Josh's Updates: Big Day

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Big Day

As usual, Josh was a fighter! Josh was able to move his wrist for the first time today, he is so far ahead of what is expected. Josh also had his feeding tube removed today and is able to eat what he wants to. (We all know how much Josh likes to eat :) ) The feeding tube was necessary because of the surgery. The incision was made in the front of his neck, which caused a lot of swelling and pain in his throat. Josh has a bit of fluid in his lungs, which caused him to get a fever today that gradually rose throughout the day, so a second surgery that was planned for tomorrow has been postponed until probably Tuesday. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers!!! We love you.

1 comment:

Jeff and Erin said...: Hello Pack family. My husband was a former student of Bro Pack and we just wanted you to know that our thoughts and prayers are with your family. What a trial this has got to be but Josh seems like an awesome young man and he seems to have a great attitude and determination to get through this. We hope that things continue to go well and he has a fast and miraculous recovery.
-Jeff and Erin Johnson; August 3, 2008 at 11:25 PM

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July 30, 2008

Josh was spending the day with his family at the Holmes family reunion. They were all having some 'fun in the sun' at Pineview Reservoir. Josh had been impressing everyone with his wakeboarding skills and took a couple bad wrecks. Later that day he was swimming off the shore at Middle Inlet with his brothers Justin and Colton. Josh was standing in the water almost to his waist when he did a swimmers dive to go in for a swim. Josh remembers hitting the sand. He was instantly paralyzed and was not able to come up. His brothers swimming close by noticed his back arched and his head under and wondered what he was doing, they swam over to him and helped him out to the shore, Josh coughed up some water, and told them he thought he was drowning. Justin touched Josh's leg and he could not feel them. 911 was called immediately, within 4-5 min. the paramedics were there and called life-flight. Josh was transported to the Hospital.

D&C 122:7