Visit To The Doctor's Office (Plastic Surgeon)

Well, I had a follow up visit with the Plastic Surgeon today. He said I am healing nicely and removed the bandage and staples out of my noggin' today.... now I just have to wait for the swelling in my left eye to go down...

Joe Wright Letter

Ever since my initial accident in February 2007, I have found myself becoming more spiritual. I am not a "born-again" christian or anything like that. I was raised Catholic, went to a catholic grade school, was an alter boy, and have received my sacraments but have largely been a non-practicing catholic for most of my life. Now I definitely believe that God was watching over me the night of my accident and there are so many factors that involved me learning a very valuable lesson. I came across the prayer below and wanted to post it here to share with my friends and family.

This is a prayer as delivered on January 23, 1996 by Pastor Joe Wright to the Kansas House of Representatives.

Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask Your forgiveness and seek Your direction and guidance. Lord, we know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good," but that's exactly what we've done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.

We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it moral pluralism.

We have worshipped other gods and called it multi-culturalism.

We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation.

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem.

We have abused power and called it political savvy.

We have coveted our neighbors' possessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our fore-fathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us oh God and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.

Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas, and who have been ordained by You, to govern this great state. Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Thank you for reading this and may god bless you and your loved ones as I feel I have been blessed.

I'm Home!

I was discharged from Loyola today and got home around 3:00pm. I have my head wrapped like any head injury patient would have and am beginning my recovery period. The doctors did not give me any restrictions, they said "Whatever you can tolerate".... I dont think I will be riding my mountain bike for a few days though.

Recovery

Well, I am recovering at Loyola right now, my surgery was a success and I am healing nicely. The doctor has hinted that I might be discharged tomorrow (Monday). A lot of people have asked how I look, I'll say this much.... my forehead is round again, but my left eye is completely swollen shut.... with time the swelling should go down.....

My Surgery

Well, as many of you already know, I am undergoing surgery at Loyola Hospital to repair my fractured skull. My surgery is scheduled for 7:00 am on Friday October 26, 2007. I will be at Loyola Hospital for 4-5 days and then sent home for recovery. I welcome visitors and I hope to see some of my friends up there! I am very excited about this surgery because this is will allow me to finally get on with my life and get back on my feet again.

I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who has given their support and well wishes. It is a wonderful feeling knowing how many people truely care.

Ciccadas Atttack!

Well the good ol' Ciccadas made their appearance this year after hiding for the past 17 years, I vaguely remember seeing the ciccadas the last time they were out. Here is a video of Trevor with a nice juicy ciccada on his hand. He was good with it but Kevin wanted absolutely nothing to do with them and was scared of any live ones.

Da Boyz

I had Trevor and Kevin this past weekend, the weather was nice so we spent most of our time outdoors. Here is a nice picture of Trevor and Kevin with my mom. It's so hard to get both T & K to both look at the camera and be able to take a nice photograph.

Here is one of them at the park.