Dear Family and Friends,
Well, the word is go for the procedure to close the hole in Stuart’s heart. However, he does need to get his cholesterol checked and do a stress test. Those must be done before the final, final word on the operation. Stuart is scheduled to go in for the stress test on the 11th of June. They wanted to do it this week, but due to some changes in his health insurance we needed to wait. We are now going to have to pay for his medical insurance through Medicaid. That change occurred when Stuart starting getting Disability. Praise God the amount we need to pay is not too high with the same coverage.
Stuart has been driving our van since Kyle brought it out a couple of weeks ago. The doctor asked him not to drive at night until he gets checked out by this special rehab program. He is driving more cautiously these days but is doing a good job. One disadvantage to regaining this privilege is that he is not walking as much. I am having trouble getting him motivated to do this. He really needs to get in a regular exercise schedule. Our bikes need some repair work before we can ride them. Pray that we can get Stuart motivated.
This week also saw another accomplishment that was a biggie for Stuart. He prepared all the things for us to get our taxes done for last year. He had some trouble pulling out the records he had on the computer and had to do things another way. Praise God he got pretty well done this week and should get the information sent off to Howard Herdon who will prepare our taxes. It is just exciting to see Stuart be able to do things like this again. It is a much slower process as his typing skills have not returned but at least it got done.
I am sorry that I have not been getting updates on more regularly. It should have been done since we haven’t gotten a newsletter out. We are still hoping that will get done soon. So, I will try to do the updates even if nothing much is going on. We still appreciate your prayers and financial help. For now we are still in need of both. Thanks again for being there for us.
Love from us all,
Stuart, Valerie and family.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Hello Stuart/Val. Thank you – for a routine update. Sure, this is the long hard ordinary phase where not a lot happens except everyday life, the bits and pieces – where most of our life happens, the time we think things are not very noteworthy. I open up my store in the morning, go through all the motions of getting everything set for the day, get my computer to all the pages that need open, check my email – this site first – pray for you guys while at it as this is a good daily reminder – and when nothing is posted presume your day is plugging along normally. Sure, we all want something to happen, something that makes a day more than routine, God to do something “big” today. And when another day has passed without those unexpected anticipations, we often resign ourselves to “normal”. But after an experiance like yours, probably normal feels pretty good. Thanks, and mostly just keep it in the “normal”
Sunday, June 14th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Wow! Stuart’s progress is amazing. I’m sure things are still frustrating at times, when he can’t do what he used to. You continue to be in our prayers and thoughts. We enjoyed having Andrew and Katie here. It brought back memories of all the times you were in Coos Bay and of our trip.
May God continue to bless in your lives.
Sunday, June 14th, 2009 at 12:37 am
How did the stress test go?