Wow! I am a crazy boy! why do I say that? Because I must be crazy to want to hang out in this hospital for soooooooooooooo longgggggggggggggg. I have been here since June 5th, and I am really getting ready to go home. My bags are packed I'm ready to go. I wish I was leaving on a jetplane. To a place far away. Perhaps Hawaii, yeah, that would be great! I need a vacation from this place ya'll call earth! I need a paradise place like hawaii! To bad though that Dole has closed the pineapple production orchards their, or so I hear.
I am breathing on my own now, and even my little heart is beating on my own too! Pretty cool huh?! I still have a tube up my nose, down my throat, and into my gut, but hey I'm alive baby! I'm alive! Remember that Living life lively is to be Alive! How many of you can say that you are doing that? The lively living part? Are all of you living life to its fullest? Enjoying every breath God has giving you? Doing things today you have been putting off for ever? Feeling perhaps a breath of fresh air that you have been craving forever and a day?
Man oh man, I am so thankful to God, our Father in Heaven for every breath I am able to take. For every minute spent with my family. For every drop of the concotion that the nurses call food that is pumped into my tummy through the "tube".
My hand is sort of hurting a bit. MORPHINE! Ahh, the answer to my prayers. This stuff is cool! It says, pain, pain, go away, I am going to sleepy night, night land today! Ah yeah! But remember, to get this you'd have to be a sick person like me, so I don't recommend that. Thank goodness for modern medicine! Wonderful compared to just a few decades ago, yet archaic compared to Dr. McCoys' practice! lol ( remeber, lol means a joke!) Are you listening uncles?! Stay away from the morphine! lol
So, they tell my mom and dad that I am slowly getting better, which stinks, the slowly part. I wish Drs' Woods, Boville, McClosky, Pascal, Asplen, McCready, Kim, Stefanelli, and the rest could figure out a get better quick pill. I would be so grateful to them. I hate IVs in the tummy! Give me drugs you evil pokers of flesh! Or be gone you vile creatures!
Well, I gotta go crash after I toot!
Go and enjoy yourselves for goodness sakes, God made us to have joy!
Jared Joseph Proudlock
Friday, July 18, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Ole McDonal had a farm!
I am so jealous right now! I know that I am not supposed to be, but I am. Yesterday my siblings went to a farm! Yup, I real life, chickens, sheep, and things farm, and right outside of Kent towards Covington. Yes, there is still the rural part of King County left, even after all the building up the past decades, or so I am told.
Well, Savannah, Mark, Nalana, and Janae had a blast. They chased the animal through the grass, of which was tall as savannah, and way taller then the rest of them. They even brought home some yummy farm raised eggs! I am so jealous, did I mention that? I have to sit here in this hospital bed all day and night. At least I seem to be getting better.
The Dr. says my heart is doing well, and my lungs too. I am having a little trouble with my tummy though. It doesnt hurt much, but I am retaing a bit of water, and can't really digest food like the nurses and doc thought I could yet. So I am back to IVing it with a vitamin supplement and sucrose based yum yums.
They are going to have to call in a doc that figures out what is wrong with my tummy and fix it up all nice and swell.
Mommy has been coming every day to visit me as dad went back to work this week. Mom tells me that dad wishes he could come up every day too, and misses me something terrible! Alas, he doesn't play the lottery, so we are going to be rich, so he has to work, lol.
Mom even brought her "sister" Rebecca with her yesterday to visit with me. I sure like Mom and Becca, they are so nice, and read books, plays music, and talk to me alot. Moms cousins Phil and Josie have come up alot to see me too! I sure love visitors, especially family, coming up to see me and talk with me.
Well, I need to rest for now, Hope to see some of you soon! Oh no! I just fluffed!
Jared
Well, Savannah, Mark, Nalana, and Janae had a blast. They chased the animal through the grass, of which was tall as savannah, and way taller then the rest of them. They even brought home some yummy farm raised eggs! I am so jealous, did I mention that? I have to sit here in this hospital bed all day and night. At least I seem to be getting better.
The Dr. says my heart is doing well, and my lungs too. I am having a little trouble with my tummy though. It doesnt hurt much, but I am retaing a bit of water, and can't really digest food like the nurses and doc thought I could yet. So I am back to IVing it with a vitamin supplement and sucrose based yum yums.
