[Troop1020] Fw: Update on Jake Schoenleb

[donna baldwin]

Scouts and Parents,
I'm forwarding Mr. Schoenleb's email onto the Troop since I believe you 
would like to hear some words directly from him.  (Tammy said it would be 
fine to forward Bill's emails.)

I received another email asking that we thank the boys that mowed their yard 
yesterday.  Special thanks to Joey, Austin and Elliott Garza.  You guys 
rock!!

Don't forget to send cards and to call Jake.  (See previous email for 
address or just call Medical City and ask for Jake's room.) It helps him to 
hear from the Troop.

Donna
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William P Schoenleb" <tabs22 at verizon.net>
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Dodd" <williedodd740 at hotmail.com>; "Max R. Price" <maxrprice at hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 12:20 AM
Subject: Update on Jake Schoenleb


>
> First on behalf of Tammy, Jake, Josh and Bill Schoenleb we would like to 
> say
> thank you for your prayers, concern and great expression of love that you
> all have shown and given to us.  It has been a very humbling experience 
> for
> us to receive so much grace from such a wonderful group of friends.  We
> could never truly express how you have touched our hearts in the most
> simplest ways, the calls, the visits, the meals, the e-mails and most
> importantly your prayers.  How Tammy and I  are still standing is truly by
> the grace of God.  The emotional toll has been great but God has been so
> good to us through it all.  It is in quite moments late at night when Jake
> has final fallen asleep and lights are off you are trying to get some 
> sleep
> in the bed next to his that you find the comfort and peace of God.  As I
> fall asleep just thanking Him for the simple things like seeing Jake smile
> or laugh again, to the fact it could have been so much worse than it is. 
> It
> is at times like these when you are exhausted yet can't sleep that you 
> find
> time to thank God.
>
> I always feel bad when I fall asleep in the midst of praying but now 
> realize
> it's in those quite moments alone with God that I find my greatest peace.
>
> Jake had a really rough night last night tossing and turning and scaring 
> his
> dad half to death when at 4:15 I hear this beeping noise and look over at
> Jake and see his monitor shows no heart beat or breaths being taken.  I 
> jump
> up and shake Jake and but he's so tired he doesn't move or respond to me 
> so
> I run down to the nurses station and tell them Jake's heart has stop and
> he's not breathing.  3 nurses run down to the room only to shake him and
> wake him.  It appears his chest monitors had come loose and fallen off his
> chest.  Dad's to happy to be embarrassed and Jake's apologizing for 
> scaring
> me.  Needless to say, I to scared to go back to sleep and spend the rest 
> of
> the night thanking God and watching Jake.
>
> Jake finally wakes up around 8 o'clock and complains how sore he is, I
> didn't have the heart to tell him part of it was because we shook him so
> hard at 4:15 am to wake him up and the fact he hadn't taking any pain
> medicine for almost 10 hours.  Jake wanted to get out of the room for a
> moment so took him around the floor in a wheel chair, first Tammy and the
> controls and he complained she was going to slow, so Josh takes the helm 
> and
> he goes to fast which make Jake real dizzy and weaker from the morphine he
> is on.  He's so weak by the time we get him back in the room that the pain
> jumps up and by the time we get him in the bed he's curling up into a ball
> and   his face is contorted in pain.  He can't hit the morphine pump fast
> enough and finally calms down and falls a sleep for a couple of hours.
> Wakes up and is hungry and acts like nothing happened.
>
> He had a few visitor today which is always a good and his spirit improved 
> as
> the day went on or until Josh comes back from a great day with his buddy
> Luke and Jake starts gets upset.  After talking to Jake the reason he's so
> upset is he wants to know why is it fair that Josh is having this great 
> time
> and all this funny why he is suffering.  A great question and one I tried 
> to
> answer but failed to give him a great answer to.
>
> Tomorrow is a big day in seeing if the surgery to his right lung has 
> solved
> the issue with his lung being fully inflated, there was still a space at 
> the
> top of the lung that had air in it.  Please, please, please pray that that
> air has gone away and his lung has fully inflated.  If it doesn't none of 
> us
> want to think of what the next steps would be.  On the good side, Jake 
> seems
> to be recovering faster this time around than last.
>
> It is with an extremely grateful heart that we again say thank you for all
> your prayers, love and support
>
> Bill
>
>