A Good Friday

Hey folks. . . meant to post yesterday but the day got away from me.  Dad's blood INR was good - in the range they want it - it did increase from 2.5 to 3.05, but we will stay at current dosage of blood thinner (yeah) and redraw his blood in a week in a half.  Dad had a good day today at therapy.  His Occupational Therapist passed him thru for another 30 day session.  This 30 day period dad's PT & OT are going to give me a list of the tasks that he can work toward achieving and that way we can begin to work harder at home. Dad had a coughing spell in the middle of last night - but overall he is doing well.  He was still a bit tired today after therapy - that cold has really taken a lot out of him.  He works so hard and then comes home and crashes in his recliner.  His foot looked better today and he was able to use it during therapy.  It is still tender and a bit swollen, but much better.  My brother Dave was busy at the bathroom construction again today.  They are making progress every day... dad's therapists are excited about that getting done so they can add tasks for him to learn to do there that improve his independence at home.  Again, the key to continuing therapy is to keep having goals that make dad more independent and able to help in the care of himself.  That shows that the therapy is improving his quality of life and if we can keep him in therapy, I really believe he can get stronger . . . the area we need to focus our prayer on for dad is that we need a complete healing of his "trunk muscles".  His PT thinks the stroke really wiped those out or at least the ability to balance himself. . . with out the sitting balance. . . we can not progress to walking.   

God we know that you are able to do more than we can think or imagine - we join together to ask you to please return strength and balance to our father (Shug). . . give him the strength to stand up and move from bed to chair. . . even just that would improve his quality of life immensely.  It would give him the ability to get more places. . .and take care of all his personal hygiene - we know that you love dad and you will bless and heal him according to your will - and we pray your will is go beyond what we can think or imagine and then you Lord will receive all the praise and glory - in Jesus Christ name we pray, AMEN!