They are going to have to call in a doc that figures out what is wrong with my tummy and fix it up all nice and swell.
Mommy has been coming every day to visit me as dad went back to work this week. Mom tells me that dad wishes he could come up every day too, and misses me something terrible! Alas, he doesn't play the lottery, so we are going to be rich, so he has to work, lol.
Mom even brought her "sister" Rebecca with her yesterday to visit with me. I sure like Mom and Becca, they are so nice, and read books, plays music, and talk to me alot. Moms cousins Phil and Josie have come up alot to see me too! I sure love visitors, especially family, coming up to see me and talk with me.
Well, I need to rest for now, Hope to see some of you soon! Oh no! I just fluffed!
Jared
Friday, June 27, 2008
Food, FOod, FOOd, FOOD!
Ya'll don't even know what hunger is! Today is the first day since Sunday night that I had anything tangible to eat! Well sure, they gave me some sort of liquid imitation nourishment through my IV, but get real, it was not food! There is nothing more tastier then fresh milk, right from the best source in the world, Mom! Yummy stuff it is. So I am now allowed to start eating 2 cubic centimeters of food, distributed over a whole hour! No, that isn't alot. It will definitly keep me slim and healthy. Hey, this sounds like a great eating plan for some of you too!
So the fact that I am able to actually consume some tasty, nutritious, milk means I am getting better. Yeah slowly but surely for now I seem to be getting better. I was only able to take the milk through a tube that goes all the way past and in my nose to my tummy. So the tastiness of todays milk is still up in the air, but if it anything like last Sundays........ OH YEAH!
I hear its better then a T-Bone steak right off of daddys grill. Whats that you say you havn't had a steak off my dads grill, you are missing a part of the meaning of your exsistence! When I was up in heaven its all I could do to not take a big whiff of those tasty morsels! Definitly something I am looking forward to. Hey, I got an idea. You, reading this blog, should invite yourselves over to pops place and chow down on some yummies! Just tell dad that I sent you, you see, I got an "in", with him. lol
So, I am being weened off of the ventilator, today I had regular mix of air going into my lungs, as opposed to yesterday wherein the mix had a forty percent concentration of O2. Today it is 21% of O2. I did develop a mild splotchy rash from some anti-biotic, of which the doc stopped that one and started me on a new one. That is one thing too that I am still on is a lot of meds right now. A whole med tree sits by my bed with seven or so branches of meds on them, although not everyone is being used at all times.
I can't wait to go camping with my family, and also meet some girls at church my age. These nurses are sweet and nice and stuff, but for reals they will be grandmas by the time I can even date at 16!
Thank you for all your prayers for me. The fact that I can sit here and eat, and have my heart do its pumping thing with out the ecmo machine is evidence to me that God lives! Jesus is the Christ! He has His true and living church on this earth today! That blessings received by the laying on of hands by my daddy, and Brother Palmer, do work, and Heavenly Father hears the prayers of all off us, His children.
Well, I got to go and fill up another diaper, have a great night!
Jared
So the fact that I am able to actually consume some tasty, nutritious, milk means I am getting better. Yeah slowly but surely for now I seem to be getting better. I was only able to take the milk through a tube that goes all the way past and in my nose to my tummy. So the tastiness of todays milk is still up in the air, but if it anything like last Sundays........ OH YEAH!
I hear its better then a T-Bone steak right off of daddys grill. Whats that you say you havn't had a steak off my dads grill, you are missing a part of the meaning of your exsistence! When I was up in heaven its all I could do to not take a big whiff of those tasty morsels! Definitly something I am looking forward to. Hey, I got an idea. You, reading this blog, should invite yourselves over to pops place and chow down on some yummies! Just tell dad that I sent you, you see, I got an "in", with him. lol
So, I am being weened off of the ventilator, today I had regular mix of air going into my lungs, as opposed to yesterday wherein the mix had a forty percent concentration of O2. Today it is 21% of O2. I did develop a mild splotchy rash from some anti-biotic, of which the doc stopped that one and started me on a new one. That is one thing too that I am still on is a lot of meds right now. A whole med tree sits by my bed with seven or so branches of meds on them, although not everyone is being used at all times.
