"Best Laid Plans" Part Four "Baffled"

In the last episode of " Best Laid Plans " we left off with Jake being admitted into the hospital.

Three days later we find him still in his hospital room .
He has been seen by three doctors as of this date. Tomorrow he will have a visit from two more. They have taken approximately forty vials of blood , some of which will be analyzed locally , some will be sent off to other states.



In the meantime he is being treated with very strong I.V. antibiotics every twelve hours . Also antivirals five times a day . They are monitoring him closely and now suspect that the original diagnosis of the shingles may have been wrong .



The good news is that the infection is looking better.
Tomorrow he will be having a skin biopsy .
Some of the blood work results should be coming back by then and some won't be back until Friday .



His disposition in general is good .
But his heart is filled with worry for himself and his family .



There is much speculation most of it leaning towards a strange infection .



In the meantime the doctors are..........





Baffled !



Katie continues with her feelings of paranoia over contracting the H1N1 virus as they are now not allowing anyone under the age of eighteen into the hospital .








Unless of coarse it is for an emergency.
She did manage to sneak a visit in the parking lot with her father in his wheelchair.


She even hugged her dad and told him that she loved him .
Now that IS dramatic !



Through the generosity of family there has been an addition to the household ......






A microwave oven !



This helped in calming Katie's odd and strange obsession
with the microwave oven. Her circle walking and head tilting has ceased for now .



Katie was so excited that she celebrated it's arrival by baking Greek cookies in the standard gas oven ?







And what is the secret involving the kitchen that Katie is hiding from her family ?



Or thinks she's hiding .



Diana's guilt over her visit with.........







The handsome young orthopedic doctor , has long since subsided .
The relief from the knee pain has helped her forget about her
selfishness !



However now that her knee pain has subsided
will she continue her obsession with..........







Housecleaning ?


But is it truly an obsession, or just a way
of keeping her worry at bay?



Will the doctors that are caring for Jake
admit that they don't know everything ?
Or even possibly anything ?


And more importantly ,
will he be able to come home soon ?

And what about Katie's little secret ?

Yes , what about Katie's little secret ?


To be continued.......


NOTE: I just want to let everyone know that Jake and I so appreciate all of your prayers and well wishes. I feel blessed to know such caring and thoughtful people!
I also want to apologize for not commenting back to everyone lately. I really do not like when I am not able to do this. But, most of my time has been spent running back and forth from the hospital to home.
I have been following every ones posts early in the morning but just have not always had time to comment .
Hopefully things will get back to as abnormal as it usually is around here and I will have more time!
In the meantime know that I am watching you !
And love you all !