Friday Evening, June 30th

Fun, fun day today. Started of kind of slow and tired but kept progressing and picking up speed as we went along.

Allie's therapies didn't start until 10 this morning so we had a lot of time to burn early in the morning as Allie decided to get me up at 4:00am and I couldn't get her back to bed till around 5:00. She said she was tired of lying down and just wanted to stand for awhile - and she did, she just stood for around 40 minutes, then I called the nurse who got her back in bed and she slept for a few more hours.

Allie is still confused (alot) but is coming aroung more and more every day. She still talks about her knees and her legs being broken and is fixed o how her brother is doing but different words and things she used to do and say keep popping up - she just called me Steve-O, which is what she used to call me all the time. Nancy and I both heard it and we looked at each other. I said to Allie that's what you used to call me and she said "I did?" - it never sounded so sweet but it's so cool when these old thing just pop out, deep down you just pump your fist and go YES!

Nancy and I had a lot of time off today due to her therapies being clustered together and then her friends coming to visit so we took advantage of it and went downtown for breakfast at a lovely hotel and then dinner this evening. While walking downtown we went into a lovely shop called Go Fish and met the nicest people Tom the owner and Christy the best salesperson ever. We bought Allie a beautiful purple hat and a great pair of leopard slipper shoes (just her style)

The doctor said we can take Allie out of the hospital on Sunday for a day out, so we will take her to a park and out to lunch. We are so excited we can hardly keep from jumping up and down. Her friend Rachael said they went out for a walk tonight and Allie sat on a swing and wa swinging. Scared the heck out of me when I heard it because I didnlt know she was capable of that but she said she was doing it well and they swang and talked. How cow how can you be co excited and scared at the same time - wierd protection thing going on, gonna have to learn how to deal with that. Rachael also said that Allie remembered alot of thigs so that's awesome. Allie now remebers all of our dogs and all kinds of things - as she would say "So far, so good" Man have we been blessed!

Her therapists have been working hard with her and Mark the PT has been doing an exceptional job with her and communicating his game plan with us and then telling us how she carried it out. He has been taking her on walks and giving her key to remember where she is and how to get back, trying to make her more independant. Right now you could walk her around a turn or two and she would not be able to get back where she started from - but that's today, tomorrow the miracle girl will do it.

I get to sleep ar the Ronald McDonald house tonight and Nancy will stay her - we swap off every other night when we can. Luck for me to have the night off as they have stopped Allie's sleeping pill - I'll pray extra hard for Nancy.

So as the journey continues we continue to thank God for allowing us to have this journey and for stregnthening(?) us as a family. We thank him for allowung us to turn this incident into a full blown ministry of healing people which grows every day and we thank him for all of our friends old and new. We thank him for gicing us the ability to stay in harmony and to help others see the better side of their tragedies and we thank him for the end of the day when we can all pray and lie in peace.

I would like to thank my friends wonderwoman Allison Babin and super sweet Kim Parish for the fundraising events they are doing for us this weekend and to everyone who has purchased a shirt or sent a donation. You guys are our blessings.

I must thank everyone who has said a prayer or wished us well - your kind words are so special to us. Please do not ever think a donation is necessary as we are happy to send you a bracelet just for asking - we want you wearing it so people will know that you are a caring, loving person and someone they can turn to for a kind word.

So as the night draws to a close - sleep good my friends we love and appreciate you. Please send the blog to everyone you know. There is strength in numbers and we want to build a worlwide network of prayer warriors and trauma friends.

Together we can create a better world.

Allie's Dad