My Buds are Here!

Today is Saturday. I just had DK, Chris, Kirsten, Andrea and Mr. and Mrs Karrer and the Rosengarth Family here visiting with me.

Chris and DK are just crazy! I went for a small walk and got to hang in the chair! They are coming back tonight so mom, dad, grandma and grandpa can go to dinner. Plus they will be back tomorrow.

I slept better last night and now am ready to nap again. I am going to eat my chicken strips and then crash for a bit.

Thanks for checking in!

Josh

Good Night From Seattle

Okay it is time to say goodnight - I have filled your ears tonight. Another blessing his eye check went really well and they expected him to be where he was expected.

His steroids were cut in half and he had a mild reaction but nothing like he has had. Our major praise - his headache is gone! Bye Bye Headache. We now have a jump on the pain and will be keeping ahead of it. Woohoo!

He has a busy day tomorrow - we are having company and is Josh pumped! His buds and are coming! We look forward to seeing DK, Chris and Kirsten tomorrow! Woohoo a party in room 3026! He thinks this is even better than having Captain.

Tomorrow night we are calling the Doggy Inn so he can call Captain and see if he comes to the sound of his voice - he is missing him and wants to know if he is missing him!

More tomorrow night - we are on our way to bed soon! Laundry is going and Aunt LeMay is on night duty. She has to go home to Brendon and Uncle Doug tomorrow, and boy or boy are we going to miss her!

Have a blessed evening!
A rejoicing mom! Lori

THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Okay I have to post these before I forget - I tried to do one long one, but my signal is too week.

What blessings we have been having from our friends and family.

The Youngs - wowowow you overwhelmed us with your outpour of love. The blankets are wonderful - Josh can't have his on for long because of the steriods making him to hot - but the snacks were the best. Thank you for the rainy day! Sarah is cooking up a storm with Aunt Kathy so she will have stuff to share.

Billy Ray and Peggy - Josh has not been up to opening his gift - but mom peeked and you are awesome. He will be opening it later. Sarah's is for when we get home, thank you for thinking of her.

Donna and Max we got it today - but he will open later. He is going to be pumped - he was trying to talk me into getting it for him. He just opened them and is jazzed. The book is perfect for him to work on reading again with his poor eyesight. Josh said you got him the best book.

Welty family - so how did you do that - you are amazing. He hasn't looked yet - but great job. You are taking such good care of our Angel.

Stephani - he loves the game and is waiting not very patiently for his eyes to clear so he can play. Then he wants to compete against you.

Grace Fellowship - you amaze us!

Our Children's Hospital Family

Dr. Ojemann - you are truly a blessing from God and your hands are a gift. Thank you so much for loving our Josh and being the "world known surgeon". Hugs to you!

Dr. Ellenbogen - Thank you for your blessing to this family. You are an awesome man and I am so glad you spilled the secret. You made this mom so happy!

Dr. Patrick - what can we say, we would love to have you as Josh's uncle. You are a favorite and Josh looks forward daily to your visits - it is his highlight. The whole family loves you and we thank you for answering our endless and very silly questions sometimes!

Liz - what a wonder woman you are. Taking our Josh into your heart and loving us all so much. You have answered endless questions and patiently listened and let me cry. We thank you! Josh wants to know how often he can call you!

Kathy - you were the best thing God did for me in ER. You were patient and let me rant and rave and share my frustrations. Josh thinks you are awesome.

Miss Fiona - you are our angel. God blessed us the day you walked into our room. Thank you so much for answering our endless questions and loving us as your family.

Stephanie - you made our first day so awesome. There was so much fear and anxiety, but you calmed us down and helped us adjust.

Erin - our night angel. After last night words can not express how much we love you and what a blessing you are to us! I have tears streaming down my face in the love you shared!

Christina - you are amazing and we love you over and over. You are as beautiful on the inside as you are the outside. Thank you for the loving care you give us all.

Other third floor nurses, blessing upon you, know that you are on our praise to the Lord. We have decided that Children's only hires the best!

Our ICU nurses -

Beth - there are not words to express how awesome you are and the amazing things you did as he recovered. When our patience wore thin - you were there and helping us laugh and see the joy in his recovery.

Gretchen - you humor and smiles lightened up a very tense time in our lives. I love laughing with you about my rest in MRI! You are great!

