Update

Well, the story continues and new developments continue to challenge us.  Jake has been growing very irritable and is fighting the adjustment of the splint and his upkeep.  It has been tough to do what is needed for him while he cries and flails and doesn't cooperate.  We try to push through but it is emotionally and physically tough.  The new development, Jake's thumb turned red and it was a concern to us.  Some photos emailed to his Dr. confirmed an infection and Jake is now on antibiotics to battle this.  This medicine has to be administered four times a day which requires a lot of Sam including dropping by school to give him his medicine.   On a positive note, we are happy to catch this when we did, as it could have posed a risk to his surgery next week so we are thankful we could nip this when we did.   Interesting  enough, Jake had his five year appt with vaccinations that we wrote about earlier and today we found out that if you can't have surgery within 7 days of them.   Would have been nice if this was clearly explained but that would be expecting too much.  Trying our best to manage the stress but in honesty we are worn a little thin heading into surgery #2 next week.