September 29, 2007

I am still at the rehab center and improving every day. I talked them into having physical therapy twice a day instead of once a day. That has made a real difference in my progression. When I got here I couldn’t walk more than a few feet with the help of someone and a walker. Now I’m walking 150 feet to therapy with a walker, doing therapy and walking back. Stairs are a hard exercise to do. Yesterday I went up a flight of 9 steps twice.

I’m thinking they are going to kick me out of here in less than a week. I can get out of a taller chair with arm rests ok. If the chair is too low I’m stuck without help. As I progress, the chair height I can get out of gets lower. This has been a slow process.

I don’t know how long it will be before I can get out of the low couch and chairs we have at home. We may need to buy a tall chair for me for a while. We will make it work. I’m so anxious to get home since its been 2 months since I was last there. It is surrealistic to me that I may be going there soon.

All my labs, including the PCR ABL test, indicate the leukemia is all but gone. It’s a waiting game to see if things change and the leukemia comes back. There are a lot of you praying that it won’t. I appreciate your prayers more than you will ever know.

I received an email the other day that really struck me. It was about a teacher who had asked her class to write down the Seven Wonders of the World. One girl sat quietly in the back so the teacher went to see if she needed help. When asked how she was doing, the girl replied that she thought she was doing well but there were so many it was hard to limit. On her paper the teacher saw the following.

1. to see


2. to hear


3. to smell


4. to touch


5. to feel


6. to laugh


7. to love

The greatest wonders of the world are not man made they are gifts we were created with.