February 25, 2012

Mrs. Doug emailed me her update tonight, so I'll just copy and paste it for you to read:

Greetings from Jackson,

We have had a good day.  Had physical & speech therapy today.  Dale is getting stronger already in his walking.  Today they walked him without a brace of any kind on the right leg.  He didn't walk quite as far as yesterday but held himself taller and had much more control of his upper body.  He also got to pet 2 dogs today.  One of them was about as hyper as Buster.  They were long haired.  He really enjoyed getting to pet them.  I wish you could have seen the look in his eyes when he was petting them.  The lady gave me some pointers on how to handle Buster when we get home.
When anyone says OK to him now he will answer back OK, except to me.HA!  He can also say yeah &  no sometimes.  I haven't talked to the speech therapist much yet so don't really know what all he is doing in there.  He is really trying hard to do everything they ask him to do.  The young man that had him in physical was about an inch taller than Dale and made that comment to Dale that he was a little taller than Dale was.  When the guy stood Dale up the next time Dale stood as tall and straight as an arrow and was as tall as the guy.  Dale just grinned when the guy told him he was as tall as he was now.  He was able to move his right leg on his on when he was walking today.
This morning I got out his electric razor which he has never used one and he shaved himself with it and did a good job.  I can't wait to see what happens next week with a full week of therapy.  There will be one speech therapist assigned to him and we met her and she seems really nice.
We've had company yesterday & today.  Always enjoy the company it helps pass the time and is great seeing everyone.

To each of you who reads the Blog and prays for us daily and hourly May God's richly bless you and thank you so much.  There just aren't words to express what we feel for each of you.  Whenever I mention any of you to Dale he gets emotional & so do I.

We love you all,

Dale & Doug

 

 

"¹⁶ “Now then, stand still and see this great thing the LORD is about to do before your eyes! 

²⁰ “Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. ²¹ Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. ²² For the sake of his great name the LORD will not reject his people, because the LORD was pleased to make you his own. ²³ As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right. ²⁴ But be sure to fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you."  1 Samuel 12:16, 20-24

 

Heavenly Father, we find our hope in the fact that You are pleased to make us Your own, even though we are frail and weak.  Forgive us where we fail you.  We ask you to continue to heal Bro. Dale so that Your great name will be known.   In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.