Sat July 4, 2009

4th of July morning in our room



Finally going for a car ride!



Happy 4th everyone!! We got some good news yesterday-we get a 6 hour pass to leave the hospital today!! So we are going to go home and restock our supplies for next weeks stay. Blake is gonna love gettin out of here for a lil bit. He has been such a trooper. We have physical and occupational therapy this morning. Then we will get to leave for a little bit. All the therapist are amazed how fast Blake is recovering since he is only 9 days out of surgery. We are working on the 'tone' in his right leg. His calf muscle is stiff right now. If we dont stretch it out, when he goes to walk its gonna hurt. We are also working on helping him stand without hyperextending his right leg. He likes to lock it so that he is stable. He is doing SO good. There is a long road ahead of us though. I just hope that he continues to be motivated and doesn't get discouraged.


Hanging out at Nana & Papa's playing with Mason



So we were able to leave the hospital for 6 hours!! We went home first to pack more clothes for another week. Leo (our cat) was so happy to see Blake. I know he misses us. Blake liked being home, but was very frustrated because he couldn't move around like he wanted to. We then went to my parents for dinner. We tried ordering chinese but they were closed. So we got Arby's! Yum yum. Blake seemed to enjoy his dinner, a lot better than hospital food. :) We got back to the hospital a little past 9 and were able to watch the fireworks from the window. It was really beautiful seeing all the fireworks going off across the city skyline. Blake liked watching the "boom booms" a lot. Once they were over we all went to bed. It was a pretty good 4th I think.





Heading back to the hospital...