One Day at a Time!!!

So, I was very apprehensive about my last post  because we all know things can change in a heart beat and that is exactly what happened.  I took Mitch down to see Mom on Sunday afternoon and we all started playing a game and having a great time when all of a sudden I heard Mary say "Mitch are you ok"? Well he was having one of his many different kind of seizures, where his lip was quivering and droopy! It lasted maybe 1-2 minutes and then he was fine but in all seriousness we were devastated! I did call the hospital and Dr. Lanigar wasn't on call so I just spoke to the Dr. on call and he assured me that as long as he was conscious and he knew what was going on that it was ok. He did want me to follow up with Dr. Lanigar today and I did call him and left a message and he called me right  back, He was more worried that it was his famous arm seizure and when I told him what all had happened, he wasn't worried at all.  He really isn't sure why it happened but he said he has a whole lot of healing to do yet and Mitch needs to have fun but also needs to take it a little easy.  Mitch didn't feel very good yesterday, he was very worried that the seizure had found a new spot to come out of, but this morning after talking to Dr. Lanigar he is back to smiling and teasing me a whole bunch.  I can't tell you that I am fine with all of this but I will tell you that, God is in control and we will take this One Day at a Time!   Thank you all for all your continued support and prayers, I know they are all being heard and answered, I want to Thank Mitch's Doctors that have me call them and they call right back and help calm us down! This is just a small bump in the road and now we need to keep him healing! He will start therapy on Thursday and I know that will help him feel stronger fast. I did get my first shot in my knee this morning and that went great, one down four to go!  Thanks again to you all for EVERYTHING and we Love you all,  Theresa
P.S. He got a belated birthday card in the mail today from the Royals and they said they are following his blog, so thanks so much for the card it did put a smile on his face. What an awesome group of Royal people you are!!!  He LOVES you all so very much!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanking God!

Well, it's been a while again, sorry. Mitch has been absolutely great, we went back to Columbia on Wednesday and Dr. Lanigar was thrilled. He thought Mitch looked better, acted better and is better than he has been for a very long time. He told us that he wants to do a EEG on July 18th, when Mitch gets his stitches out, and he knows that NOTHING will show up, No abnormal activity and no seizures. We have waited a very long time, 14 1/2 years to be exact, to hear those words.  Dr. Lanigar was pretty upset the night Mitch had the 3 hour seizure and he told us that was just too long for anyone to have a seizure. They are all pretty confident that they have found the Focal point, where all the seizures are coming from, and that he will never have another one again. We are just all thrilled!!! Mitch says he sleeps better, feels like getting up and ready to start everyday with a smile on his face. Dr. Lanigar will not start weening Mitch off any medicine until next summer. We continue to pray that they are gone forever and will never show up again. As most of you know, I was going to have a knee replacement on the 11th of July, my knee was bothering me alot but it really is a ton better and I feel like I can finally walk again. I still have trouble kneeing and getting up off the floor but hey at least it don't hurt, anyway I have canceled that for the time being and I will start a series of shots on Tuesday July 5 and I am praying that will give me a couple of years before I will have to have a new knee. Mitch is getting ready to start therapy and Dave would be run ragged trying to help him and me, so it is wonderful that I can wait. We have alot of things to be thankful for but mostly Mitch's successful surgery, our health, and all of you and our precious God, so thank you all so much for your prayers and support during this crazy time in our life. We cherish you all and please stop by if you are in the area. We pray you all have a safe and Happy 4th, summer is almost over!  Love you all, David, Theresa and Mitch

Keep on trucking!!!

Mitch is just amazing!!! He still has some swelling in his head and it does cause him a headache but we still haven't seen any seizures and he swears he is in no pain and he is sleeping much better at night! We are just thrilled!!!! He did receive a package in the mail today from the hospital and it had at least 50 cards in it! He would like me to thank you all for the cards and all the wonderful messages he received for his birthday, He feels pretty special!! He didn't get them all looked at yet but I told him to just take his time and open a few each day, makes your birthday last longer, thank you all so much for making him so happy, we appreciated it so much!!!!!!  We hope to start therapy in a week or two, just want to make sure the swelling is gone so he can handle being up more! He has had some great visitors and he looks forward to more!!! Thanks so much for all the good food you all have brought, no dieting here:)! Thanks so much for all the prayers, we appreciate them! If you could say a prayer for some of my Kansas cousins, we are heading out their tonight as my sweet Aunt Evelyn Henry passed away! Never fun to see everyone at a time like this but I am so thankful I am able to go and tell her goodbye! Thank you all so much, you guys are all amazing!!! Theresa