To our therapists - we thank you so much for taking Josh into your hearts and working with him! Thank you for helping us in our adventure!

Ron our Chaplin - Josh so appreciates you and your keeping him in your prayers, he is praying that you will blessed repeatedly for the giving you do to others.

Other staff at Children's - you have blessed us so much with you love and genuine care of children. What an amazing group of talented people.

Last but not least our precious Jen from Child Play Therapist - tears of thanks are running down our face. You knew what we needed before we knew we needed. The time you took with Josh and Sarah to help them understand, you are the best. God blessed us by bringing you into our lives. Sarah is still asking about you because she loves you! Thank you so much!

To our family and friends that don't know these precious angels - please join the Henry Family in praying for them and thanking the Lord and help us rain praises down upon them. We love them so much!

The Henrys

Bruce, Lori, Josh, and Sarah

Josh is Walking!

I have been trying for the last 3 hours to post and it won't let me - but look I did it!

Praises and more praises in Seattle. Josh had an okay night - but is having a fantastic day and making some great strides. He started off this morning with a CAT scan and it came back awesome. Right now it looks like the valve is opening up and he won't need a shunt - but we still have till Monday to know. Keep those prayers rolling, but if no shunt we are on our way home.

Then the physical therapist came and Josh got up and walked out into the hallway. He was awesome and so focused. He then had his speech therapist and he sat down in a chair for the entire time! What a guy he is and doing so well!

Keep on joining us in prayer - our God is an awesome God! We are sending praises upward, please join us!

The Henrys
Bruce, Lori, Josh and Sarah

Josh sharing!

Hi this is Josh! It is Friday, the worst part about today is I have had a pretty bad headache. It is pretty boring. All I have been doing since surgery is test, test, test and more test. Today I am going to have a CAT scan.

I had school yesterday and she is coming back today.

Thank you Amoz, Dakota, Aaron, Chris, and Jake for shaving their heads.

Hey to Kirsten, Nicole, Dani, Holly, Kali, Justynn, Luke and all my buds.

Thanks LPMS for your prayers!

See you soon! Hopefully!

See you all later -
Josh

DK and Chris I need some serious help here so ship yourself here and help me.

Sarah Bear

Sarah - look I am using pink. I am sorry you were crying, but you know what Josh said tonight - he wishes he was playing with you and Ryan and Marcia. He thinks you are having a lot of fun without him. So you ask Ryan and Marcia and Aunt Kathy if over Christmas break you all can spend the night together at Aunt Kathy's and have more fun.

We miss you too and know that you are getting the attention you need with Aunt Kathy - mommy and daddy are busy helping Josh get better so we can come and get you and head home to Captain.

We love you and keep this picture close so we won't miss you too much. I love you my princess!

Mommy, Daddy, and Josh

We are finally resting!

Josh is sleeping, and this is Josh this morning! Still as handsome as ever!!!!!!!!!!

It is 1:05 am and my shift - takes both Bruce and I to replace Aunt LeMay. She is going to let us get a good night's rest tomorrow night before flying home again. Thanks Doug and Brendon for sharing this angel with us.

I know you all want to hear from Josh, but his concentration, his eyesight and strength are so low right now - he could not type in and really is not interested much - but he loves hearing your posts as we share them with him.

We have another praise - he is doing so well we are off the two hour checks from the nurses and back to the normal four! Amazing remembering just two nights ago he was in ICU. So many of you want to know from home, when are we going to see him. We don't know and neither do the doctors - it all depends on the drainage - he has a tube coming out of his head draining the spinal fluid - normal procedure. FRED was sitting upon the top of the valve where the fluid should be draining and we don't know if that valve is open or not. Josh has a CAT scan later this morning. If the valve is opening up - which we are praying - then we could be released on Wednesday. If it is not then a shunt will be put in and we don't know how much longer. The fluid draining off is less than it was - about half - this could be a praise as it could be draining inside- or the fluid could be building back up - we don't think that because his headaches have not returned.

School - that is up to Josh he could go back for half a day if he is up to it - or may not return till after Christmas for a half days. His healing will direct what we do. Right now he is a miracle child - nah it is just continuing from birth. But I do know he is excited to return and share his science project of FRED with pictures and all.

Well I am going to try and answer some of my email and then work on grading some papers and figuring my awesome students grades. Thank you all for your outpouring of love to us - you will never know the impact you made on this family!

Goodnight
The Henrys