Only 6 days later!!

Here is an update on my little bro. He is progressing very nicely!! He looks SO much better! He is still in a lot of pain but not as much as he ha been lately. He even got up and walked the length of the hospital toady!! I am SO happy that he is feeling a bit better! In the next couple of days he will be transfered to a hospital that specializes in head trauma where he will be doing some intense therapy. Thanks so much to everyone for your prayers and thoughts!! I am certain they all helped!

Ok.... So I should have put this story on earlier, like when I posted the picture but better late than never, eh? Above is a picture of my 17 year old brother, Adam, after a pretty serious long-boarding accident. He likes to go long-boarding and always uses a helmet. This time; however, he had left his helmet with a friend and was on his way to go meet this friend when he crashed. He was going about 30 mph when he tumbled. Adam was knocked unconscious and the friends he was with called 911. The hospital found he had a fractured skull and for a while they were worried that he may have broken his neck. Luckily they have since found out (through an MRI) that his neck is not broken (thank goodness). Unfortunately they have also found (through various CT scans) that he has bruising, bleeding, and swelling in his brain. This picture was taken the day of the accident (I think), but apparently he looks a lot better now. I will hopefully be receiving a picture from my wonderful cousin today. I can't tell you how much my heart aches for my little brother. I want to be with him so badly that it physically hurts. One of the only things that made me hesitate in moving to WI is that I would no longer be closer to my little brother and little sister. I loved being near them and seeing them on a regular basis! I loved know that, should something happen, I could be by their side in a heart beat! Now when I want to be by Adam the most, I can't. All I can do is pray for him and hope he know the immense amount of love I have for him. He is an amazingly strong kid and I know he will be right as rain in a flash, I just wish I could be there as he achieves right-as-rainness. I was lucky enought to talk to him yesterday. He mumbled a couple of sentences but I can't express how lovely it was to hear his voice! He will probably have to go through some pretty intense therapy for his speech as well as other various skills. If you want more of an update on him, my facebook page is probably the place I will be updating the most.

Christmas pages

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A couple for now

Here are a couple of pages for now. In a few weeks we get a new computer and therefore, I will be able to scrapbook without the fear (or reality) of our computer crashing and erasing everything I spent hours doing (yes, that has happened a lot).