August 17th

For those of you who know Matt, you know how much he loves his coffee. Well, after a month of not having coffee he got his first cup of Starbucks since he got sick. He does not like the coffee that they make here at the hospital and was complaining about it this morning. Just another way that I can tell that he is getting better!! This weekend is not as intense as during the week. They only work the patients for an hour one time a day, where they work them an hour 3 times a day during the week. On Saturday the OT people were here and they worked on getting the muscles in his left arm loose and relaxed. He did very well with that and today the PT person came in and he worked on posture. He also had Matt lean on the table and use his elbows and forearms to support his body and then squat. Matt said man this is hard, but it is a good way to strengthed his legs. All in all it was a good weekend. He is eating more and more food. To start out with he would eat his tray and then between breakfast and lunch they would give him a can of stuff like Ensure and the same between lunch and dinner. He told us that after eating all of the food on his tray he was getting to full when they would give him the Ensure stuff. The nurse said that if he are more than 50% of his tray that they would not give him the Ensure. The physical therapy doctor is amazed at how well Matt is doing. Keep praying for strength, because it is working and he is able to handle more and more therapy each day. We also went on a ride today. We went down to the 3rd floor to visit the nurses and then we went outside and enjoyed the rain. It was good to see him up and enjoying the outdoors again. It has been over a month since he has been outside, except for 2 rides to change hospitals. Anyway, I wanted to update everyone before it got to late. Take care and we love you all. Thanks for sticking with us and continuing to pray for Matt and his recovery.