A joyous season!
--Dave S. (Demitri) On 12/23/08 10:52 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Friends: > > Yes, it has been almost two weeks since the last update and we offer our > profound apologies. Since coming home from the hospital on December 11 Adam > has made good and continuous progress in regaining strength, appetite, > mobility, and voice. However, since getting Adam back home it also meant it > was time to catch up on all things neglected: mail, cleaning, pets, and the > other children...and this has kept us quite busy. > > Adam has made a couple of trips out of the house to go to church and visit > friends at work. The physical, occupational, and speech therapists have been > coming to the house and will do so for another week. After this, Adam will > be going to outpatient therapies. His trach is about healed The hospital > removed the hardware the day he came home and the only instructions that were > given to us about the care was to change the dry bandage daily. The first > couple of times in changing the bandage was an adventure. Adam sees the > doctors at Shock Trauma on December 24 and then he will have doctor > appointments for the next several weeks. > > Please continue to pray for Adam to regain health, to avoid colds, and to have > discernment about the timing to go back to work and school. > > We thank God for our son being restored to us and we praise Him for the gift > of His Son as we celebrate Christmas. Matthew 1:23, NIV (a quote taken from > Isaiah 7:14), 23"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, > and they will call him Immanuel"‹which means, "God with us." It is the > presence of God through His Son in our lives that gave us the strength each > day to face whatever came. > > We hope to write a little more detailed update in about a week. Thank you > for your kind support. It means a great deal to us and, especially, to Adam. > > Dave and Lisa > > > > > ************** > One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo > Mail. Try it now. > (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom0000002 > 5)
