Post Day 6

Jake has been doing well with intermittent bouts of pain and agitation but overall has been his normal cheery self and acclimating to his splint and hand.  We are in the process of weaning him off the pain medication and for the most part the oxycotin is done and we are just using the heavier dose of ibuprofen when needed.  Nona came over for a visit and Jake was very happy to see her and read books.  The big debate was how to handle the turning of the distractor.  Worried about too much pain, we decided to try last night to turn it in increments to see if that would be a better action plan.  Around 8:30 when Jake was asleep, we decided to try a quarter rotation.  A success, Jake didn't move and   more importantly didn't wake up.  Approximately 15 minutes later, we decided to try another quarter.  Jake initially didn't wake up from the turning but shortly thereafter he started crying complaining of some pain.  At that point, there is the debate whether we should just turn it the entire way as the smaller increments still woke him up with pain.   We decided to give him a break and settle for the half rotation as it took 30 minutes to console him back to sleep.  A couple times at approx. 12am and 4am Jake woke up and ask Daddy to lay with him.   He did successfully go back to sleep and overall only needed the pain medication the one time after the turn.   We will have to see how his day goes today as we hope his hand will heal each day a little more.  Jake is going to school and handling it just fine so besides some emotional wear and tear and some sleeplessness, we would have to say it is going as well as can be expected.