Wow, just to give you an idea of the God we serve... Here we are 7 months out from Dan's accident. There's been 5 surgeries, countless hours of therapy, days we thought we'd never make it through, and this morning at his therapy session he rode a bicycle for the first time! Things have been going so well since his latest surgery 3 weeks ago. It was so successful and he continues to see improvement. He started therapy up again this week and came home today so excited about the fact that he could ride the bike! It was like he was a lil guy again riding for the first time! He just shook his head and said, "Jen, can you believe the goodness of the God we serve?!" God continues to let us see one milestone after another and experience His power at work in our lives. And it couldn't have come at a more needed time. Yesterday was a really tough day for Dan. His days continue to be filled with a lot of pain which, for the most, part he just presses right on through. But, every so often, he'll have a day where it gets the best of him mentally/emotionally and yesterday was one of those days. God is so true to His Word though because He promises He won't give us more than what we can bear with His help and when one of those days comes along He allows Dan to have a breakthrough moment! He's teaching us so much on this journey that I'm not sure we could ever pen it all down.
The focus right now is to strengthen his leg. A funny thing was he told someone, "My hamstring is gone." They said, "They took it out?!" He laughed and said, "No, it's just withered away to nothing during this!" So needless to say, there's still a lot of work to be done. He goes to PT 3x a week and then does the CPM machine 8 hrs/day. His leg is weak and his brain and his leg don't always agree on what it can do! We're still in prayer about the nerves regenerating for his foot. He's stopped wearing his brace on his foot and it's not because it's not needed anymore, I think he's just stepping out in faith trusting that God is going to fully restore it so the brace won't be a permanent part of things. I love this guy. He keeps pressing on no matter what! "Consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4 We have so much to be grateful for~
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