We've been blessed with lots of visits this weekend and Monday and M has done much better. Visitors really engage his attention and he'll crack jokes and laugh. Cognitively, M was much better today, including his memory of recent events. With friends, we played Battleship and "Kings in a Corner," a solitaire-type card game.
He’s so much stronger physically that he was able to transfer, with only my help holding on to make sure he kept his balance, from wheelchair to bed and other places a few times today. And he went on a bowling outing with other patients and therapists in the morning. Although his left leg is strong enough to bear his weight, he cannot voluntarily move it yet. He can, for very brief moments and ever so slightly, voluntarily move his left arm. Please pray for peace for me and protection from unecessary pain for M. I qualify it because he needs to feel pain on the left side to protect himself from hurt, but not unremitting pain caused by misfiring of nerve signals.
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:5-10 (NIV)
