Guess who slept ALL night, last night?

If you guessed Luke you win! WOW, what a surprise to get up this morning and find out that Luke did not wake up until 7:30 a.m. this morning, this is the longest he has slept since the days that he was in the Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital. You who have been praying for Luke and the rest of us to get sleep just know that God is listening and He is answering your prayers, so please don't give up!

We also want to let you know that we are getting Luke's legs to bend a little bit. We started taking him to my good friend, Brooke who does an excellent job at message therapy and she started to teach us how to work on getting his legs to loosen up. Sue, Amy and Luke's nurses have been working with his legs and it is paying off, Praise the Lord.

My prayer this week, is for me to keep my eyes on the Lord. The Bible verse that keeps coming to my mind is: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6. I could be getting very anxious about his Swallow gram test next Tuesday 1/18/05. It is so important for him to pass this, so that we can start getting him help to eat more through his mouth and getting him to swallow more often. As I mentioned in our last Blog he is eating now through his mouth but only about 6 or 7 bites at a sitting. Which is great news but how we look forward to the day when he will eat more. We also have a appt. with his pulmonologist on Thursday 1/20/05 and we are praying that he will allow us to take our first step at getting out his trach, this is a slow process, but we are ready to begin. Someone on the blog asked why he has a trach, the answer is because he was unable to keep his passage way cleared with his saliva and he was not able to give a good cough so that he could clear it out. He has always been able to breath without it, which has been a real answer to prayer.

We continue to take him in for more HBOT treatments, it was exciting last week to see him try to sit up during the treatment on Wednesday. I wasn't there but Gordy, Natalie and his nurse Mary came home all excited about it. These next two weeks we are hoping to get in at least 3 more treatments, because of all the other appts. he has during this time. We were once again blessed on New Years Eve, someone dropped off a check for $2000.00 to our church, we continue to be amazed at God's goodness to us during this long slow journey to complete recovery. It was given anonymously so if you are reading this THANK YOU!

Hi, After futher thought and realizing that we dont have control over who sees this, I decided to remove our address from this post. If you want our home address, please send an e-mail to howslukedoing@yahoo.com and we will be glad to provide you with our address. We would love to hear from you and if you sent out a Christmas Newsletter we'd love to get one, it is so much fun meeting the people that are so faithful in praying for our family. Just know that we are humbled by you continued prayers and support, God is answering them, so please don't quit!

Love in Christ,
Luke's Mommy Sue