Pat’s Progress

Can you believe it has been one year since our lives have changed? This day last year I received the phone call that no one wants to get, that a loved one has been hurt and is on the way to the hospital. I spent the next few weeks in a fog but thanks to all of you I received so much love and support it helped to pull me through. Pat spent them in and out of consciences and at times fighting for his life.

I have spent the last week reflecting on this past year re-reading all your posts, laughing and crying. It has been a hard year but along with the bad, so much good has happened. Believe it or not this the hardest post that I’ve written to this blog. I have written and rewritten this at least a half a dozen times and probably still wont get all the words right. Pat and I still don’t know why this happened and have stopped trying to figure it out, maybe it was time for Pat to slow down and smell the roses.

In this year Pat has made considerable progress. He has gone from only being able to move his shoulders to being able to control his arm movements down to his elbows. He has gotten different sensations through out is body and hopes to regain more. We are looking into some different programs to help strengthening his muscles and regain as much movement as possible. The other day during therapy he sat up unassisted for 13 minutes. Who knows what the future holds but we refuse to give up.

I’m not sure how many people actually pop in and see the site anymore since we don’t really write much in it now. I try an update at least once a month but at this time the progress is slow but we are getting there one little muscle twitch at a time. I will let you know when we start the new training program and what gains Pat has made. Maybe one of these days I’ll get Pat to write his thoughts in this blog since it is his. I would also like to let you know that we would love to hear from you, give us a call or stop in and visit us.