Day 80

Sunday, February 5, 2012

This has been a great week for Bob!  He continued to stand up in therapy all week.  He increased the number of times he stood and length of time each day.  He is starting to be able to transfer from his bed to his wheel chair better and do more of it on his own.  He is eating better so they haven't had to do tube feeds for most of the week.  It sounds like they will be removing his feeding tube in the next few days.  On Saturday night, Bob asked his male nurse to give him a blessing because he had had kind of a hard day on Friday.  His nurse told him he was honored to have been asked and that was the first time a patient had requested that from him.  It was a really good experience for Bob, his nurse and for me.  We talked about his accident again and he was taken back by the details.  I think he realized what a miracle he is when I explained it to him.  He is making good progress and each day he seems to be getting a little stronger.  He worked out on a machine that looks like an elliptical machine but you sit down to do it.  He did that for 12 minutes and said he really liked it.  The most exciting news for this week was today, he took his first steps!  It was really exciting and he was really proud of himself!  What a great thing to have experienced!  I am so glad that I got to see it!  I think this next week will be as good, if not better than this week has been.  He is really working hard so he can come home.  He realizes that he isn't strong enough to come home quite yet but is willing to work hard so he can.  He asked our Bishop to give our ward a message from him today.  He wanted everyone to know that he loves his Heavenly Father and that he knows his Heavenly Father loves him and is blessing him.  What more can be said?  Thanks so much for your continued prayers in our behalf!