1 Grammy ready geek
9 visitors to Scott's room
4 load of laundry
1 trip to Target
2 Starbucks coffees
1 excited contest WINNER
4 personal wins at hospital room Hangman
1 full minute of standing for Scott
3000* empty calories in junk food *not an actual number, just more of a feeling
3 hours in the car
1 beautiful little girl
1 exhausted, full, grateful, blessed Mama
Scott has been causing nothing but trouble. Just look at him. Passed out drunk...AGAIN
Scott has been working super hard in PT.
We'd like to introduce everyone to PT Nate. Not to be confused with SICU Nate.
Say Hello!
Hey, you? Yes you!
I didn't hear you say hello. Try it again.
Now that was better. Thank you kindly.
I won't take any rude blog readers. 
PT Nate is in his last year of school. So, that means we also get PT Kate to help supervise or "stupidvise" in Scott's case.
PT Nate makes Scotty work, real hard. 
Just look he's making Scott sit up all by himself.
Come on Scotty - let's go it can't be that hard. 
What's that you want to smack the camera out of my face. Come and get me big boy.
Awe, too bad. You lose.
He makes Scott work on standing too. 
The standing is coming along. You'll notice there isn't quite as many people hovering around Scott.
Scott is pushing himself to his absolute limits with each stand. A few of them have lasted 45seconds. HUGE improvements.
Then there is OT. Scott has created a little bit of trouble. He's got the OT therapists fighting over who is going to work with him.
This is OT Becca. We like her.
Come back soon Becca. 
All work and no play makes Scott a dull boy.
So I let him have some fun today.
Had a wonderful visit with Jen and S4.
They bribed their way into our room with pizza, rootbeer and the most heavenly cupcakes my fat ass has ever experienced. 
We ate an obscene amount of pizza.
It was so incredibly tasty. It was from a little joint called "Piece" not far from the hospital. DELICIOUS!
Then there were the cupcakes.
Oh sweet heavens. Seriously life altering cupcakes. These were imported all the way from Indianapolis.
Scott gives them his seal of approval.
We ate so much food that S4 fell into a food coma and needed to try out Scott's new air matress bed.
I showed S4 my mean side and deflated the bed with him in it. 
We have to do this to Scott every time we get him in or out of bed. It's pretty funny to watch. Scott agrees that it's more fun to watch than to be in the bed.
My Aunt Lynn and Uncle LaVerne drove all the way up from Iowa again to watch us lay around in our food induced haze. Had a very enjoyable afternoon with everyone.
Thanks Jen and S4 for all the great food. I don't think I will be eating again anytime soon.
Tomorrow will bring a few more visitors (YEAH!) and some more rest with a little sprinkle of work thrown in for good measure.
See you on the flip side.
The three Witt's are feeling quite sleepy. Little Witt is tucked safely in her bed already happily snoring. Daddy Witt has been given his drugs and is hopefully pain free enough to be sleeping. Mama Witt... Well Mama Witt is doing what Mama Witt does.
Full and proper update with lots of great photos tomorrow.
Jen said...
Its the sun---meaning the sun was out!!! And yes your driving!!!
That's right it's the sun! I didn't know what it was at first when I drove in on Wednesday. And for those of you not in the area (or as a refresher to those that were in the area that day) it was snowing by 2pm.
Ahh Chicago....I love ya.
Jen is now the proud owner of an iTunes gift card!!!!!
You can load up your iPod for your 30mile runs. Wait, maybe you shouldn't win I don't like over achievers. Seriously, how do you run that much?
Alright, I'll let you win but only because I still think you're cool because you got on the kindergarten school bus the year before me. Me and my childhood psych issues again.
Lots of fun stuff happening today. More details to follow.
Disclaimer: This contest is not sponsored by iTunes. iTunes doesn't know I exist. iTunes would not know me in a dark alley or in the light of day. This prize is a direct result of a cleaning project in the home office that uncovered the extra gift cards I purchased for emergency Christmas presents. Thank you, thank you very much.
This contest is only good for those of us that are in the Chicagoland area. Sorry to all the out of state blog visitors. It's nothing personal, they'll be plenty more contests for everyone in the future.
Just answer one simple question - What's this?
This time I have an honest to goodness predetermined prize. The first person to correctly answer the above question will be awarded one $15 iTunes gift card. It's shiny, green and looks good in wallet. I have some excellent musical suggestions for the winner.... can you say Debbie Gibson?
Ready.... set..... GO!!
Disclaimer: This contest is not sponsored by iTunes. iTunes doesn't know I exist. iTunes would not know me in a dark alley or in the light of day. This prize is a direct result of a cleaning project in the home office that uncovered the extra gift cards I purchased for emergency Christmas presents. Thank you, thank you very much.
This is Scott - you guys remember him right??? No? Well trust me it's Scott. 
This is Scott sporting the latest in hospital wear. You'll notice the shoelace waistband pants. Made of the finest burlap cotton this side of the Mississippi.
It's not a worsted wool suit from Armani but it's the first clothes he's had on in 22 days.
Scott had a very busy day today. Lots of hard work. We got him up in a wheelchair. It's the same, exact wheelchair as he had last time. You might remember it.
Look at how little Kate was....awe....
Scott worked hard all day. He had lots of visitors. Plenty of old faces, Nate (SICU), Pam (PT from last stay), Carole (OT from last stay and this stay), Keira (RN turned friend last stay), Terri (OT last stay), plus the rest of the staff that hasn't changed much.
Some new friends too, Dan (Kathy's boyfriend), Nate #2 our new PT - he's in his last year of school and is being supervised by Kate who we had on occasion during the last stay.
Things are off to a good start. Scott was completely exhausted and famished
Hello cheeseburger with ranch dressing.
Scott's pain, as expected is worse tonight. They have switched up his pain medications so hopefully we'll get things under control fast.
They also moved Scott into a new room #625. Larger more spacious accommodations for the King of JRB.
Stay tuned kids... I've got another photo contest on it's way yet this evening. This time I actually have a giveaway for the contest. Super cool, dontcha know?
In the words of George Jefferson -
" We're moving on up...to the east side...to a deluxe apartment in the sky" Almost......JPG)
Here are his deluxe accommodations for now. They are working on getting us a more spacious room. Those frequent flyer miles working for us..JPG)
Here's Scott's fantastic view. .JPG)
Now don't all of you come rushing down here at once.
Seriously, no complaining here. It's good to be here and moving one step forward.
Scott did PT today. He was up and standing. His stand is looking better and better. It still takes 3 of us and it's only one legged but he can stand for 30 seconds-ish with all of us holding him up. Big improvements.
Tomorrow will be a big day with some serious PT and OT. Scott is going to be exhausted, which is a good thing.
I'm feeling better. Miss K has a double ear infection AGAIN. That poor girl was up most of the night. I ended up having to have my parents drive out from Palatine (35 minutes) at Midnight to help me out. I was still feeling crappy and I knew I needed to have my A game for today so I called for reinforcements. Thankfully I have wonderful parents. Mom spent most of the night sleeping on Kate's floor. Now that's love.
Had a wonderful but too brief visit with Rod, Esther Mae and Allison today. So good to see them again. I've missed my second family so much.
Hopefully, I'll be heading home for the night shortly. Tomorrow will be another early, long day for all.
