More Progress

Sue's tailbone continues to progress!  We had another appointment with the chiropractor on Thursday and he adjusted that little feller again. After that adjustment Sue proceeded to walk to the car without the walker she went in with.  She isn't back to normal yet, by any means, but she is progressing and that is a great relief to my mind!  I thank God for Dr. Joel!  I think without him Sue would still be in bed pounding down Vicodin rather than up and cleaning house.  Yes I scolded her for overdoing!  She told me she stopped with she got tired, and took a 2 hour nap this afternoon.  I think she just helped with dishes and folded laundry.  She told me she did not scrub floors!

The benefit of all this verticality is that the cerebro-spinal fluid is able to circulate much better when one is up and moving than when one is laying down and sedentary, so if there is some blood still tucked away in some little nook or cranny in that low spine and irritating nerves in there, it has a better chance now of being processed out and not giving us any more trouble.

We did also get word today that the hospital has found the missing Doppler test.  Sue called the Customer Service line there, and the lady she talked to went a-sleuthing.  She told us she had quite a time tracking this test down, and had to talk to a technician in order to figure out what was going on, and apparently this Doppler was a part of the Echo-cardiogram rather than a separate test, and it was done by cardiology rather than radiology.  So we will be picking up those results tomorrow for the Neurologist.

I wanted to take a moment to thank my parents, who have really helped us out in the transportation department this week and last, by taking the kids to their music lessons, which were in conflict with Doctor's appointments.  This allowed Sue and I to focus on the doctor and not whether or not we were going to get out in time to pick up the kid!  Thanks also to Sue Wank, for being there when Sue has needed an encouraging word, despite the serious medical issues in her own family.

Lastly, thank you again to all of you who have been praying for us.  This has certainly been a trial for all of us, and it is comforting to know that we are still being brought before the throne of grace by our "family".  It has not mitigated the trial, but strength sufficient for each day has been given to us, and we are persevering through the trial.