Saturday, April 5, 2008
Saturday (day72)
Good evening all. Again we are able to tell you Shawna is improving. Although her appointments were cancelled on Thursday due to transportation issues we continue to do physio with her ankles to keep their form without the benefit of casting splints. They were going to make molds of her feet so they could make half casts which could be removed for certain durations. The appointments will be rescheduled. Shawna moves her right arm quite well now and her physiotherapist asked her and received 90 degrees of movement not once but six times yesterday. He was very excited about her responses. Shawna's case file has been transfered to another doctor and now she has been placed in the "slow to recover" program. Apparently there is some movement in the program and they will come to asses Shawna when a bed comes available to see if she can go to Chedoke. We are hoping she will be quite alert by that time so she can get the most out of her stay there. Shawna has been very stimulated by music especially the piano playing by Johnathan Kingma and Deanna Oosterhoff. She moves her mouth and smiles and seems like she's chewing gum the whole time. This is a sign she is stimulated by music. Our nurse is hiring a music therapist to work further with her to see what can be further enhanced. Through massage and heat we have managed to get most of the knot out of her neck muscle and thereby assist her to be able to sleep with her head leaning left. Our insurance has assesed our home with the view to being able to have Shawna home for a couple of hours a week in the future (could be a month or so yet). These are all beautiful bessings we continue to receive from God's hand. We continue to pray for His healing of Shawna and also ask for strength to continue to care for our family. Thankyou for your prayers and caring words. God bless you all and give you a blessed Sunday of praise and worship. Al and Deb
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8 comments:
Wow! I hope you are able to take Shawna home for short visits really soon. I am sure she will be so glad to finally have some time at home with her family :)
All the best,
Jacqui, Bill & Baeden Agnew
Thanks for keeping us all close with your updates.
Small steps to our eyes...giant leaps for Shawna!
Our prayers continue.
With Christian love,
Bert & Anne Van Straten
Dear Debby,Alan, Darryl + family !
Again progress . We continue to pray for Shawna and everybody of you. We know that day and night there is somebody , family or friends, in Shawna's room. That is fantastic. It is a blessing to have so many people around Shawna who love her to keep take care of her for such a long time allready. But they are blessed to see with their own eyes to see the progress Shawna makes. But we follow the blog and we thank you for all the times that you make time to write on it !!
Jesus shall reign wherever the sun
Does his successive journeys run.
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
People and realms of every tongue
Dwell on His love with sweetest song,
And infant voices shall proclaim
their young Hosannas to His name.
Let every creature rise and bring
its grateful honors to our King,
angels descend with songs again,
and earth prolong the loud amen!!
Love from :
oom Klaas
oom Jan + tante Menna
oom Albert + tante Joke
oom Henk + tante Marry
oom Age + tante Willy.
+ our children.
Dear Bethlehem family:
Again we see that the Lord is giving progress in Shawna's recovery, and we thank Him daily for this blessing. We pray that He may continue to give you and yours all your needs as you go onward on this road on which He has placed you. May you continue to feel His nearness every day.
With love from the van Ykens
Yes, we continue to remember each of you, as well as those in the medical profession in our prayers.
Thank you for keeping so many of us up to date on Shawna's progress. May the Lord continue to hold her (and all of you) close to His heart in the time ahead.
Tim and Elly and family
Wow..its really encouraging to hear all the blessings and advances that you have been experiencing! God is good.
So I know some musicians (namely myself) who would love to come and play for Shawna, if that would help her out. Can we come some time?
Anton Lodder
antonlodder@gmail.com
Dear Shawna
We are praying for you all the time. Remember that the LORD is watching over you and He knows what is best for you. Place your trust in Him, for He is hearing all the many prayers that are brought up to heaven for you.
We are so happy to hear that your movements are improving, keep it up!
Love Chris DeBoer and Amanda VanderHoeven
Dear Bethlehems and Darryl
Thank you for the updates, and we are happy to hear that Shawna may be able to come home for short periods. We continue to pray for her and you all. God's ways are good. He does not give us anything more than we can bare, but turns the hard times to our benefit.
Love the VanderHoevens (and Chris)
What a blessing to be able to talk about Shawna coming home for short visits. We will thanks and praise God for this too, even as we continue our prayers for her recovery. We don't know you or your family well, but are all part of the household of faith and have been following throught this blog and through some mutual friends (Robin Bosscher and Devon Hummel) God's blessings Shawna, and to her family and also to those who care for her in the medical profession.
Art and Emily Beijes and family
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