Beth's Latest Blog Entry for Zach

I wanted to share something with all of you about Zach that might help in your understanding of his condition. It is probably very hard for someone who has not been with him from the beginning of this to realize that the great progress he has made is not equivalent with him being normal and going home in a few days. Way are so optimistic and we pray that God would heal him, but we also realize that it is a baby step process.

When Zach "played basketball" the other day, it wasn't literally playing basketball. We were excited because he could pick up the basketball and purposefully throw it. When he says words, they are often slow and slurred and hard to understand. When we make him get up for a walk, he cries almost the entire time he is up. When he stacks blocks in the playroom he also cries while he's doing it, and he is very weak and slow in his movements.

I write this because I want all of you who are praying along with us to understand as we have come to understand that this could be months of hard work and therapy for our little guy to come completely back to us. And the truth is he may be a little different when he does come back. That is okay-he is alive, he is awake, and he is improving every day.

What we need to pray for now is that he will begin to really eat. He gets 75 percent of his food at night so we have to try to get him to make up the 25 percent that he needs during the day.

I am about to go do laundry so I will see you all later!

Blessings
Beth