Josh's Updates: May 2009

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Jake, Josh, Justin, & Colton are back doing what they love the most - Working Pack Attack Lawn Care together!
Wow what a tender mercy of the Lord to see this happen. Thank you for your prayers, please keep them coming they are working and we need them each day.

An intense conversation, trying to hear each other over the noise of the mowers.

"Hell yah" this is the life!! Good times

The Sweet and Simple things of life!

Continually recovering

Doing pushups on a ball, Josh you are starting look like the "old" Josh physically!

Getting those back extenser strong, because we can't stand without them.

Steve had the great idea of being very innovative with an old schwinn airdyne bike. He took the seat off and sat Josh in a chair, taped Josh's feet on the pedals, and looked at him and said "okay buddy it is up to you to get those legs around. Well the first tijme on he did 5 times around. Wow we were so excited. The next time that we went he went 12 times around. Well this week he went 32 revolutionaries around with no help and then another 36 times around, so amazing!

After 36 times around Steve gave Josh a big hug

Another innovative idea the "health rider" normall hated by all therepists, but working for Steve and Josh. Josh is pushing with his legs and strengthening his arms

Therapy Buddies, Jake and Gage

What would we ever do without family?

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