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Saturday, November 20, 2004

Sam Home from the Hospital!!

Thank you all for lifting Sam up in prayer.

We were able to bring him home on Saturday just after noon.  He transitioned well to his home ventilator on Friday night and was able to be off of the ventilator all together for 3 hours on Saturday.  He was all smiles about going home.

His muscle and nerve biopsy surgery went well on Friday morning as did the EMG and MRI on Thursday.  However, after all of that, Sam was plenty ready for everyone to stop messing with him.  The EMG showed some nerve malfunction throughout Sam’s body.  That’s new information for us and indicates that his initial brain injury may not be the total source of Sam’s increasing muscle weakness.  The MRI showed the same brain damage that was there as a baby - no change.  It will take several weeks to get results from the biopsy.  We are praying that this will all give us more information to help Sam in some way.

Thank you everyone who brought us meals, helped with the younger three kids and lifted Sam up in prayer.  We are also grateful for God providing great nurses, respiratory therapists and doctors for Sam.

We are thankful that he is home and we are all enjoying just being under one roof! 

Thanks to all of you who have a place in your heart for Sam.  He is truly an instument of God’s grace and an example of purity, innocence, determination and our dependence on our Lord for every breath we take.

2 Corinthians 12:9 - but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Sam and family.