rescuing.

Keep telling us nothing but good news from here on out....

**rg_girlca** · 06-03-2005, 06:34 PM

Gosh, what fantastic news. I am sitting here with tears running down my face as your post Laura, just screams out happiness.
I can feel your excitement and can visualize your perpetual smile.

I am so happy for you, Eddie and your whole family.

Prayers on the way that Eddie continues to heal, both outside and inside.

**catcrazylady** · 06-03-2005, 06:37 PM

Oh Laura this last report has the tears flowing!!! If that is not a miracle I don't know what is! I'm sure 100% is almost unheard of but for some reason I'm not surprised with your family.

With your faith and all the prayers for Eddie I don't see how it could be anything but good.
This has just made my night!!! I will be thanking God all night long for all the great things he does for the wonderful PT family!
Bless you Eddie!!!
Laura I would give anything to grab you and hug the tar right out of you!!!

**Laura's Babies** · 06-06-2005, 09:35 AM

We got a peek at his back yesterday and I was totally blown away by what I saw! His back has healed beautifully!! The nurse said that he will only need the skin transfpalnt (Epicel) on his love handles, that the rest has heals wonderfully! (We were thinking he would need his whole back done.) I also noticed last night that his fingernails are continuing to grow and the new growth is healthy and pink..

The nurse he had yesterday said he ate a little breakfast, lunch and supper and he wolfed down some ice cream last night. He can have anything he wants to eat, it is just catching him awake to feed him. They are still keeping him knocked out to keep him from moving to much since he thinks he can get up and do what he wants.... His muscle tone is about gone and he is going to have to work on building all that back up and learn how to walk all over again. It has been a month now since he has walked...

He looks more and more beautiful, every day! I am just one hell of a happy Mom!!

**QueenScoopalot** · 06-06-2005, 12:55 PM

That's such WONDERFUL news Laura!!!! Shall "Swami Jan" make her next prediction? Eddie will leave the hospital in less than a month...by July he'll be out of there. Sounds like by the way things are going, it may even be sooner.

I'm so glad things are coming along for Eddie.

**Laura's Babies** · 06-06-2005, 01:47 PM

OK, I wrote that in my book Jan! That would set a world record if he did get out that soon.. When he leaves ICU he has to go to stepdown and we have no clue how long he will be there.... THEN, to rehab to get him back on his feet... but He already HAS set records already so................

**Tubby & Peanut's Mom** · 06-06-2005, 07:35 PM

Oh my goodness, Laura, what wonderful wonderful news!

**Logan** · 06-06-2005, 07:40 PM

Laura, I can't tell you how happy I am to read this news!!! What a miracle boy you raised!

Hugs to all of you.

Logan

**momcat** · 06-08-2005, 04:00 PM

Hi Laura!

Eddie and all of you who care for him and about him are STILL very much in my prayers and thoughts. And none of you will be off that list anytime soon. What's the latest word on Eddie's recovery? Is there anything he needs? How about the rest of you? If there's anything at all and I can get it, it's yours!

How are you doing today, Eddie? I sure hope you're feeling much better today yet not as good as you're going to feel tomorrow. You remain in my thoughts and prayers. Bless you.....

**rg_girlca** · 06-08-2005, 06:06 PM

This is such wonderful news Laura. I am so happy for everyone.

Prayers still on the way for your beloved son, Eddie.

((((((HUGS)))))) for you and your family.

**Logan** · 06-08-2005, 07:14 PM

I hope the past couple of days have continued to be good ones, Laura.

**QueenScoopalot** · 06-14-2005, 07:18 AM

Laura, How's Eddie doing this week? Hope he's still making great strides recovering.

Hope you're holding up well too.

**Laura's Babies** · 06-15-2005, 05:39 PM

Did you read my mind QSL?? Or did I mention somewhere that I was coming home on the 15th? I left Norfolk this morning and Rie picked me up in New Orleans this afternoon and I am HOME!!

I hated leaving..... Let me get to a update. Eddie has been really out of it and we thought he was being kept sedated. I told Regina day before yesterday that I wanted us to talk to a doctor before I left... I did not like what I was seeing, he seemed out of it all the time, weak, getting thinner and thinner and non responsive and all the nurses would tell us is that he was doing "Great!"... I could clearly see he was not "Great!"...

He had been having difficulties breathing after they took the breathing tube out and they put in a trake and at first, he was coughing up a enormous amount of gunk... then he stopped coughing and you could hear it choaking him and him fighting to breathe. So, they hooked the resperator up to the trake and I was not comfortable leaving without knowing what was going on. why is all this mucus there, what are they doing for it and why he is still so out of it...

His lungs were damaged in the fire and that is the reason for all the mucus. They put him on a scheduled cleaning out of his airways to keep that clear and since they started doing that, he is breathing so much easier and he is breathing ahead of the resperator so they were going to try to wean him back off of it again...

As for the sedation.. He has not had any... The reason he has been so out of it and unresponsive is his kidneys. The pain medicines he is on has side effects... There are only 2 pain meds for his amount of pain.. One the liver can't handle, the other the kidneys can't (long term).. He is putting out the right amount of urine, but the things in it at off. They have had to make some adjustments to his feedings and one of the things is in the amount of calories he is getting, they had to cut that back and give him a new mix of more of this and less of that. The build up of this stuff in his body effects the brain and that is why he has been so out of it and unresponsive.

He has been on this new mix for 24 hours now and this morning about 6am we went to see him before I went to the airport and there was a remarkable improvement in how he was. (Darn, Now I REALLY didn't want to leave!!!) His eyes followed us around the room and he even tried to wrinkle up his forehead when I told him I was leaving.

He is schedules for surgery tomorrow. They want to go take a look at the rest of him and get one whole side of him ready for his skin replacement Monday.

The doctor assured me that they are monitoring everything hourly and any adjustments needed in his care is adjusted accordingly.

I feel better after talking to his doctor and seeing how he looked this morning or I wouldn't have left and come home. Even with the assurances I got, it was so very hard to leave. Regina's Mom in Atlanta is coming up Sunday so she will not be left alone for long.

OH!! I have GOT to tell you all!! Since I was leaving, Eddies boss set up a meeting with they guys that have been named "Eddies Angels"!! I got to meet, thank, and hug each and every one of the guys that were there and acted so quicky to save Eddies life that day!! You want to know what is so great about them all? They are just ordinary "Joe's".. Just working men like Eddie, your husbands, sons or fathers.. When the meeting was about to wrap up, I announced that I had one rather large request... I wanted to hug EACH and EVERY one of them!! One guy immediately told me "There was no way I was letting you out of here without hugging you rather you wanted it or not!". Regina and their oldest daughter got hugs from them all too and they got hugs from them. (I think Jesse passed on the hugs and just shook hands)

We still need prayers for Eddie, he has a long difficult road ahead and prayers for Eddies Angels too. Some of them are still having a difficult time dealing with what life threw in their path that day. I will tell you what they said in another post in the general section once I have settled in here at home.

**sirrahbed** · 06-15-2005, 06:17 PM

Welcome HOME Laura!!!!

**momcat** · 06-15-2005, 07:52 PM

Welcome home, Laura! Thanks so much for the update on Eddie. It sounds scary and discouraging now but he is getting better even though it may not seem that way. The Doctor's comments sounded positive. Prayers continue to be prayed for Eddie, you, Regina and Rie Rie. For now let the rest of us take over the worrying and praying while you get reaquainted with your little fuzzy buddies. Thinking of you.....