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Today was largely uneventful… aside from scoring a new room. See, it does pay to have a wife that “tactfully” complains. Check out our view now (politely ignore the bird pot, upper left hand corner) And… they turn the lights off on this end of the hallway at night. Lol! Overnight Justin had a couple…

Justin is out of surgery and in his room! Woot Woot! He happens to be snoozing at the moment, but doing really, really well. I can’t tell you what a relief it is to have this procedure over and done with. Not only that, the doctor said, “It went great. Better than expected.” He took…

Surgery tomorrow, folks! Justin is finally saying adios to that pesky ileostomy, hooray! The takedown surgery is expected to only take a “couple of hours” where they will reconnect the currently exposed small intestine to a “blind end” of his large intestine. Over the past 8 weeks (wow! 8 weeks!) his large intestine and colon…

Yesterday Justin had CT imaging done to verify the resections in his large intestine have healed properly and no leaks were present. Everything looked good and there was no discomfort. Justin did notice a narrowing on the scans, however, with the colon being non-functioning for the past two months, like anything else, it had simply…

I hope everyone is enjoying pre-summer summer! The weather has been pretty darn awesome here in Denver. Most days when I get home from work, Justin is out on the back deck watching the bees, our expanding family of squirrels (we had 4 babies this spring!), and listening to tunes. Seems like a great way…

I guess someone has summer in mind… This showed up on our doorstep and I smiled. My heart was elated Justin ordered this beauty without a second thought. I know he’ll be excited to feel well enough to use it and spend time with all you golfing buddies out there! Justin was even a little…

Justin had his second post-op appointment today and escaped without IV fluids. Woot Woot! The doctor says things are still looking good and that he’s doing well. We were able to schedule his ostomy repair surgery (June 14th) and the couple of appointments leading up to it. His weight is holding steady at about 40…

This week hasn’t been much in the way of visual improvement particularly seeing as Justin is officially 40 lbs down from his starting weight. He seems to be eating more, however, he still has bouts of nausea and indigestion. He staved off IV fluids… until today when I asked him to do it as a…

Today we celebrate Carter. My now 10-year old little boy that makes my heart sing! This is a Yarbrough birthday tradition… like finishing Leadville, only better. We’ve had cake and presents and lots of smiles! We also got out and enjoyed the beautiful day! Justin is feeling well’ish today. The best I’ve seen him yet!…

A quick shout out to all our hospital visitors. This isn’t a complete list… I tried to get pictures with everyone, but some of you snuck in while I wasn’t there or I just didn’t get a picture (dangit). Either way, love you all! Of course, many of you wanted to visit, but Justin wasn’t…