What Have We Been Up To?

What have we been up to? 

This week has been very busy for us. We received a phone call Monday morning saying we could take the splint off Johns residual limb and to do dressing changes once a day. The limb looked great and we were very pleased with how it was coming along. Thursday we had an appointment to see the doctor who took out the stitches and was extremely pleased with John's progress and the movement he had in the limb. 

John tried some new things this week to help with the phantom pain. He has dabbled so far with mirror therapy and it seems to help some. John is still dealing with a lot of pain so we are looking for other ways to handle it other than pain medicine, which isn't a long term fix for the pain. 

This week we have some more appointments. Tomorrow we are headed to Ft Wayne for a prosthetic appointment. This is to get John started on the shrinker socks. We can now start this process because the stitches are out. We also have an appointment on Tuesday for John's left foot to check the skin graft on his second toe which is looking very good. 

John and I have enjoyed this time together so much! We have been able to spend so much time together that we wouldn't normally have. We went to our church Christmas party

and had the pleasure of helping decorating with John's mother and sister-in-law. We were very      pleased with the end result. 

 Please continue to pray with us as we still faced with many decisions on how to move forward. God has been so good to us and we are grateful for His wonderful Grace.