Home!

we got home at 2 pm yesterday and enjoy dinner with Joel, Tiff and kiddos! Thanks Tiff for dinner it was awesome! Mitch has had a great first night and day home! He has slept quite a bit and when he is awake, he has a smile on his face! I just love seeing that!!! I am trying to to get to excited but we haven't seen his arm do one of its seizures and that is fabulous!!! We are just praying that we never see one of them again!!! He has had some company and he really enjoys visiting with anyone so he doesn't have to talk to me:)!!!  He did do a shower and I hardly helped at all he is just doing great! Well it is 5 pm so I think I will go get outta my pjs:)!!! I am pretty lazy:)!!! Thanks so much for the continued prayers and please do stop and visit if you are in the area!!!! Love you all,  Theresa

Keep on truckin!!!!

Well my rockstar is wanting out of here real bad!  He has had an awesome day....hoping that he hasn't overdone it!  He has been up several times walking the halls and each time he is more steady than the last! He has had a very good appetite and pretty much eats whatever he wants. He took a shower, with the help of  Dave and I , and he just looks so much better.  He does have quite a bit of swelling in his head and face and they told us to expect that to go down his face each day and his eyes may be almost swelled shut but it should absorb itself and he has had no fever at all today.  They also told us that we should go home tomorrow and I think we can handle that!  This place is wonderful and I love the expert help we get but there is no place like home to heal. He will go back to therapy, at home, in a week or two and we aren't really sure how long that will last but we know they will LOVE to have him back.  The Royals have kept this stay very interesting for us and all the nurses have heard about the birthday shout out to Mitch and some of them were even watching it and said to their family "Hey I know that man"! Mitch is Loving the winning streak they are on! Dave and I plan to go back to the house tonight, THANK YOU SO MUCH ERMA, JEFF, JOAN AND KYLER for letting us use your homes, that helped us out tremendously!  God is good and so far we have seen 0 arm seizures in 2 days. We know that we won't know anything for a long time and this is how it started the last time but we are very hopeful that they have left the country!  We said goodbye to my Mom, Mary, Malia and Magz today! Thank you so much for spending the weekend with us, even if you were here to play ball, it sure made it go fast. Thanks to Keith, Kristy and Kayla for coming by for a quick visit, it was so nice to see you.  So the plan for now is to get out of here tomorrow afternoon and go home and heal!  Thanks to you all for all the support and prayers, WOW you all are awesome!!!! Love ya, David, Theresa and Mitchell

Much better!

Just a quick update now to thank you for prayers! I came back to hospital at 6 this morning and he was much more alert, talkative and no fever! Dave said he slept good, Just praying now the Fever stays away and he can have a good day! His nurse thought he would get moved to the floor today if they had a room for him! Mitch wants outta here real bad, I'm in no hurry to get him home......yet! I will update later but wanted you to know he seems much better this morning! He just got done eating an egg, bacon and cheese buiscut and he thought it tasted good! The surgery team was just in and said they are moving Mitch to the floor and if he can get up and walk he can go home tomorrow, I told them we are in no hurry yet, Thank you Jesus!!!! Love you all, Theresa

Quiet Birthday!

The birthday boy was pretty quiet today! They got him up and he was able to sit in a chair for 30 minutes but that was all he could handle! He went for a MRI and we haven't heard anything from that so they said that is good otherwise they would have took him straight to surgery! He Hasn't ate much but doesn't really have an appetite yet, and he is running a 100.2 temp and they don't get concerned unless it is over 100.5 so I am praying that it goes back down instead of creeping up! Dave kicked me outta the hospital tonight and he stayed, so I will try to get so sleep and head back over early! If his temp goes down he should get moved to the floor tomorrow, they also said if he can get up and move around he may be able to go home Monday but I'm not real thrilled with taking him home unless he is getting up and down a lot better than what he is right now! Mom stayed with Mitch for a while today so Dave and I could go watch Maggie play ball, good game Maggie and thanks Granny, and we were sad to find out we missed our cousin Keith, please come back Keith!! We had some visitors from Iowa today, thank Kevin , Crystal, Hailey, Caitlyn and Aiden for coming to sing Mitch Happy Birthday! Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day! We are praying tomorrow will be a better day and that this is just a bump in the road! Thanks so much for the continued prayers we really do appreciate all of them! I'm so ready for my baby to feel better!!!! Love you all Theresa