Friday, June 6, 2008

Friday Breakfast

It has been a few weeks since Jake has been able to start his Friday with some food in his system. For the last 3 weeks he has been scheduled for surgery on Friday morning, so he has not been allowed to eat any food after 2am.

For most of us, that is a small inconvenience and we can deal with it. However, for Jake this has been a pretty big deal. Most of us will eat 3 meals a day as well as some snacks in between. Jake eats about 6-10 "meals" a day thanks in part to the steroids that he is on. These meals are not just small things like a sandwich and chips. They are full meals with multiple helpings. Within an hour of eating, he is already looking for something more to eat. It is a very strange thing to watch someone of his size put away this much food.

He was blessed this morning by some very large cinnamon rolls. He said it was very hard to wait for them to be ready because they were smelling so good.

Today he will be heading into the clinic to receive an IV treatment of Chemo as well as having some blood drawn for more tests. We are hoping...No, we are EXPECTING to hear great results today.

3 comments:

tanya said...

Just to give an update, Jacob ate 5 very large cinnamon rolls. That is over half of a 9X13 pan. Belly was happy!

Of course he is now planning his mid-morning snack. Can we just say again how thankful we are to ALL of the amazing families who are bringing us meals.

Thank You! Thank You!! Thank You!!!

ronda said...

that's great but did he save me one :)

Anonymous said...

Hey Jake! We're so proud of you, kiddo! And 5 cinnamon rolls??? Man, you can almost eat as much as Ty and Micah now. =)

We're bringing you dinner tomorrow night - can we take an order, JOsh and Jake? Also, did you know that several of us are running a race downtown in your honor on Sunday, Jake? I've been calling it "Jake's Run." I think you're going to get a kick out of seeing some pictures when it's all done. I know your parents are going to get a few laughs out of us looking so pained and ragged, at least. Hee, hee! Now's the time to activate some of those super hero powers for me, buddy. I'm going to think of you and pray for you and your fam the whole time.

Love you guys! And I'm serious about dinner requests for tomorrow, Josh and Jake.

Vicki for the G's