Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Surgery??????????

Well today is suppose to be surgery day for Rick's pressure ulcer he has. But after alot of praying and just time we've realized that his sore keeps getting better and better and the bone we use to be able to feel is now covered with pink healthy tissue and every day when I dress the wound it just looks better. So NO SURGERY!!! We called and canceled on Monday and it felt GREAT!! We were excited that we didn't have to stay in the hospital for weeks but we were still dreading the whole bed rest thing. Rick is doing so great and we didn't want to stop his progress and he's finally getting to the point where he likes to be up and about and not just in bed. So we are so relieved and excited and that we are not going to do it. And very worst if the wound stops progressing or gets worse or something we can always reschedule the surgery, but we believe that we won't have to do that. We believe that if we just keep praying and fasting and staying off the wound that it will heal and it will heal fast!! So there is our good news for the day!

Rick is doing great! Before he always had to have the slick board inbetween his legs to eliminate gravity, but now when we are just laying on the coach he can rotate his hips and pull his legs up and down. It's just a little ways but he can do it!! Little progress every day!!! We have therapy tommorow and I'm expecting great things! I'll let ya know!

So... our house... yep still not in. But now we have the deck all done and our ac and most of our appliances. The inspection is tommorow morning and hopefully we'll have good news!! And that's all our updates for now!

Friday, July 25, 2008

Always progress.....



Well yesterday was the 24 of July.. In the morning we walked out our front door and watched the parade. We live right on Main street and the parade goes right by our house! We just sat on Rick's ramp in the shade and watched all the fun things go by. I LOVE small town parades! They have the cutest little floats and animals. When I'd watch the parades in salt lake they were always fun, but they didn't have the same feeling as the parade here. My favorite part was the tiny horses. They were the size of a bigger dog like a lab or something... but they have to be the cutest things I've ever seen! Before I was bugging Rick to get a dog but now I'm wondering if I should start bugging him to get a mini horse!!! Then after the parade we just hung out at home because it was way to hot outside! So we stayed inside and just relaxed. In the evening our friends came over and we all had a bbq. There was 4 couples and their kids and it was so much fun, not to mention yummy food! Then at night time we went and sat in our backyard and watched the fireworks. That is one thing about this old house we're living in right now is that we are in the perfect position for the 24 of july. Perfect for the parade and perfect for the fireworks. It was a great day!!


Well you can probably guess... but we're not in our new house yet. They had a problem getting the trex that goes on our deck delivered and our stove was on back order. But from what we hear next week we should move in for real. The trex got delivered today so they just have to put it on and the little inside stuff should get done this weekend and then appliances on tueday and hopefully move in wednesday or thursday. But in the mean time, our whole house is in boxes. Rick's sister Becky and his mom came and helped me pack everything up, too bad we couldn't move in the next day. Until then we'll just have to find ways to make do. At least when it's time to move in we'll be all ready!!





Well today was therapy day. It feels like we haven't been forever!! Now that we cut down to once a week it seems like forever between therapy sessions. But Rick did awesome today!!! He was moving both of his legs so good and strong! They put him on the treadmill to walk him and his therapists said that he could feel Rick helping! His reflexes are alot stronger and his movement keeps getting better and better! It's so fun to watch his legs move and all the improvement he's making. Next time we go I'll take video and put it on here so everyone can see what he can do!! The improvements and progress will just keep coming and it's going to be so fun to watch it all happen!!



Saturday, July 19, 2008

Well I haven't wrote for a while so I guess it's time for an update. There's lots of pictures in this video... the first ones are from about a week or so ago. Hollan and Ady got the rockband for the wii and that explains the drums, the guitar, and the microphone. I played the drums and I sucked but it was still fun. Don't be surprised if you see us on tv one day being famous for being so good at rockband!!

