Alan Update #5
[I was typing this earlier and realized it was taking a while so I sent the quick update out.]
God is good all the time! Ginny and I are in the hospital cafeteria and Ginny is wolfing down a burger and fries like she hasn’t eaten in a week - which she nearly hasn’t.
Alan is off having a post-operative MRI, and rumor has it that the doctor will be stopping by sometime soon.
My apologies for the short update last night. It literally took me an hour to write it as I kept falling asleep and despite knowing that it was poorly written I finally realized I needed to at least get some news out and just sent it.
Yesterday was a long dark day. Ginny, Amber, and I drove Alan to Philly at 5am in a monsoon and then waited (many thanks to my sister Dari, John McGinley, BOB Graham, and Kit Basset for hanging with us all day or we might not have made it) for nearly 9 hours to see him again and when we did he was just laying there and couldn’t move his left side. We finally drove home in the rain, glad the operation was over, but not so reassured about the future.
I got up this morning and saw Amber off on the school bus and watched the Sun come up and make it a much nicer day than yesterday. A call to the nurses station who said Alan was awake and doing well (and that they’d let us sneak in early to see him) buoyed our spirits as we made the much nicer sunny drive down to Philly. But, walking into his room to see him sitting up in a chair and have him say hi to us, was quite simply stunning and made our hearts soar! He told us how the physical therapists were just in and how he can lift his left arm and leg and move his left foot around and move his fingers a little. Still some ways to go there, but the therapists said they were very surprised at his amazingly quick progress. Those of us who know how many people are praying for Alan are not surprised at all - God is good and we thank you all for those prayers!
Hopefully we will see the Dr soon and then I will send another update.
Thanks again to everyone, please keep Alan in your prayers as we move on to the next mando in his recovery. (Sorry - a disc golf term for an obstacle to be negotiated on the course - thanks to Chris and Bear for the great analogy!)
Tim - we told Alan how Marie has you smoking a cigar a day until he is better in his honor and he said he doesn’t want you developing a bad habit due to him. He said he likes rootbeer floats a whole lot too and maybe you’d prefer one of those a day instead!
BTW - are there any Eric Clapton fans out there? Alan is probably one of his biggest fans and the Sweeton family had planned on going to his concert at the PNC Bank Arts Center on May 22nd at 7:30pm but unfortunately will now need to miss it. We have four tickets for Terrace Left Section 405 Row K Seats 9,11,13,15. We paid $603.55 for them but will let them go to a good home for $500. Let me know if interested.