What a difference today was as compared to yesterday!! :)
Jake slept really well last night and didn't experience as much pain as he has the last week or so. :) The extra dosage of the sleeping aid helped! It was great to see him happy and even joking around with me. :)
He awoke this morning as the result of a phone call from his Sgt. He told Jake that his leave forms are all signed and ready for us to pick up and get our tickets arranged! :) We couldn't believe it!! Yesterday we were told that we had to get a dental exam and today they are saying that everything is done and we can proceed. This news made Jake happy and hopeful. As we were eating breakfast, Sgt. called him again and told him that he was bringing the papers directly to Jake in the dining hall at Mologne. Again, we were shocked! He gave them to Jake with a huge smile on his face and told him to have a great leave. :) We asked him about the dental exam. He said to try to get it before we left, but if we couldn't, then get it when we come back down. I think our mouths just dropped. What a difference from yesterday.
We headed over to the hospital to see Jacqui (his inpatient occupational therapist) to set up an assessment that he has to have every month, and, to give her some gifts from VT. She wasn't there, but the assessment appointment has been set for tomorrow morning. As we were strolling into the OT room, Jake's foot accidentally got bent back underneath his chair--OUCH!! He was in extreme pain. :( We think that he tore some scar tissue because of how much pain he was in. We wanted to get him back to our room to rest, but we had to get our flights arranged. So, after taking some pain meds, we were on the run again to get plane tickets.
Our flight arrangements and our transportation are all set! We are definitely coming home on Thursday!!! YIPPEE!!! YAHOO!!!! :) Just seeing the travel itinerary in our hands brought smiles to our faces. :)
We returned to our room and Jake rested while I did laundry. We got lunch and headed over to see his nurse case manager. The nurse case manager was frantically writing things down so Jake would have everything he needs for his leave. We tried all day yesterday to get answers from him so everything could be ready back home for Jake to continue his recovery. It looked like his nurse finally realized time is short and he needed to get on the ball. It is indicative of how reactionary rather than proactive it is here. We will need to stop in his office sometime tomorrow to make sure everything is all set.
We also stopped back at his Sgt.'s office to find out where Jake needed to pick up all his uniforms. His Sgt. was on the ball and had Jake's duffel bag with his uniforms just sitting there waiting. Now this man is proactive :) After talking to him for a bit about Jake's leave, Sgt. asked Jake what is in VT. We smiled and proceeded to tell him about maple syrup, teddy bears and the like. :) Sgt. was very interested in the maple syrup and in the VT teddy bears. Jake told him we will bring some VT products back down with us. Sgt. smiled and said that he has pancakes almost every morning! We laughed and said that we will definitely have VT maple syrup for him. :)
I had to break some sad and terrible news to Jake. There were two VT National Guardsman killed in Afghanistan. :( Our hearts just sank and our thoughts and prayers immediately went out to the families. We can't wait until our soldiers are back home in VT safe and sound. We constantly pray for them and for their families.
We are very excited to come back home, but wish that all of our soldiers could come home too.
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