Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

On Sunday morning we all (including Stacie, Gail and Mike, the nurse) went to church at the chapel in the VA hospital.

Then Patty and her friends took off to ‘carouse’ around town, while David and I ate a ‘diced’ hospital lunch. OK, I didn’t really eat the stuff. OK, maybe the ladies didn’t ‘carouse’. But David did eat well, and then he had an hour and a half of PT. He rode a stationary bike, kicked the soccer ball (while sitting, standing between the parallel bars, and from his ‘cool walker’), and then walked back to his room. He had a really good workout, only marred by the fact that he hit both Chris and Mitch. Chris got hit, according to David, because Chris kept straightening David’s head as he tried to improve David’s lopsided posture. Mitch got hit for repeating what Chris said! We hope that this behavior passes soon.

When David reached his room he was ready for a well-earned nap.

Tonight he woke up after 8 PM (that’s a long nap), and visited with Gail, Stacie, Patty and Me. He shot Gail with a Nerf dart gun and a huge smile on his face. We showed him photos (that were from his camera) of his trip in Turkey over Columbus Day weekend. He told us who all of his friends were, but couldn’t remember a lot of the stuff that they did. When Stacie asked if they met some girls on their trip he said, “No”. After a short pause he said, “Not because we didn’t try”.

Patty quizzed him again on the facts that he is supposed to remember, where he is, how he got there, the date, time, etc. He got 100%, and might be considered ‘out of his comma’ now. That's a great Christmas gift for us!

Our friend's brought mail up from Riverside, and I wanted to say thanks to our friends at Sherman Indian High School, for their, caring, praying and support. It means a lot guys, thanks!

Please pray for David's "hitting others", that he would use his words instead or just lashing out. Also, he told Mike and Patty that his shoulder hurts a "10", on a scale 1-10, and his hip hurts a "9". We need to find out why, and how to help it. Thanks for your prayers! Have a great Christmas Eve and Day.

Steve