October 23 Lance's Visit
Again I apologize to those who look at this ever so often - I'm sure the number is getting less and less since I haven't done it for a while and you would have just given up on me - hey I give up on me :-)
Anyway, this past week Lance was able to come and visit with us. It was a good week. He spent time with his grandparents and with Bobb. He helped in a number of ways and was an encouragement to us. We are thankful he was able to come even for just a short while.
News of where we are. Most of you wouldn't recognize Bobb any more. He has lost a total of 50 pounds if not more depending on how accurately he knows what his weight was before the stroke. Lance even called him skinny. Now I wouldn't quite go that far, but he certainly isn't the Bobb you all have known and he's looking pretty good. Its probably helped a lot in his recovery too. We pray he will lose the last little bit which is his goal.
He is walking more and more with his cane. If we have to go to Wal Mart or Cabella's (Lance and Bobb went there when we took Lance to Boise to catch his flight home - they said it was huge:-) for you sportsmen out there - he still uses a wheelchair. He still needs improvement in his hamstring muscles and his muscles above the knee. The ones that pull the leg up when it is bent so he will have a more natural walk. Without it he will forever drag his leg up stairs among other things. Pray his brain will start picking that movement up soon. Being able to "march".
His arm continues to be a frustration with not a whole lot of seen improvement. We have purchased an electronic stimulus for it to hopefully improve his brain's ability to "see" movement and catch on. I pray we have not made a foolish move - it is done by prescription and costs $1,200.00 and the insurance does NOT pay for it. But, through the normal methods and time is a factor we were not seeing things move forward because of the spacticity in that arm( "tone"). Pray this will give his brain and muscles the impetus to work together and his brain acknowledge that that is still attached and belongs to it. :-) Bobb works hard on the conventional methods every day, in his chair, in the car, whenever he remembers plus all the other exercises he is told to do.
Language continues its gradual improvement, but according to some of the papers it will slow down considerably after 6 months - I pray that is not true in Bobb's case - he is highly motivated and things become clearer each week - but a long way to go.
We will be going to the Wycliffe office in November to help out for a little while while the bookkeeper is away. We need and want to feel useful again. Bobb and I will work together and see how it will go. We will also need to keep up the therapies besides that during that time. But I'm sure we will have help.
We are so thankful to so many people who have taken time out of their busy schedule to help us in our hour (months) of need. There have been porches put on, food given, finances given, housing given, painting done, companionship given, encouragement given, shoulders to cry on given, a chance to throw again given, Bobb given back Monday night football companionship (he might not be able to communicate much else - but the sports nut is still in there going very strong :-), and driving so I have a day given and car care, straightening and mechanics given and much prayer!!! given on our behalf. You each of you, and I can't name you all, were and are a gift from God and his hands to comfort and care for us!
I made the statement not too long ago that God hadn't given us much good lately and I couldn't trust anything was going to go right or in our favor, but as I look at things in a less stressful light - that is NOT true. God has given us much as I have stated above and much more that we can't even see. Thats where the joy comes from - thats where the peace comes from - This is where it should stay :-)
I just want me to be more together. The inner me and the outer me. I want my house to be more pulled together - it just seems I get further and further behind and it looks worse and worse not better. I'm not a person who handles chaos well and this disorganized mess (mostly because all the storage places are gone right now) is about to get the best of me - such a minor issue I know. There are things going on with some of our children that are really hard that add to the stress. I am a fix it person - but most of the time God has shown me - that I can't fix it - He is the only one to rely on, because it isn't coming from my power whatsoever and all the stressing isn't going to make one iota of a difference :-) So why do I have such a difficult time learning that lesson - that God makes me go through it again :-)
Well anyway, the good things from God are from him alone because he loves us - not because we love him perfectly. May his Name be Glorified!
Kayleen
Anyway, this past week Lance was able to come and visit with us. It was a good week. He spent time with his grandparents and with Bobb. He helped in a number of ways and was an encouragement to us. We are thankful he was able to come even for just a short while.
News of where we are. Most of you wouldn't recognize Bobb any more. He has lost a total of 50 pounds if not more depending on how accurately he knows what his weight was before the stroke. Lance even called him skinny. Now I wouldn't quite go that far, but he certainly isn't the Bobb you all have known and he's looking pretty good. Its probably helped a lot in his recovery too. We pray he will lose the last little bit which is his goal.
He is walking more and more with his cane. If we have to go to Wal Mart or Cabella's (Lance and Bobb went there when we took Lance to Boise to catch his flight home - they said it was huge:-) for you sportsmen out there - he still uses a wheelchair. He still needs improvement in his hamstring muscles and his muscles above the knee. The ones that pull the leg up when it is bent so he will have a more natural walk. Without it he will forever drag his leg up stairs among other things. Pray his brain will start picking that movement up soon. Being able to "march".
His arm continues to be a frustration with not a whole lot of seen improvement. We have purchased an electronic stimulus for it to hopefully improve his brain's ability to "see" movement and catch on. I pray we have not made a foolish move - it is done by prescription and costs $1,200.00 and the insurance does NOT pay for it. But, through the normal methods and time is a factor we were not seeing things move forward because of the spacticity in that arm( "tone"). Pray this will give his brain and muscles the impetus to work together and his brain acknowledge that that is still attached and belongs to it. :-) Bobb works hard on the conventional methods every day, in his chair, in the car, whenever he remembers plus all the other exercises he is told to do.
Language continues its gradual improvement, but according to some of the papers it will slow down considerably after 6 months - I pray that is not true in Bobb's case - he is highly motivated and things become clearer each week - but a long way to go.
We will be going to the Wycliffe office in November to help out for a little while while the bookkeeper is away. We need and want to feel useful again. Bobb and I will work together and see how it will go. We will also need to keep up the therapies besides that during that time. But I'm sure we will have help.
We are so thankful to so many people who have taken time out of their busy schedule to help us in our hour (months) of need. There have been porches put on, food given, finances given, housing given, painting done, companionship given, encouragement given, shoulders to cry on given, a chance to throw again given, Bobb given back Monday night football companionship (he might not be able to communicate much else - but the sports nut is still in there going very strong :-), and driving so I have a day given and car care, straightening and mechanics given and much prayer!!! given on our behalf. You each of you, and I can't name you all, were and are a gift from God and his hands to comfort and care for us!
I made the statement not too long ago that God hadn't given us much good lately and I couldn't trust anything was going to go right or in our favor, but as I look at things in a less stressful light - that is NOT true. God has given us much as I have stated above and much more that we can't even see. Thats where the joy comes from - thats where the peace comes from - This is where it should stay :-)
I just want me to be more together. The inner me and the outer me. I want my house to be more pulled together - it just seems I get further and further behind and it looks worse and worse not better. I'm not a person who handles chaos well and this disorganized mess (mostly because all the storage places are gone right now) is about to get the best of me - such a minor issue I know. There are things going on with some of our children that are really hard that add to the stress. I am a fix it person - but most of the time God has shown me - that I can't fix it - He is the only one to rely on, because it isn't coming from my power whatsoever and all the stressing isn't going to make one iota of a difference :-) So why do I have such a difficult time learning that lesson - that God makes me go through it again :-)
Well anyway, the good things from God are from him alone because he loves us - not because we love him perfectly. May his Name be Glorified!
Kayleen
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