I can't wait to go camping with my family, and also meet some girls at church my age. These nurses are sweet and nice and stuff, but for reals they will be grandmas by the time I can even date at 16!
Thank you for all your prayers for me. The fact that I can sit here and eat, and have my heart do its pumping thing with out the ecmo machine is evidence to me that God lives! Jesus is the Christ! He has His true and living church on this earth today! That blessings received by the laying on of hands by my daddy, and Brother Palmer, do work, and Heavenly Father hears the prayers of all off us, His children.
Well, I got to go and fill up another diaper, have a great night!
Jared
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Tube up my nose!
There is a big tube up my nose! Well, okay, a little one, but still, it's up my nose none the less. Good thing I am in sleepy night night la la land from the cool drugs I have. Yup, that of the narcotic nature, but don't worry, the nurses aren't letting my uncles have any! lol
So, my surgery came and went on monday, and I sort of had a little trouble with things, my heart went into arrest, and had to be pumped by the surgeons hand. I had to be put on an advanced life support machine called ecmo. The letters represent some really long acronym that I forgot in the middle of being told what the phrase is! On mon, tues, and wed, I was becoming more and more stable with my numbers on the tv monitor thingy, so the Dr decided I would come off ecmo on thurs morning. Well, that is exactly what happened. Today I was weened off ecmo, and am doing stable. I am still in a serious state of being, and not out of the woods yet. Dr. Woods, the heart surgeon, says in a few days he will feel more comfortable about lil ole me, and my lil' er ole heart.
I am so glad for all the prayers to our God-Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. I truly believe that if we will let the our Lord Jesus into our lives, have faith, that he will bless us. We only have to let our Father have our love. I try to remember that we can only come to the Father through His Son, Jesus Christ, our Saviour!
Jared
So, my surgery came and went on monday, and I sort of had a little trouble with things, my heart went into arrest, and had to be pumped by the surgeons hand. I had to be put on an advanced life support machine called ecmo. The letters represent some really long acronym that I forgot in the middle of being told what the phrase is! On mon, tues, and wed, I was becoming more and more stable with my numbers on the tv monitor thingy, so the Dr decided I would come off ecmo on thurs morning. Well, that is exactly what happened. Today I was weened off ecmo, and am doing stable. I am still in a serious state of being, and not out of the woods yet. Dr. Woods, the heart surgeon, says in a few days he will feel more comfortable about lil ole me, and my lil' er ole heart.
I am so glad for all the prayers to our God-Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. I truly believe that if we will let the our Lord Jesus into our lives, have faith, that he will bless us. We only have to let our Father have our love. I try to remember that we can only come to the Father through His Son, Jesus Christ, our Saviour!
Jared
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Finally
Well, its surgery time finally! I can't wait till all this stuff is over. My dad just experimented with a new rhubarb pie recipe and I am seriously craving that yummy treat!
So, monday, the 23rd I get a one of a kind design on my chest, no you dorks, not a tatoo, a cool scar, people will think I am a pirate, or been scuba diving down of the coast of South Africa with Great White sharks!!
My parents are a little worried, yet surprisingly calm at the same time about me going to surgery. All the doctors and nurses are really great, and Sister Thompson will be there to help ease their minds. I hope she brings me some of her oatmeal cake, I will sneak it behind moms' back, dad..... he is a push over so he'll probably just eat some with me, lol
Will keep up ya'll prayers for me, and remember, Living Life Lively is to be Alive!!
And also, Live, Laugh, Learn, and most importantly, Love, yup even you too!
I love you all, and a big thank you to all of you that have come to visit my mom, and me in the hospital, now I know who the ones are that care.
Talk to you later
Jared!
So, monday, the 23rd I get a one of a kind design on my chest, no you dorks, not a tatoo, a cool scar, people will think I am a pirate, or been scuba diving down of the coast of South Africa with Great White sharks!!
My parents are a little worried, yet surprisingly calm at the same time about me going to surgery. All the doctors and nurses are really great, and Sister Thompson will be there to help ease their minds. I hope she brings me some of her oatmeal cake, I will sneak it behind moms' back, dad..... he is a push over so he'll probably just eat some with me, lol
Will keep up ya'll prayers for me, and remember, Living Life Lively is to be Alive!!
