Jake Inching Back An Inch A Day

Every day and with each Hyperbaric treatment (day 5 was today) Jake seems to slowly be coming back to health. I have learned a lot in this trip to India. The next time we go (hopefully no later than February) we will make the trip in two or three days. Also, I will make sure he wears a mask in the airport and plane so he does not come down with anything. Finally, I believe Jake will need to be on some type of maintenance Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy while he is doing Cytotron as he seems to be very sensitive to edema (swelling) All in all, Jake is a little more alert for longer periods of time every day. He has significantly lost strength in his legs and that is starting to come back slowly. Last week he could not walk at all (amazing since he was doing so well in India) Now this week he is walking with assistance and every day just a little bit better. I also learned that I have to be very careful about him getting dehydrated. I think getting sick at the airport which then led to dehydration, the edema caused by the treatment and the 40 hour trip was what took him out. We are not out of the woods yet. This is still quite a battle, Jake is visibly tired of the it and I can tell he is frightened of the outcome. It is hard to be doing so well and then so poorly but that seems to be the battle of cancer and we have to be stronger, more creative and more determined than it is.