Hi.  JT continues to do well.  His stool culture came back negative for Rotovirus and C-Diff. Yeah!  Tomorrow the final culture should be back and if it's negative too, then JT will be back out of isolation, which means he can go to the playroom.  He has been shut off this weekend, but did have a fun suprise today when the Occupational Therapist came and said he could still go to the gym while in isolation.  They just had to wipe all the equipment down before JT's therapy and then afterwards as well.  It was good for him to get out of the room and walk a little bit to the gym and then once he got in there he just went crazy - getting all sorts of energy out.  He had the O.T. cracking up.  He did a great job using his arm.  We actually had taken the ace bandage off before therapy to encourage him to use it more.  From an infection standpoint, we still put antibiotic cream on this biopsy site and cover it with a bandage, but the other incision areas just need to be covered with his long sleeve t-shirt.

Besides the big outing to the gym, much of the day was spent in battle.  JT would line up all his guys (dragons, dinos, alligators, spaceships, etc) and I would line up all my guys (usually many less than JT's army) and then it was full out war - bombs flying, people flying, ships flying.  Whoever had the last guy standing won.  As soon as the winner was declared, JT would look at me with a little grin and say, "Rematch?"  We had great fun.

Daddy arrives back tomorrow.  JT's excited and so am I.  This has been a long stay for our family to be apart.  We're all missing each other a lot.  The plan remains for JT to get photo on Monday and Tuesday and then hit the road home Tuesday evening.  We'll head back to Cincy the following Monday to get photo again and sutures out.  Thanks for checking in on us.