Well our house is closer than ever!! We found out a last week that we got a deck donated to us!! We were so excited! Some people from Richfield donated the wood and the labor and a company up north donated the trex that is going on top! All that's left on our house is to put the trex on the deck and just a few finishing touches like finishing the banester and just finishing a few finishing touches. As of right now we're suppose to move in next week, so keep your fingers crossed that it actually happens. I'll put tons of pictures of it when it's all done. Rick hasn't seen the house since we first came home from the hospital and all it had was sheetrock.. well last night for the first time Rick went in and saw our house. That's what the pictures are of on the video at the last. He loved it!!! Of course he did... what's not to love!! It was fun to have Rick see our house because now he knows all the wonderful things I've been telling him about.

Rick has been doing great! He keeps progressing. His arms keep getting stronger and he works them out every day. I'm so proud of him, he trys so hard and he does everything he can to get stronger and getting all his movement back. We do weights on his arms everyday and stretch him out, he does a motorized bike to work out his legs and he we do tons of stuff with his legs to get them going. In rehab on friday, they put him in a standing frame and told him to try to thrust his hips forward and back. He did really good! They did some reflex tests on him and said he is still in spinal shock which normally lasts about 6 months. We're in month 4 now... and our theory is, is that as soon as he's out of spinal shock his feeling and movement is just going to come rushing back! I think the fact that he is making so much progress while he is in spinal shock is such a great thing!! Rick I am so proud of you and your wonderful attitude and how hard you try. I fall in love with you more and more everyday and I'm always here for you. I know that if we keep our hope and faith we'll be done with all this before you know it!

We just want to say thankyou to a few people... Robert for fixing our sink for us, Anna and Jen for weeding our yard, my parents for taking us out to lunch and hanging out with us, Becky for the jamba juice and hanging out with us in rehab, Chad and Tiff for all their concern and love, Trav and Mac for calling and getting the updates and always asking what they can do to help, Shay for all his faith and hope, Matt and Mindy for their love (Mindy we hope your feeling okay :) ) Jen and Jake and all their cute girls (Makayla thanks again for fasting for us, you are so dang cute) Hollan and Ady for being the bestest friends anyone could ask for, all the wonderful people that are involved with our house that are helping and donating things to us, Roy Moore for being like our other father and for all the wonderful things he does for us, Stir and Tiff for being the best boss and friends to us, (Rick can't wait to get back to work for you) and I know I've already said it, but both of our parents are pure amazing! I couldn't even list the things they do for us because the list goes on and on. I could honeslty go on for days and days with people we need to thank, but at leasts that's a start! Thank you to everyone!

Friday, July 11, 2008

Well we got the news....

Well, I'll start with Wednesday's adventures because they are pretty exciting. Ya know how I posted that rick could move his left leg the last couple therapy visits.. well on Wednesday he moved his right leg just as good as he has been moving his left! His right leg caught up in like two days! We were all so impressed! And his therapist put him on the total gym which is a machine where rick lays in his back and and the board he is laying on slides up and down when he pushes his legs. Well on Wednesday he pushed himself up... over and over again! His therapist would start it out for him and Rick could do the rest! It was so fun to see!! Today when we went to therapy his legs weren't as active as they were on Wednesday but it's probably just because we were staying in a hotel and we were stressed out over the doctors app. and we didn't sleep very well and we weren't in our routine. So we're just going to work really hard over this weekend and next week and next time he goes to therapy I'm sure he'll blow everyone away with what he can do. We're just going to go to therapy one day a week from now on so that when Rick gets close to walking we won't run out of visits to therapy.. we want to have plenty and not have to worry about it. So we're going to do tons of stuff at home now, and I get to be his therapist. So then when we go once a week, he'll have made so much improvement everyone will be so impressed!!


