Keith transported to his new facility

GREAT NEWS!!!

 

Today we transported Keith by ambulance to Arcadia Methodist Hospital Acute Rehab Center where he will be hospitalized for the next step in his rehabilitation process.  When we arrived to pick up Keith, he was sitting in a wheelchair receiving his breathing treatment.  When he saw us he immediately acknowledged each of us by name (Me, Danny, Pedro and Jonathan).  Keith was joking and in excellent spirits.  I called Ray and Brian individually so they could both talk to Keith.  They were both excited to talk to him and overwhelmed with excitement to hear him speak, answer questions and just to listen to Keith’s enthusiasm.  While there may have been a few “doubters” who the validity of the progress on Keith as reported on this blog, family and friends have supported this blog and its accuracy.  More importantly, family and friends are truly excited to see Keith come from a severely critical condition to the amazing progress we are seeing just 6-weeks later.  Today we are all thankful for what God has done in healing Keith. 

 

Keith looks great (although he commented to Jenny after looking in the mirror about how his head looked “funky” since there is the slight indentation where the piece of skull needs to be replaced…which we joked about with him as well and he commented about needing to wear a hat), sounds great, is talkative, funny, remembers everyone from work, and it was just AWESOME to see how far he has come.  We talked about him getting out of the hospital soon so we could make a run to play some Blackjack where he responded “I am up for that”.  Keith was able to walk on his own today and does so with no assistance.  He is eating and continues to make progress.  His long term memory is great although he does get a bit confused on some of the sort term memory items.  Continued therapy and rehabilitation should help in this area.

 

We were ALL ecstatic, joyful and overcome with a variety of emotions to see or hear the amazing “positive” changes in Keith.  We are thankful for all the support and today Keith told me how thankful he is for everything.  I know the family is very thankful as well.  There has been tremendous support from family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances and even our vendors.  On behalf of the family and Keith’s extended family at Bowers Ambulance, THANK YOU for your continued support and for continuing to pray for Keith’s healing.