a truly amazing hubby...

Hubby has recovered in much less time than anyone could have predicted... not only did he get his braces off yesterday, but the doctor released him to work, with no restriction. Well, he can't run and jump yet, but that isn't something he would do at work anyway... and his facility is very smart, they don't lift patient manually and all the beds are raised, etc... So he doesn't need to be able to kneel or lift... This means he is returning to work more than a month earlier than any of his doctors thought it was humanly possible to return... All the predictions were from 3-6 months... no one thought less than 3 months was even something to hope for... except hubby... he kept saying, "once I can walk on the fractures again, I will be good in one week..." Yesterday's release is certainly true to that goal...

Again we have seen the hand of miraculous healing in his behalf... he has NO play in the tendons in his knees... his surgeon who repairs hundreds of knees every year, thought that was really something... and he commented on how hard it is to get the tension just right on multiple tendon replacements and considering how many tendons hubby had replaced the surgeon was very surprised with the amazingly tight joints that hubby is already presenting, just 8 weeks after surgery... Hubby's knees are pretty close to as tight as though the tendons were not damaged as far as his flex from side to side is concerned. This should be very tight and hubby's IS... and those tendons may even be stronger than before the accident... he isn't a really young buck any more...

Building strength back in his leg muscles and building up his normal endurance will take some time... but he is doing great at working on that and only needs the cane for support... Just getting back to normal life will facilitate the rest of his recovery for him and he will continue to exercise... He has to readjust his sleeping schedule to days again... because he works nights, but we both feel he will get some extra help with that too... he plan is to start back on his normal schedule soon... He will work on retraining his brain to sleep days over the next 2 nights and will be returning to work on Thursday night...

We are both so happy and feel like the windows of heaven have opened up on us... that is a tremendous feeling... We thank every family member, friend and/or stranger that prayed for hubby's recovery... this whole event from start to finish has truly been a miracle and we are completely humbled to have been granted so great a blessing, especially when we know that so many others suffer great losses in the midst of our joy...

I just had to share the GREAT news.. and now we are headed to the temple with some of our kids to celebrate this great blessing!!!