Looking Back and Needed Prayer

As we sat around the dinner table yesterday with our Davis family (we missed you Bargerons!), Lane and I couldn’t help but look back at last year’s Easter celebration. First of all, he couldn’t yet leave Mary Free Bed, so we celebrated there. Secondly, he was on a soft foods diet, so everything he ate had to be within this soft foods category (jello, deviled eggs etc:). He was SO thrilled to be out of the hospital eating meat and regular food yesterday! But what didn’t change and never will regardless of our circumstance is the reason we celebrate Easter, the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Yesterday our Pastor at FBC spoke on one of the greatest fears of mankind, death. He spoke from Hebrews 2 and the reason we as believers have no reason to fear death, because our Savior defeated it by His death and conquering of the grave. What a beautiful reminder, as none of us know what our tomorrow holds. We pray that each of you, dear family and friends, know Christ. If not, email us. We’d love to share more about HIM with you (lanemily12@gmail.com).

Update on Lane’s therapy/health: Therapy is going great and he is adjusting really well to the Therapy facility here in East Lansing. His sleep is gradually getting a little better since a recent med change, which we are grateful for. There’s still lots of room for improvement though.

We are also looking into a possible massage therapy (craniosacral massage) that is suppose to be really helpful for insomnia and fatigue etc, or any TBI’s in general. Unfortunately since Lane’s seizure med has recently been changed, he’s had 2 seizures (the past two Sundays). The first was an absence seizure and the second involved some tremors, both lasting around 35 seconds. His Epileptologist (seizure doctor) knows about both and will be getting back with us today about what she wants us to do. Please join us in praying that no more seizures will occur and that this new med will simply eliminate them. Also that nothing else (change etc) in the brain is causing these seizures.

In just two short weeks we celebrate 2 years of marriage. Can this really be?! Some days we honestly tell each other that it seems we’ve been married well over 10 years with all that has gone on…but other days we can’t hardly believe 2 years have passed by. Lane and I figured out today that since the day we were married he has been in inpatient hospitals/rehab facilities more than the time we’ve lived at home. On our anniversary (May 4th)  we’ll have lived at home for 9 months and 26 days (pre and post accident), while he was in the hospital for 14 months and 2 days. Looking forward to the day our “days together at home” will outnumber inpatient facility days!

 Thank you for your steadfast prayer and support, dear friends. We still so desperately need it.

Love,

 Emily (for my hard working champion)

PS. These pictures were taken yesterday, the top is Lane and I with our niece Alice, bottom is our sister in law Jenny with she and Ivans daughter Heidi, Emily’s sister Elizabeth, and her friend Faith from college. Middle is Lane with the new son of our good friends, Stephanie and Preston Nichols (Trenton Lane:).