Well on to the news about our doctor visit and Rick's pressure wound. We went Thursday morning and saw the plastic surgeon, on our way there I told Rick that I never thought we'd be going to a plastic surgeons office. Anyway, we went and talked to the doctor and he told us that Rick is getting surgery on July 30, but we only have to be in the hospital for 3 or 4 days and we get to do all the rest of recovery at home!!!! When the doctor looked at his wound he said that it was just a small one and it would be really easy. So he will be on bed rest at home for 3 to 6 weeks, but judging on how small it is and how determined Rick is I'm sure it will only take three weeks or less. We are SO excited that we don't need to be in the hospital the whole time! It will be hard for Rick to lay in bed all day every day till it's healed, but with all the prayers being said for us I'm sure it will go by fast. We can do some therapy while he is laying in bed as long as we don't put any tension on the wound site. So we can still work out his arms and do some stuff with his legs. We are so thankful to everyone who fasted and prayed for us. It means so much to us, and we are getting so many blessing. We could never say thank you enough to all the people that are helping us through this, but hopefully we will find ways to repay all of you. Your prayers are what is helping us so much, because it truly is all in His hands. I really believe once we get this wound thing all healed up Rick's recovery is going to go so fast and he'll be up and walking in no time!!

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Our house finally got stucko!!
Our kitchen cabinets
Our jet tub... mmmm
Me and Rick on the 4th of July
Rick and Roy and Hollan Moore
Me and Ady


Well it was the 4th of July yesterday... We spent the morning just being lazy and taking it easy. then later on went to Wal-Mart and then Ady and Hollan came over for a bbq. What would the 4th be without a bbq? Then we went to Hollan's aunt's mom's house...I hope I got that right? They lived right by where the fireworks were going off... so we had the perfect seat. It was honestly the longest firework show I have ever seen!!! It was an hour long! I kept thinking it was ending and it just kept going.. and going.. Don't get me wrong I love fireworks but this was way too long! But we still had tons of fun. We talked to some great people and just hung out with friends. Overall the holiday was a great one!
Well as you can see our house keeps moving along. There's only a couple things left to do and it's all done! We're way excited! Now we're just hoping that when it's time to move in we won't be up at the hospital with Rick having surgery. But we'll just pray and fast and turn it over to Heavenly Father.. because he knows what's the best for us. Sometimes it's so hard to see that He knows what's the best.. and sometimes we just want to have everything our way. But I believe that He wants us to be happy, and I also believe that He will heal Rick if we just be patient and keep learning the lessons that we're suppose to, and always keep our faith. It's very hard sometimes, but there's always wonderful people that remind us and make our burden a little lighter.





Wednesday, July 2, 2008

A side step....

So when Rick was in the ICU he got a pressure sore on his tailbone because he couldn't roll back and forth since his neck was broken... pressure wounds are nasty nasty things. We have been battling with this thing ever since he fell. For a little while we thought it was getting better then it got bad again. So we had to start going to wound care at the hospital. We learned that these wounds are kind of like iceburgs.. you just see the tip of them and it just gets worse under the skin. Well when we finally got it all dug out and all the bad tissue gone we learned that it goes all the way to the bone and that his bone right there is considered "bad bone" now and it's just crumbly and flacky. So we now have an appointment with a doctor up north on the 10, and unless things get better, and i mean way way better... he's going to have to have surgery and we'll be in the hospital for three to six weeks to let it heal. They're going to make a flap of muscle to close it up and graph some skin over it. We'd have to stay in the hospital that long because if he'd put any pressure on it at all it would ruin the whole surgery.

So.. we just got out of the hospital and we really don't want to go back. We'll do what we have to do and we'll make it through it.. but we really don't want to go back to the hospital. So we are asking everyone.. please pray for us. I know tons of people already are and we are so grateful for all of you.. but we are so ready for a miracle. And this wound healing up would be a miracle. We're fasting this Sunday which is fast Sunday and we know all of you have things in your life that you're are going through too... but we are asking everyone to fast for us then and keep us in your prayers. Even if we do have to have this surgery.. we're praying that we'll only be in there for a couple weeks.. if we're in there for six, I don't think we could do it. Please pray for us.. we're ready for this whole thing to be OVER!!