Eddie is doing so GREAT and I will tell you all the latest great news... but first...
We really need some very special prayers for Eddies emotional well being. He is reliving being on fire in his sleep. I had to sit with him the other night for awhile after he went to sleep and he started moving, jerking and thrashing around so bad that it scared me and I jumped up to look at him. He was making all the motions of jumping around, beating the fire off of him... There was NO doubt in my mind what he was doing in his sleep or what he was dreaming. So he really needs so special prayers for his emotional well being and recovery. PLEASE, pray hard that the trama to his emotional well being will quickly pass and that it can soon be just a bad memory and nothing to fear....
The good news now... Edddie was moved OUT of the Burn Trama Unit and is in Stepdown. That means he is no longer in critical care.. BUT, he has surgery again on Aug. 3 and will have to go back to BTU, but for now, he is out of there. He is going to the gym for physical therapy EVERY day now and has graduated from having to go in the Cardiac chair to a regular wheel chair and we can wheel him all over, anywhere he wants to go now!!! Yesterday he walked 35 feet with a walker and pushed himself 150 feet without assistance in the wheelchair. He is having to learn balance and stuff all over gain but he is doing everything so fast that even his therapist is amazed. She tells him to do more and he tells her he CAN'T and the whole time he is saying he can't, he is doing it! I have cried so many tears of joy this week that it could float that boat I work on. Monday, when he first walked at the parrallel bars, I just sat there and cried the biggest tears of joy that you ever saw. He is fully awake, smiling, laughing and his old self. God is at work here and Eddie is being rebuilt so I say "God at work- Eddie under construction"
On Monday July 23, the day I arrived, Eddie got to go outside and see his sweet little grandbabies that he had not seen for 80+ days. All of them came and the happiness that it brought to his face was enough to melt anyones heart. He got to see his little grand daughter walk! She started walking after his accident so he had not seen her walking. He got to see his youngest grandson crawl.. Eddie fits that Grandpa role better than most and he really enjoys being a Grandpa so seeing those babies brought super extra joy to his heart.
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