Water therapy! - Blog update from Steve

Wednesday of this week, I got wet! Really, really wet! I enjoyed my
first session of water therapy, and it was great! After lacing me up with more flotation equipment than I knew existed, I was lowered into the therapy pool where I could move my legs much more normally. I was able to walk, push off the walls, and generally enjoy myself with my natural buoyancy offsetting the resistance of gravity.

I have been asking for hydro therapy since, according to Nancy, started talking again. Here we are, thirty months into this "journey,"and finally it has happened. I was so excited by my legs that I failed to notice if my arms did, but we will do it again this coming Wednesday. My therapists said I would be tired and sore afterwards, and they were right. I couldn't move for nearly a day.

It has been too hot and humid to do anything outdoors. Labor Day weekend gave us a bit of a reprieve, allowing Nancy and I to see Tim, Flora, the grandkids, and our Mason-side extended family. The rest of the week, however, felt like an overheated sauna. Soon, however, our bodies will be covered with "white death," and we will remember these "dog days" of summer as "not that bad, at all."

Thank you all for following my progress and praying for my recovery. All I can ask for is your continued support, thru prayer, for my healing and restoration, so that I may pursue the purpose of Christ for keeping me here in the first place.