Visit with Santa

Luke is doing great from his surgery on Monday. You really would never know he had anything done. He was pretty quite in the hospital, but he is back to himself after getting home. He is really starting to want to see everything. He is getting great at using his finger to open his left eye and sometimes his right. I can't imagine how frustrated he has to be at times, but rarely does he show it. What a trooper he is! We are meeting with the doctor the beginning of January to discuss the surgery to open the eyes. We met with the ENT that did Luke's tubes yesterday, and they are both out. He will be getting them put back in in January so we can start going to Oxygen Therapy again. We have taken a much longer break than we would have liked, but did not want to chance it with the aneurysm.

Yesterday, Lynsey and Luke got to sit on Santa's lap. Luke was excited! He kept opening up his eye to look at Santa. When Santa asked if he would like some trucks he smiled and made his cute little sound. We have taken it pretty easy with him this week as far as working him out. I will say, with his flash cards he is able to recognize numbers and letters. I have even written mom, dad, sis, and Luke. He is great at picking out his name. I can also give him simple math problems 2 + 2 and he will pick the right answer most of the times. I really feel in my heart he knows everything he knew before the accident, it is just a matter now of getting his body to work. I know it will take a long time too. It is amazing how much your body loses muscle tone, etc. in such a short amount of time. We do have a physical therapist that started coming to the house last week. I think he is going to be great for Luke. God bless you all and have a great weekend!