January 1, 2008

This morning when I (Christa) walked into David's room he was sitting in his wheel chair all dressed and ready to go. I said, "Well, hello handsome!" and he gave me the biggest smile!! I just about melted right there! He said hello and good morning right back. We talked for a bit and then we went to the rec room to play on the computer. I showed him the blog and read my entry from yesterday. When I read him the part about how he thought Kelli was "hot" he smiled again really big! I read him all of your recent comments from right before Christmas and he really seemed to enjoy hearing from everyone. I explained to him how everyone reads this blog just to see how he's doing and how much you all have invested in his recovery. He said he understood and was very appreciative of your support and prayers. After the blog he wanted to play solitaire on the computer but he wanted to just tell me where to move the cards and have me control the mouse. Which was actually really cool because it forced him to talk more and I was really able to see his thought process and also where some of his visual problems are. He could always see the right side of the computer screen but the deck of cards were on the left side and he could rarely see those cards correctly. I'm not sure what he sees or doesn't see or if its just really jumbled up. But it was interesting nontheless. He did extremely well considering between him and myself we couldn't manage to win a single hand!!

After computer time we all ate breakfast at the table together (mom, dad, me and David)and had some delicious french toast my dad made. It was so cool to just eat and talk all together as a family again. Then we took David outside to the basketball court and kicked around a soccer ball with him. He started to really get into it and even would kick with his left foot! He did really good at wheeling himself around to go after the ball (Lord knows with me and my parents, there were a lot of stray balls for him to go after!). Then we went inside and he took a nap.

When we went back later in the afternoon my dad and him went to the rec room and watched some football together for a bit until we looked over and David had fallen asleep in his chair! So we took him back to his room but we made him eat a late lunch. He ate more spinach raviolis from yesterday and polished them off really good. Then I asked him if we could watch the DVD that his friends/co-workers/bosses in Turkey put together. He agreed even with the stipulation that he had to give me some background on each person. He said no problem. We watched the video and paused after each person wished him good luck in his recovery and even joked around with him. He gave me all the "dirt" on each one of you guys!!! Just kidding! But he did give a lot of details about fun times he had with each person. He talked about the Turkish food, the go-carts, working in the office and his responsibilities that he had and the fun times "working" there! He talked about who was naughty and who was nice!! Haha!! It was great getting to see you guys from Turkey and that video really was cool! Thanks guys for doing that for him. He was pretty tired and went to bed pretty early tonight. I guess that's good because he'll have a full day's work tomorrow in therapy. Today was a fun day with David and he showed a lot of progress with his smiling, kicking and moving his left leg, playing solitaire, eating real food and talking a lot. Thank you all for your prayers and faith that God is just getting started with healing David. It is going to be a great year full of miracles!! Love you all,
Christa