July 28, 2008

• Can Barely Contain the Excitement!!!

  I visited Crag last, this past Thursday.  You'll have to forgive the tardiness in the post...but when you make it to the bottom, you'll be SOOO glad you stuck with me!!  When I got there it there was a party going on!  Okay, maybe not a party, but Tamala (Craig's #1 nurse from home) and her husband and kids were there!  Roxane & Tamala were already back with Craig, so they sent me on back to kick out Roxane (there's only suppose to be 2 people with him at a time).  I got back to his room and his nurse let the 3 of us stay with Craig...YEAH!  As you can tell from the picture we had a REALLY good time!

  We wanted Craig to know we were smiling so we drew smiles on each of our masks!  Craig wanted ALL of his animals in the picture and he too is smiling...he just blinked for the picture!

  Craig was so happy to see Tamala and I -- we all had such a fun time laughing at each other.  He was doing his best to break a fever and stay cool. 

  Over the last several days Craig's had fun playing Chutes & Ladders with Mom... Patiently waiting for the fun!

  I think Craig is winning AGAIN!

  Rick & Roxane drove up to St. Joe for church on Sunday and everyone was so excited to see them and wanted to know how Craig was doing.  Rick showed me the above pictures of him playing games with Rox and it brought tears to my eyes!  It's so good to see him getting better each and every day!!

  So here's the BIG news...some stuff we all have been praying for...

  Craig is OFF the VENTILATOR!!!!!  YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

  He's been off the vent since 1:30 pm this afternoon and is on 2 liters of oxygen via a nasal candela (tube at his nose) and tolerating it FABULOUSLY!!  Needless to say, Mom & Dad are ecstatic as they know this is one HUGE step towards going home! 

  Please pray Craig will learn to cough HARD to get the gunk up and out of his lungs and that he'll continue getting better so he can get to go home SOON!!!

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