May. 4, 2008
Cindy Update #7
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Hi gang, Here are the latest updates on Cindy. I haven't heard anything in the past day or so, but no news is good news. The following updates were sent to me from a friend of the family and nanny. Thank you for continuing to pray. Cindy is continuing to improve everyday. She makes more and more noises as time goes on. She is also showing several signs of stage 4. The morning that she was suppose to move into the rehab center, they called and said they would no longer admit here. No reason given. Needless to say, even if they decide to change their minds, they will not be sending her to that center, due to unprofesionalism =( So obviously, that was not God's will for her to go there! Therefore, she is still at Walter Reed, they are now just doing a couple more things to move along her recovery, so that she can improve enough to get into another type of rehab center (where she would not require as much care.) They removed her traech. tube. She sometimes still has difficulty breathing, but for the most part is doing well. The big obstacle now is getting her to cough and swallow effectively. She is doing both now, but needs to be doing them better in order to send her to the other type of rehab centers. This is because these types of centers do not have respitory specialist like the one that she was going to go to. Grandma Choo Choo and David went and looked at 2 possible rehab centers last week. There is no date set to leave Walter Reed yet. Nore have they decided which one they will send her to, and then they still have to accept/admit her. They have also begun to do more physical therapy with her arms and legs. This is important to keep them active until she can get into full time therapy at one of the rehab centers. David does a final walk through on the house on the 29th and he will sign and we will move in on the 1st. He will also finish the paper work for the girls' school tommorrow (the 29th.) So....big week, moving and starting school! Please pray....it seems as if everyone is getting tired. But really everything is going about as well as it can be =) Hey I know I just sent one out yesterday, but I have some good uplifting news, so I figured I should share: Cindy has had a great day: she has been breathing all day without oxygen and is still at 96% which is great. She sneezed this morning. They removed her tube that feeds her food periodically all throughout the day. They still feed her through her stomach, but only at certain times, to prepare for eating normally again. She has moved her left foot a lot today, which normally does not move as much as the right. Another lady from Bolling came to visit her today. She brought some beautiful flowers. She also got to hear Maria talk to her on the phone. If anyone wants to talk to her, let me know, and I will try to set up a time. Cindy has cried several times in the last couple of days and shows faces of confusion, anger, and sadness...we hope this is stage four. The very next day I received this: Everyone has had a really good day. David went for the final walk through on the house and everything went well. The Realtor is a Christian, and said that she has told so many people at her church about the Garrett's and their situation. She said that if he wanted her to, she would get a group of 20-25 people together to come help clean up the house. Maggie Duke's brother, Frank, and sister-in-law, Whitney, have also offered to help in anyway they can. They only live a couple of minutes from the new house. I had dinner with them last week. It was fun! David also went to the girls' school today. He found out that everyone says that Isabella's teacher is the funnest in the whole school. She also has a variety of 5 or 6 languages to pick from, Japanese being one of them. Allie's teacher is very sweet and has already told the class that she is coming and they are all very excited, especially the girls in her class. The girls have to get physicals on Monday and then they start Tuesday morning. Although Allie is scared, she is excited about the fact that the school has a pond with a real live turtle named "speedy." Allie spent the night here last night with her dad. She helped him and the nurses do a lot things. The nurses were impressed with her caring ways. They wanted to wake her up this morning to see if she wanted to help them give her mommy a bath! We call her nurse Garrett now! Love to you all, Maggie |
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Posted by Sheila May. 9, 2008 - Good news
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May. 11, 2008 - Thanks for the update!
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