Last week we hit the 7 month mark! Josh has been doing well, he still has the wound vac but it is healing up faster than expected. In fact on Monday at wound care he talked Dr Booth into taking it off on Friday. He made a bunch of calls that day to get all of his doctors to release him to go back to work. I think it is driving him crazy being at home so much, he says he is ready to get back to work. I think it will be good for him, I just worry about the hours he says he wants to start back at. He wants to go back to almost full time and then after his evaluation with the neuro doc on the 15th he is hoping to be released to full time. I worry a little about him being able to handle the 10 hours days but I guess he feels ready. He has improved quite a lot as far as his mental state goes, he seems more like himself than he has since this whole thing started. He seems ok with how things are going for the most part. He still has a long way to go in order to be more like he was physically, he is still weaker than he was and he has a hard time sitting very long. It makes me sad that he can't stay at church with me the whole time and that he can't go to the movies anymore. I hope that his sitting parts get better enough one day that he can do those things. He still has pain and a lot of numbness all over his body. He spends a lot of time out in his shop, I think he has cleaned out every drawer and shelf about 3 times. I am so glad that we bought this house last year and he has that space, I now he would have gone crazy by now if he didn't have some kind of escape.
I go to wound care now and then and to most of the doctor visits, but he has had to do more of the appointments on his own. It is funny though when I stopped going every time our wound care friends would always ask where I was, he says they like me better than him. They are a great bunch of people. I have been staying busy with my many projects. My dad and I recently fixed my sprinkling system, did the rough plumbing for the addition and we built a fence so my chickies won't eat my garden. It is an awesome fence. I am so happy that my dad has been able to help me with these things, it is fun to spend time working together. Last weekend we also had the cement poured for the addition, a good friend of ours brother did it on the side to save us some $, it is nice to have it done. From here on out we are doing all of the work, crazy I know. I am just hoping we can get to the point where the outside is done before we run out of money. There are so many things I didn't think about when I tried to calculate the cost, like having to pay for a proctor test so they could do our compaction test for our footings, and it wasn't cheap! I probably wouldn't have started it had I known about all these other things. It really is needed though, 6 of just just don't fit in 3 bedrooms. I think I would loose my little Asher in all the stuff if he had to share a room with his brothers but he is just getting to big to share with his sister. It will be nice for the two older kids to have there own rooms. Josh will help with the electrical when we get to it, I am glad he will be able to contribute. Thanks to everyone for your continued concern for our family. It is nice to know that people care and still pray for Josh's recovery. Much love, Denise
