favor from God

The speech therapist Lisa who's working with Keith this week said that Keith truly has the favor from God. There are only 2 very skilled speech therapist in the Torrance Hospital. Lisa and the other speech therapist who has been assigned to Keith. As the other therapist went on a short vacation, she gave her list of patients to Lisa giving her the freedom to choose whom she wants to see, then give the remaining patients to the less experienced/skilled speech therapists. However, when the list was given to Lisa, the other therapist said "you must see Keith while I'm away". Lisa said those type of requests rarely occur. If Keith was assigned to other therapists, he would not be given the professional care that Lisa can give. In sharing all this, she concluded that Keith truly has the favor of God. We praise God that Lisa is a committed Christian who prayerfully works with her patients and can testify of God's hand upon Keith.

Keith is slowly getting his sensation back in his body. It seems that as parts of his body is waking up, he's becoming more aware of the stiffness/pain/numbness. Whenever we went into his room today, we saw him exercising his right arm by himself. His right shoulder area is in pain. We're so proud that he's utilizing his time exercising and not just laying there so still...he's really fighting hard to full recovery.

Some of you have been wondering why Keith is not fully waking up...why it's taking so long. This is a result of the sodium imbalance when Keith became dehydrated during his stay at his previous hospital. The imbalance caused swelling in his body and his brain. The swelling in his brain caused some damage to the #3 nerve which is recovering slowly...

Items of Prayer:
-Speech therapy - we're going to try to give him some homemade porridge tomorrow. Hopefully with some yummy Korean food, he will be interested in eating and become skilled in the art of swallowing. Pray that he will continue to work his diaphram, which allows sound to be released to speak.
-Physical & occupational therapy - continue to regain strength.
-Stable sugar level.