October 6, 2008 (Day 23)

Well it’s been a long weekend it was good to see Adam again. He is approving by leaps and bounds if you compare to three weeks ago and it really does seem like a long time ago. He is doing PT in the morning and OT in the afternoon and then more PT in the afternoon.

I have to explain the reason for the delays it has been really hard to deal with Adam injuries if you knew how much energy and full of life Adam is its hard to see him in this shape his PT in the morning is to raise his left and right leg about 10 inches off the table which he struggles with and needs help with his right leg. It takes him about one hour to do three reps of ten. Then it takes one hour for him to do OT in which he has to lay flat on his back and with his arm on a skate like device he has to move his arm to a 90 degree with his shoulder it is so hard on him to do this. In the afternoon PT they have only been able to get him to stand up once for a short time on Sunday.

They took the track out of his neck on Saturday morning, took the wires out of his mouth on Sunday and put rubber bands back in his mouth. He is only able to open his mouth sixteenth to an eighth of an inches. He only able to eat puréed food if any one has been in a hospital and had to eat hospital food just image eating it after its been smashed to baby food yum.

The hardest thing for me is that seeing him surfer like he is I just want to scope him up and hold him and tell him that it is going to be ok and that I will take care of everything but I cant he has to do it all on his own and there is nothing that anyone can do but him.

After he finishes his PT and OT by the end of the day he is so exhausted he is virtually unable to do any thing on his own. I took him out side a couple of times while I was there just getting him in the wheel chair is an ordeal not to mention going to the bath room taking a bath and all the other things that we take for granted.

He is getting better and its going to take a long time for him to get better I am scared for him. He still wants to be a marine and to go back and I hope for him that he does.

This weekend he kept telling me that he love me and his mom and thank you for being there.

Talking about Julia she got some well deserved rest I think after I got her back to the hotel on early Friday morning she slept 12 hours at the hotel while I stayed with Adam. On the Friday night I went back and stayed at the hotel with her and got up early and stayed with Adam on Saturday while Julia slept some more. I just think with Julia health and all the stress she was just exhausted and by Sunday she was felling a lot better.

The updates will be along Adam progress as I learn of his progress each day. They have a meeting once a week where all the doctors and PT get together and have a discussion about his progress I am going to see if they can conference me in on the meetings to see what is going on.