three weeks ago yesterday.

It seems amazing to us that Mike's surgery was three weeks ago yesterday. In some ways it seems like three days ago, in others like three months ago. It has been so encouraging to have so many people come up to us and thank us for keeping them in the loop with the blog... and it has been so encouraging to know that people are still praying for us. Is it possible to be prayer-dependent? Hope that a good thing. Smile. Here is a little report on the patient: Mike started back to work part-time this week. Jackie, Cathy, Scottie and Kelly are keeping him out of the animal rooms and focused on facilities issues & desk work. Yesterday he shared that he loves being back at work because it helps him to feel more normal, even though he can't physically work like he loves to. He is counting the days until he can, even though we have no real idea when that will be. He works very hard to eat consistently and well, which takes more energy than you can imagine. When he put on his dress clothes for church over the weekend, Mike said he felt like a boy dressed in his dad's clothes - and it was true! It looked like he couldn't quite fill them out yet... everything looked a bit baggy. Other than that, he looks amazingly good! Poor guy has a lot of discomfort and aches with the nerves healing in his neck, and from the hit his body took from so many days immobile in a hospital bed. (Hip pain, shoulder stiffness - not to mention all the stuff that is still healing in his mouth & tonsils.) Mike never complains and bears through it, but I can see it on him. He refuses to take more than Alleve at bedtime. This is just the journey on this part of the trip. He is an amazing fighter.