The Three Injured Amigos

I realized this week that I can move up on my toes! It doesn't sound like I am really excited but I am! I am just focusing and trying to see results! I realized at church I am in a group of three injured amigos; the first is my mom: she has a bone in her right foot that is crumbling; the second is my brother Ethan, who sprained his right knee as he was practicing football; and my right side is still healing. My mom and Ethan will be healed pretty easy I will take longer! My brother is a goofball.

You will notice the crutches for Ethan, the handlebars for Mom's scooter and then you know about me!

My New Haircut!

My memory of my hair

We weren't in ICU anymore but we couldn't go to the rehab center. I realized that my hair was failing out. I couldn't talk but everyone know that my hair was falling out. That was a tragic experience for me; before everyone got there in the morning I was crying trying to understand why this had to be so hard. I can still look back, and I am weeping as I still don't why it is so hard. From February until September 19, it took me seven months to almost get back all that I had lost!

Good news is that I had a hair cut today, a very very short one. There are pictures of the before and after, plus in the process! 

'Tis a New Month

It is a new month and a new time to reflect on some things.  Chris and I have completed the move into my family's home.  We accomplished it all within two weeks’ time, which was our intent because the fall semester was going to being again at UVU.  Chris received a nice scholarship to essentially cover all expenses for 2 semesters.  It is going to be quite an adjustment to downgrade from our apartment to a studio and a new lifestyle.  At the same time, it presents a great blessing because we can save some money and it will allow me to continue recovery.  All in all, it’s not that bad of a setup.

I have had some difficult nights lately, even to the point of almost screaming in frustration and slamming my left fist down.  It is because I cannot do anything about it.  With my fingers, with my foot, with my inability to speak – if only it was my ability to speak that was impaired I would be more grateful, but it is not.  

Grandma Johnson’s funeral was yesterday.  It was a magnificent ceremony and experience.  Grandma Johnson was so beautiful in her casket with the sacred temple robes on her.  The services were nice, wonderful tributes were given and a Samoan choir participated as they had for my grandpa’s services.  She now is resting by her husband in the Orem cemetery, but her spirit is now reunited with her husband in the spirit world.  Something that I laugh about is that, when getting up to pay respect to her before they closed the casket, I forgot to turn on my Bioness leg device.  So I walked completely under my own power.  I pointed this out to Chris when we got back to our seats!

Here is a Bioness video like I promised.  I am using it more and more each day.  I feel that the devices are helping me – but I cannot get it to work without having my Nike shoes on.  That is frustrating because I want to be able to wear other kinds of shoes!