Hey Brad, Wow!  What an amazing report due to an amazing God!  Thanks!  Kathy


At 02:25 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote:
>OK. I've been off work due to the summer, but geesh busy nonetheless 
>but wanted to update you on my nephew. Last weekend we went to a 
>cabin his fiance's grandparents own... nice place on a lake. Andy's 
>brother graduated high school and had a birthday almost 
>simultaneously so they had a little party for him at the lake. Andy 
>is doing great. he's walking, talking, went for a boat ride, is very 
>much himself. he has some difficulty with some terms like he was 
>talking about a battery on a charger for the boat but kept saying 
>cell phone battery. Stuff like that. He knows he does this and just 
>says... "Well you know what I mean". Other than that he is doing 
>fabulous. They figure at the very longest he'll be in the rehab for 
>five months due to his upcoming surgeries in July to work on his 
>skull and etc. He is in the advanced area of the rehab place, the 
>area where folks are getting ready to go home. he can walk to the 
>gas station and store on his own and etc. so he's established trust 
>in the staff that way. Hard to believe it's only been 7 and a half 
>weeks or so since he was laid out on the pavement not expected to 
>make it to the local hospital, and here  he is up and around and 
>doing great. he can go home on weekends now too which is a 2.5 hour 
>trip from where he is at. So that's the update. I believe he has an 
>appointment July 19 for either surgery or a consultation on when 
>he'll actually have the surgery, I didn't get which. He was to see 
>the eye doctor too to get his contacts again. So there ya go and I 
>sure do appreciate the prayers for him.
>
>Brad
>