And also, Live, Laugh, Learn, and most importantly, Love, yup even you too!
I love you all, and a big thank you to all of you that have come to visit my mom, and me in the hospital, now I know who the ones are that care.
Talk to you later
Jared!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Posted on June 29, written June 22, 2008
Mydad and mom came to see me in the hospital today. They received a really big surprise! A huge tube up my nose!!!!!! Well okay, not huge, but a tube none the less. OUCH!!!!!!!!! Boy did it feel uncomfortable putting it in that place, good thing I didnt have any boogers!!!!!
I overheard the nurses telling my Wonderful daddy, and Beautiful mommy, that they are going to put food in it, and that it goes right down to my tummy! Bonus!!!!!!! I get to eat and sleep at the same time, I know you are all jealous now, at least all you other daddys reading this. lol
Pretty cool huh, I mean about the lol thing. I betcha didnt know that I had a vast knowledge, for a baby, about computer acronym slang. For those of you that give a hoot, lol means laughing out loud, somewhat like, hehe, but way more computer geekish!
I am also told that I will be getting a new look come monday. What is it you say, can't wait to hear, on the edge of your seat in anticipatory drool? Well...................I will have a cool chest design! Yup, a one of a kind, never imitated, or possibly repeatedable piece of art on my chest! No you big dork, not a tatoo. A really cool incision! (please dont try this at home) Yup I am the winner of a seldom done surgery, seldom if you take the ration of the worlds population vs. the amount of participants in such a wonderful undertaking. (is this a good place to put one of those lol thingys?
Although I eavesdropped on my folks conversation and overheard about monday, I will still continue to wait patiently before I actually see them prepping me up for the big day.
Well, I have to go snort down some dinner, so I wll sign off now, and end with this new cool saying that Savannah told me. A penny saved is a penny earned. Also, a penny saved is a penny closer in going to the Puyallup Fair!
So try to come and visit me or I might have to stick a tube up your nose!
Living life lively is to be Alive!
Live, Laugh, Learn, Love!
I overheard the nurses telling my Wonderful daddy, and Beautiful mommy, that they are going to put food in it, and that it goes right down to my tummy! Bonus!!!!!!! I get to eat and sleep at the same time, I know you are all jealous now, at least all you other daddys reading this. lol
Pretty cool huh, I mean about the lol thing. I betcha didnt know that I had a vast knowledge, for a baby, about computer acronym slang. For those of you that give a hoot, lol means laughing out loud, somewhat like, hehe, but way more computer geekish!
I am also told that I will be getting a new look come monday. What is it you say, can't wait to hear, on the edge of your seat in anticipatory drool? Well...................I will have a cool chest design! Yup, a one of a kind, never imitated, or possibly repeatedable piece of art on my chest! No you big dork, not a tatoo. A really cool incision! (please dont try this at home) Yup I am the winner of a seldom done surgery, seldom if you take the ration of the worlds population vs. the amount of participants in such a wonderful undertaking. (is this a good place to put one of those lol thingys?
Although I eavesdropped on my folks conversation and overheard about monday, I will still continue to wait patiently before I actually see them prepping me up for the big day.
Well, I have to go snort down some dinner, so I wll sign off now, and end with this new cool saying that Savannah told me. A penny saved is a penny earned. Also, a penny saved is a penny closer in going to the Puyallup Fair!
So try to come and visit me or I might have to stick a tube up your nose!
Living life lively is to be Alive!
Live, Laugh, Learn, Love!
Monday, June 16, 2008
http://www.jamiesheart.org/jaredProudlock.html
So my dad has me hooked up with this really cool group of people who started a foundation to help little kids like me. I hope you all can take the time to check out the link to this site which I have made the title of this posting. Also, email my parents if you give a hoot, or want to know whats going on in the life of lil ole me. rubblemp@msn.com is my dads email, so dont delay, volunteer today to come see me, and my brother, and sisters! Be sure to read all the blogs I have written before checking out anything else though, I wouldn't want you to miss out on my wonderfulness!
Catch ya'll later.
Jared Joseph
Catch ya'll later.
Jared Joseph
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