Josh's Updates: Jan 5th our first week of "real" Craig therapy

Monday, January 12, 2009

Jan 5th our first week of "real" Craig therapy

Getting into a full week of therapy has been a dream come true. After being on your back, for almost 5 months, getting into full therapy is great! We have had a week of Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, pool therapy, FES Bike, and the standing frame. Boy does it feel good to be upright!
All of this equipment is a great blessing in our lives right now. We are finding and exercising muscles that have been asleep for a few months now. It is going to be a lot of hard work but we are all up to the task.
We continue to be blessed by the miracles of the Lord, and thank each one of you who continue to fast and pray in our behalf. We feel of your strength each day and thank you for not forgetting us. We miss you and love you all!

Justin & Josh here at "Club Craig"

Marne' Josh, Cord, and Simba, feels so good to stand! We think Josh has grown an inch or two?

Lisa, Marne' & Josh going up in the standing frame!

Josh on the FES bike

7 comments:

Laundry said...: YAY!!!! that's so awesome!!!! i'm so glad to see him standing!!!; January 12, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Anonymous said...: Way to go josh!! awesome! so how much movement does he have now? arms? legs? feet? if someone could post a comment with the answer i'm sure we'd all very much appreciate it! we're still praying for you!!; January 13, 2009 at 1:33 AM
Unknown said...: We love you Josh!!! Keep up the good work; January 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM
melba said...: Always like the pictures and see the progress being made. But still love to feel of your spirits in the words.

Hoping this week will be even better. Thanks for the surprise last Friday.
Love to all,
Nana; January 13, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Anonymous said...: Josh, you look great. I am sure you feel better just being out of that darn bed! WE are so excited oyu get to enjoy pool and all the other great exercises. Keep up the hard work. We know you can do it! Are you in a manual chair? You GO BOY!!! We are proud of you. We could tell from the first day we met you that you were a fighter!Way to go. Keep pushing!; January 17, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Mammanett said...: Josh, keep up the hard work - I continue to pray for your full recovery!
Yes you can!; January 18, 2009 at 8:32 PM
cindy-stitches-n-stuff.blogspot.com said...: Hi Josh, I peaked at you blog while I was on Becky Lewis's blog. It's been quite awhile since I've heard anything about you. I'm so excited for you to be in therapy.

Tell you mom and Dad hello from Cindy Geilmann in South Jordan.

Keep up the good work.; January 25, 2009 at 8:28 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