Schedule of Events coming up

Well we are on the 8 day count down til surgery. It is getting close. I am both excited and nervous, and Bryan is as well. But I know everything will go great because Bryan and I have faith in God. In order for Bryan to be ready for the big day he has a pre op appointment on Wednesday of this week. They will do all the paper work and blood work needed for the surgery. Since his appointment is early in the morning we decided to go ahead and go up the night before and stay in a hotel. It will be our 3 year anniversary on Tuesday. So it will be fun. Plus we are taking Frank with us and we are going to go to the Magic Time Machine Restaurant. I think we will have a blast. Then his appointment should only take an hour they said. And then we can go find something fun to do as a family for the rest of the day. We will not know the time of his surgery until the day before, the drs office told me that the hospital is just so over jammed with surgeries right now that they are just not able to book times as far in advance as they wish. But that is ok. It doesn't matter what time the procedure is at wee will be there whenever. If he does have a morning surgery we will be going to stay with my parents the night before so that we can drop off Frank at my grandmothers on our way to Dallas that morning. That way Bryan gets to see Frank before he has surgery. And Frank will be able to play with his best bud Trevor the whole day. My mom is going to ride up to Dallas with us so that will be a big help to me on the way back for sure. I believe I have everything planned out to the minute for this to go smooth, and get Bryan taken care of and make sure he is as comfortable with it as possible. I am imaging, since I have seen his list of meds for after surgery, that he will probably miss rehab the day after due to recovery. But you never know he could just bounce out of it and be ready to go. We will see. He will have his first post appointment on the 9th. And I am hoping if the spot is healing properly they might try and see if it will work. But we will have to see. In most cases it takes a full 4 weeks before it starts to work. But it would be awesome for him to be able to hear when we go to the baseball game the week after that. I know he would be excited about that. Also his chemo will be on the 15th this month, due to the fact that his ear has to be completely healed before he can have the medicine. So hopefully it is healed by then. And from now on every month the chemo will be in the middle of the month instead of the first of the month. Also he is suppose to go in September to have another MRI but they are trying to figure some things out with the fact he will have the implant, that make MRI's a little more complicated than usual. So once I get that date I will post it.

This is going to be a busy month for our family. We have Bryan getting his implant, Frank starting Mothers Day out again, and starting his Kindermusik again. And I am about to start my second class. So we will stay busy but have a blast at the same time.

Please pray for Bryan and pray that everything goes as smoothly as planned. He has a wonderful team that is working on him, and I have worked with the wonderful staff as well as the dr to get to this point. I have complete faith in his dr and his team. I know they will make sure my sweetheart is taken care of when he is under there care, and I know God will be sitting next to Bryan the whole time. I feel very good about this. And Bryan is ready. So now all that is left is for us all to send God praise for the good he has done and will do, and pray for fast recovery.

Update on how to get email of updates

Ok I have done some research and it seems that I had the wrong application on here for everyone to get emails when I update. So Now you will see a bar with SUBSCRIBE in it, if you will roll the mouse over the bar it will pop up a screen, you can subscribe through many things including your email. Just follow the steps when you click on what ever you want to use. If you have any problems please send me an email and I will email you. Thanks!

Bryans monthly Meeting

Yesterday Bryan had his monthly meeting at the rehab facility. It went very well. And was not even close to as long as the others have been. They said that he is doing alot better with his memory. He is doing really well with remembering what he does on the weekends when asked on Mondays. Also he is doing better at remembering what they do there from day to day. They said he is doing great at remember different signs they use to talk with him. He doesn't seem to want to use them at home, but at home we have kinda made up our own signs for things. It is good though that they are able to have a way to communicate things with him without having to write it out. Physically he is doing great. Still some balance issues but most of the time he is able to self correct and catch himself. Also he is starting to remember what he needs to do in his fitness workout sessions and just goes straight to working without prompts which is great. He has been moved to a new group. The group he is in now works with more complex cognitive skills. They said he is doing really well in the group.

Once he gets the implants they will start auditory therapy with him to get the implants working. The therapy will reteach him how to hear sounds and develop words out of the sounds. This is going to be great for him.

Other than that he is doing great this week. Seems to be really getting good at using the computer. He is using yahoo messenger alot. If anyone has a screen name you should add him and talk to him sometime on there. His screen name is bryanlm68.

Thats all for now!

Fun over the weekend!

On Saturday we decided to have some fun outside. Bryan got on his swim trunks and I put Franks on and they got in the pool together. They had so much fun splashign around. It is so great to see Bryan be able to do this with Frank. Such a simple task for most, but for Bryan this is such an accomplishment from even a month ago. I know Bryan had a blast playing with Frank. Frank loves it when Bryan comes outside with him. and thank goodness we have so much shade in our backyard that Bryan is able to spend alot of time outside. Here are some pictures from the afternoon of fun. Enjoy!

Hello To All!

I decided that I would start a blog for Bryan. I think this is a great way to now communicate with everyone and to update everyone. This will give anybody who wants to know what is going on in Bryan's life a chance to get information. Also eventually this will give Bryan a place to update people on how he is doing when he can. I encourage everyone to subscribe to this blog, that way everytime there is a update you will get an email. Also please feel free to leave comments on updates to Bryan. I am going to save this page to his computer that way anytime he wants to get on and look at it he can.

Thanks to everyone again for all the prayers and thoughts you are sending our way.

Jennifer