Thank You!

Last night was truly AMAZING, we are so blessed! As we arrived at the Fire House I felt a little nervous, I was worried Jerry might get overwhelmed or tired or nauseous. I was fearful someone would ask Dennis or I to say something in the microphone. Neither Dennis or I do well with public speaking especially in front of such a large audience so I was glad nobody yelled out "SPEECH", I might have passed out. :-) We didn't know what to expect and we certainly didn't plan such a grand entrance. We were outside trying to figure out how we were going to get the wheel chair in and someone suggested going in through the bay doors and off they went to get the door open. I can't begin to express the shock we felt with the standing applause. The feeling of love and support and kindness was so overwhelming, as I looked around the room and saw so many friends and family and familiar faces. We have been so blessed by this community, I don't have the words to express how grateful we are, all I can say is thank you. Thank you Sherri, Jennifer, Kris, Leanne, Gary, Sharon, Marci, Mary and all the other volunteers who made the evening such a huge success, we are forever indebted to you. Thank you community, friends, family, and loving strangers for supporting our family.

Jerry truly was awe struck at the amount of people willing to come together on his behalf, he felt wonderful. I was concerned it would be to much for him, all he had to do was say the word when he had enough and we would get him back to the hospital, Jerry never reached that point. He enjoyed seeing friends and talking with people, he said he felt really good. There was no nausea, no pain, and he has been off the pain medicine for several days now. Jerry said he felt like he could sit in his chair for many more hours and be comfortable which is a big deal he's usually counting the minutes until he gets out of his chair. It was wonderful to see his big smile as he talked with friends.

Today was a much needed day of rest. After getting back to the hospital around 10:00 and getting through the nightly routine it was about 1:00 am before we finally were able to get to sleep last night. Sundays are Jerry's day off from therapies and he wanted to sleep in and spend the whole day in bed watching movies. I let him indulge to some extent, we did do his range of motion for an hour and he got a shower. Last nights event and today's lazy day was very therapeutic for Jerry and he felt great today. Until now Jerry has had very little feeling past his bicep however today he was having feeling half way down his forearm. He could feel pressure when you touched his arm and could identify with his eyes closed where he was being touched. Jerry also moved his wrist, just a little twist of the wrist. He was so excited over this because there was no mistaking this was controlled movement. Jerry also in the last couple days has been saying he feels his abs, when he tries to flex his abs you can feel the muscle contract ever so slightly. I praise God for these moments, glory to God for answered prayer, He has sustained us through this tragedy and continues to take care of all our needs. God is using all of you wonderful people to meet our every need in supporting Jerry through this crises. How blessed we are!

Thank you,
Katie