August 24, 2008

On August 20th Chris seen the doctor in Salt Lake City again. The Doctors and physical therapy staff were all impressed with how well he is healing, several were shocked to learn he is playing full contact football with his graphs only being 60 days old. He started school on Monday the 18th, which make for very long days. It starts at 6:45 am with waking up and heading to physical therapy in Elko, coming home and getting his garment on to go to school, then after school he goes to football practice till 6:00pm. This week he is planning on cutting physical therapy back to 3 days a week. The football team had a scrimmage against Eureka Saturday and Chris got to play several plays, all though he has a way to go to get back to his peak he played well. He still has a hard time with the lungs but they seem like they are improving, and he says sliding across the grass hurts worse than anything.

August 13, 2008

It has now been a month since Chris left the hospital and returned to Carlin, so much has happened in the month but Chris is still doing good, he has his bad days and still manages to keep a great attitude about what has happened to him. Football starts tomorrow (Thursday the 14th) and Chris plans on being there and starting the 2 a day practices, The doctors have released him to play football as long as he wears his Garments and does not get over heated. The doctor told Chris that this was his greatest concern and as long has he can handle the heat he was fine, the doctor did state he may want to start off with a smaller guy to hit him first in which Chris replied "some of our guys a pretty small I may want to go with a medium size". Chris still has to go to physical therapy 5 times a week where they continue to try to keep his arm pits and other graphs stretched out, these are still very painful and still requires a lot of stretching at home as well. His first set of Garments did not fit properly and was to tight for him to wear, he just received his new ones this week and has been in them for a full day, the problem now is his opens sores from blisters that continue to develop over some of the scars, he has been into the doctor several times to remove these blisters so they will heal properly but this creates the open sores that stick to his garments . We have made several trips back to Salt Lake as well for follow up visits and physical therapy consults. All of his skin graphs have taken and are healing nicely, one thing that may become a problem later is that his mouth is not opening all the way because of some scaring and he may have to have surgery later this year to correct that. We are so happy to be home and are still overwhelmed with the support we have received from the community and friends, Thank all of you that have supported us and helped us in anyway, we will continue to update the blog and will attempt to update it a little more often.