{A HeaVenLy UpDate}

Our life, over the past several months has been filled with so much emotion.  It is hard to explain the feeling that you have when you know you have been given a true miracle.  There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about our miracle, about how, our child's life was sparred.  Every little thing that Andrew is able to participate in brings me to tears because I think how empty our lives would be right now if his life was taken away.  It truly is to much to comprehend.  

Andrew has been involved in some pretty intense therapy since September.  We go twice a week to physical therapy, once a week to speech therapy (which works on cognitive strategies), and a family therapist to help with the anxiety.  He has made HUGE STRIDES, our life is crazy, but I would not even CONSIDER changing it at all.  I compare it to bringing home a newborn, at first life is overwhelming but after a couple of months you settle into your "NEW" routine.  Andrew required me to drive and pick him up for school everyday, hauling his oxygen in and out of the school, making sure he has his inhalers for his lungs (we started out with four, now we are down to two) and picking him up and sitting in therapy for hours at a time.   In this short time he has accomplished huge strides, keeping up on ALL of his school work, playing basketball, enjoying Christmas without his oxygen on (one of the two things he asked for for Christmas), hiking in St. George & many more things that are too numerous.  This is a child that almost died several months ago and suffered severe lung damage.  He is AMAZING!  Our new year has started and Andrew rode the school bus for the first time this week, to and from school, will be going to therapy once a week, ONCE A WEEK, and is starting to feel more like a normal boy instead of a chronically sick child.  We are truly blessed and can't wait for the future.  The future that I will place in my father's hands and will know that he will get our family through whatever is in store.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of the prayers, help, & numerous things that have been done in our families behalf.