23 May - He is eating :-)

The feeding tube is out! He pulled it out for about the fourth time last night and the speech therapist came and evaluated him and said we'd have a one day trial. He wouldn't eat much for lunch, but dinner he did better. He is quite expressive about his dislike of the food :-) He is feeding himself with his right hand, and doing the grooming things. He is much more alert than the day before.

Finally got someone to talk to me about his condition and what possibilities are ahead. I was really tired of "we don't know" She said well we don't want to make promises that won't happen. I tried to tell her I just needed some generalized something. She said everyone's brain is different. She didn't want me to get the impression that after that large a stroke he'd be what he was before - sometimes I think medical personnel just think you are just plain stupid or that normal people can't face reality. God can do more than they think, or he can chose to leave it to the "norms" They finally gave me a pamphlet of information that they should have given me almost a week ago. It helped to explain a lot. She said it would be a long haul. I told her I knew that already. That nothing was going to be instant. But what are the possibilities? We will see what God decides to do with Bobb's brain and working around the damage. As far as his speech goes - it will be slow going - new neuron pathways will need to be developed. He has both expressive dysfacia and receptive dysfacia. We will have to work on his left-side neglect. We don't know if he'll recover his left visual field deficit. In the end we don't know what he can recover - and there is always hope and a lot of hard work ahead.

We continue to need your prayers from moment to moment. He hasn't lost his faith in the Living Lord, of that I'm sure.

Thank you all for praying! We continue to cherish everyone!