WOW!

So....brought Mike home this afternoon and the best word to describe the difference is WOW! Thank you, Jesus!! He is communicating, wants to start running again, wants to look for a job, is very polite, went upstairs and changed his shoes by himself, sat down and looked at our mail and then promptly wrote a return letter to his friend, Scot, ate slowly....Wow!  He still needed help with his shower and I'm not sure about the other bathroom stuff yet, but hopeful. Tonight he went to bed at 10pm.

He wanted to go run while I went to Wal-Mart to get his prescriptions, but I wasn't ready to let him do that by himself. I encouraged him to just jog around a bit and then we'd go to Wal-Mart.  He tried. Was having trouble picking up his feet and so stumbled a few times.  He trotted around for about 10 minutes or less and was struggling, so then we went to Wal-Mart.  On the way he said: "that was a very short jog". Pray for him as realization sinks in that he just can't do what he used to do....yet.

He had great conversations with Keegan and with his sister, Lynn. After talking with Mike, the first word (to me) out of each of their mouths was "Wow!"  Keegan was even speechless! (for those who know Keegan..... :-)) I praise God for Dr. Sommers, Tom the case manager, Connor the Medical Tech, Heidi, RN, and all the others. Anyway, much more I could say but it's late and I'm tired. Will try to give more information another day.

However, I DO have to tell you what my niece, Coley, and I did today.  One of our relatives wanted to get rid of her 21 laying hens, and Coley and I were interested in getting them.  So this morning, dog crates in tow, we chased around and caught chickens!  It was so much fun!  They were in a chicken house so fairly confined, but there was dust, feathers, squawking, laughter, flapping and general chaos in the hen house for a while. They are not dumb creatures. Now we need to read up on how to take care of them!  Dad is working on making nesting spots for them and I am praying nothing gets them tonight.  They've done really well in the area Coley fixed up for them in the calf barn and were finding places to roost tonight.  They definitely have different personalities too.  One gray one is rather feisty and Coley has already dubbed her "Spitfire".  We have gray, black, white, red, and black/brown ones.  Is an experiment and I hope it works. Too fun! G'night.

Our beautiful ladies. Even collected one egg tonight.