Dan had an appointment yesterday in Columbia.  He's 5 1/2 months out and they are VERY pleased.  You can see all this new bone growth and it's pretty solid now.  It's always cool to see the evidence of what we're believing God to do!  He will be having surgery again on the 24th of this month.  It's going to be more invasive than we thought and will entail a couple of things.  Early on the tissue adhered to the rod inserted in his thigh and prevents his knee from bending.  They will go in along the side of his knee and up into the thigh to release it.  The other area to fix is on the side of his femur where the big break was.  With all this new bone growth, there's an area splintering off so they will saw if off.  They will look at keeping him a few days to put him on a machine right out of surgery that will have that knee bending.  Then they'll proceed with agressive therapy to get the maximum results out of this.  There are a couple of big risks involved and this is where we need people to pray.  The first is, when they go in at his knee there is a risk of the tendon in his knee snapping.  This would not be good at all.  After all this he doesn't want a knee replacement!  They will do everything to prevent it, but we will be in much prayer about it.  The second is, they can't guarantee how much movement this will give him and sometimes it decreases over time.  We believe that it's God's will that he be completely restored so we are asking God to let this surgery be very successful.  He needs to be able to bend his knee!  To say that Dan is weary of all of this would be a great understatement.  The last 5 1/2 months of his life have been radically changed and some days it's hard for him to see a day when things are normal again.  But, this we know... We serve an AMAZING God who is able to do more (and has done more) than we can even think or imagine.  He has shown himself to be faithful at every turn and we stand on the promise that He will be faithful to complete it!  You will never know what your prayers have meant to us and the difference they've made.  We believe prayer changes things so when we're confronted with what the Drs tell us is truth we know that we hold on to what the real TRUTH is.  God Bless!