The Recovery!

This is a series of pictures of what I thought would document the recovery Process... some pics are hard to see so caarreefffulll!!

This Pic is of my mom about a week after her accident at Methodist Hospital

This is a picture of my moms Left Leg after they cleaned it and saved what they could, and the skin grafting from her thighs to use on her left calf and foot.

Her left elbow was shattered and now has a metal plate there

This is of her shattered heal before surgery, it was like this for a little over a month. It took a while for the surgeons to decide what to do with it!

After the grafting and new muscle! Her new leg! What a miracle!

Healing....at home!

Healing.... at home for a couple of weeks!

Cuddling with her grandson! We were both so thankful that she was able to come home for a couple of weeks and spend time with her! It was such a blessing for her too to get out of that hospital! Even though we saw her daily it's just great to have her HOME! She recovered to quickly while she was home, the doctors were to amazed! Praise God! 

She had to go back to the Hospital for more surgeries! She had 12 surgeries total!

    

    

    

    

Before and after!(her heel)

                               

Incredible healing!

Showing off how she can rest her foot on the ground!

My mom out in her 'fancy' wheelchair! 

Her blue brace protecting her leg and 'walkin' on with her walker

Her new reading chair from my incredible father! Merry Christmas mama! She says that in this picture her legs are becoming friends again! 

She has been doing physical therapy since octoberish, just recently she has been doing aqua therapy! Noah and I love going and cheering her on! He has made this time really encouraging!

My beautiful mom out!

Thank you all for your continued support, prayers and encouragement through this tough time. God has been so good to us and has used this in tremendous ways and would never trade this for anything. God has really searched our hearts and has continued his faithfulness in using this to transform us into the likeness of his son.

My mom has been such an encouragement to me and a great example in trusting in the Lord through everything! EVERYTHING! 

Thanks mom! I love you!

Prayer requests!

My mom would continue healing, her tendon would stretch to allow her to plant her foot on the ground to get her walking, that she would not develop hip problems cuz of her 'limp', to be able to go to Texas to see my brother and his family and the birth of their new daughter april 17th ish! Please pray for ways of serving one another and unity! And that the basis of our relationships would be Christ.

It's been a while!

I just realized that I haven't blogged since November 17th ish! Crazy,  I am going to try to keep up this year! We are already in February 2010!
There is a ton to update on so I'll try to make it simple!
How Veronica is doing,  Christmas, Faithwalkers, New Years, How Noah is doing, Homeschooling diary lol, my Aunt is back, The Downtown Church, My brother and his beautiful Family!

THANKSGIVING!

WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR?

My Little Harry Potter and Lady Bug

So Halloween really isn't a big deal for us, but around halloween this year Noah and I really got into Harry Potter! My dear friend Courtney came over early on Beggers night and we got in the car while noah was taking a nap with my mom and went to Nobbies! There we found glasses and a wand! HARRY POTTER here he comes! He had the rest of the outfit in his closet; white shirt, tie, sweater... etc. It was perfect.

Following finding the perfect costume we went trick or treating to all the grandparents houses with Aunt abby and little Adelyn! Then our bible study had a lil chilli cook off party we attended!

Veronica Update # 13

Hey everyone!
Just letting you know how my mom is doing!
PRAISE REPORTS:
Veronica was able to make it to Celebration Sunday this last week!
She has been walking with her Walker
Putting some weight on THE foot
Smiling again
Going on Car rides on Saturdays with my dad
More mobile
Skin Graphs are healing
Contusion are healing
The wound on her thigh is healed

My mom decided not to go through w/ the tendon release surgery. It was to to to to risky! One wrong move and she could have lost her foot. And actually surgery or no surgery the outcome would almost be the same. Either way she'll have a limp, be in pain, use a walker, and have to wear a leg and foot brace. After some prayer we decided that we wouldn't go through with it.

Please keep uniting with us in prayer:
Pain will subside
Be able to walk
Walk down the stairs w/ help
All be relying on the Lord
See my Brother and his family soon
She would keep healing
Infection would go away
Be able to afford all her medications
Her elbow would heal

Now she's just going to her weekly check ups (pray she doesn't get hurt when leaving the house!) and continuing with Physical Therapy! So instead of surgery she's going to participate with aggressive physical therapy every day- -  please pray that it works! And she starts walking and using her leg and foot soon!

Veronica Update # 12?

 I can't believe it's been about a month since I've updated on life! A lot has been going on and the Lord is doing great things, of course. What else would I expect from Him?!

So MOM (VERONICA)
She's been doing well. Please keep praying for her!
She's in a ton of pain, STILL!!
She's still undergoing aggressive physical therapy everyday with Pam and Kim. Actually, this week they changed it to only 3 times a week because they actually think it could be doing some damage.
So..... MORE SURGERIES!!!
     Scrape bone to rid infection
     Cut the tendon they put her in her foot to stretch it out  so she won't have drop foot and could someday walk! pray pray pray
She's really trying to cling to the Lord and be okay with what he's doing through all of this!
Please feel free to call us at home 515-223-8003 or my cell 515-419-2580!

Please pray that my mom would be able to go to the Women's Coffee house on Friday at Walnut Creek Church. She wants to go so badly to see and thank everyone!

Update on Veronica #11

Just a quick update on my mom - I haven't posted in a while since days are so busy since she's home, but i have a minute now!

She's still in pain .... it'll be there for a while but please continue to pray that it would be tolerable and not get worse.

She's going through aggressive physical therapy every day (with Kim and Pam- - they're are wonderful please pray for our time with them), it's really emotional for her. Just this week was the first time that her left foot touched the floor since July 9th! It was A HUGE DAY! They are trying to stretch the Achilles tendon  so that her foot can some day be flat to the floor. They are going to give time for the "flap" to heal and then go back in and cut the tendon a little bit "release tension" to the achilles tendon. Ouch! huh?! so that means another surgery.

The emotion aspect has kicked in so please pray she keeps trusting the Lord with everything and clings to his promises!

Please keep praying for her recovery, she's still very week and everything is still very delicate!

She thanks everyone, friends and family for all the support and encouragement and prayers! Can't wait to get back on her TWO feet! get it?!