May 13th
Happy Mother’s Day! I thought this would be a difficult day for Donna, but she’s handling it well. Her sister Deirdra took the trouble to buy a gift and a couple of cards for me to give Donna from Paige and Aimee. My plan was to get up early, retrieve the cards and have them and the gift set out for Donna when she came in for her coffee. So I walked out to the car and looked in the trunk for the gift. It wasn’t there. Not only was it not there, but the trunk was neat and organized, not a mess of strewn about bags and baskets as it was the night before. Then I remembered that the night...
Read MoreMay 12th
As we near the end of the day, Aimee’s important number is 33%. This puts her 12 points away from Aimee Day. I incorrectly said in my last blog that Aimee’s oxygen would be decreased down to zero. I know that got some giggles from medical professionals. If Aimee’s oxygen intake were to go to zero, then that would spell doom for everyone in the world, because the air around us is now 21%. Ah well, you know what I meant. Look, my days have been like this lately. Stress and sleep deprivation do funny things to a person. On Thursday I was talking to a friend on the phone and I was looking...
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“The miracle continues. The words I hear from the medical professionals to describe Aimee’s continued recovery are “astonishing”, “incredible”, “confounding”, “mind boggling” and “unbelievable”. All those are fitting words. My favorite word is “miracle”. Several days ago I asked you to pray specifically for Aimee’s lungs. On that day her lungs were stressed and damaged. Aimee desperately needed healing in that one area of her body so that the rest of her body could heal. When the prayers started, Aimee required 100% pure oxygen to be fed to her through a...
Read MoreMay 10th
It has been a long day. I just plopped on the sofa and went to sleep in a matter of minutes. Let me simply say that Aimee’s neurologist reported that her brain function is normal. We know this because she desperately wants to communicate with us whenever we go in her room . The only way to communicate is for us to pick the topic in the form of a yes or no question and allow her to nod or shake her head. Yet there are so many topics that she needs answers to. We have quickly learned that this method of communication only stirs her up and makes her attempt to speak, which causes her to move...
Read MoreMay 9th @ 9:40am
I haven’t been able to see Aimee yet this morning, because the doctors are working with her. They are now running tests on her good foot to determine the blood flow there. Her circulation to her extremities has been poor and the doctors are doing everything they can to make sure that they do not have to remove any of her digits. Aimee’s surgeon said that they are going to perform surgery in the ICU unit to remove some dead skin around the area of her amputation. This will help speed the healing of that tissue. I cannot say enough about the wonderful work that the medical staff is doing...
Read MoreMay 9th
On Friday night, after being told that Aimee might not survive the night, my sweet mother-in-law Jean West looked at me and said, “Here we go again!” My wife Donna looked confused, but before she said anything, her sisters Deidra and Debra said, “Yep, we’ve been here before.” Donna’s confusion was justified. She didn’t remember because she was the first miracle I enjoyed in my life. Twenty three years ago, Donna suffered a closed head injury as a result of a head-on collision in Spartanburg, SC. It was raining heavily that day when Donna swerved out of control into the path of...
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