It's the small things in life that are truly big

Today was a great day. Dad went to the orthopedic doctor and she said she wants to start the bone graphs in a few weeks. He goes to talk to plastics tomorrow to get more information about his skin graph and how that is holding up. When I got to my parents today, dad opened a card we got in the mail from from Uncle Marvin. It was great to see the picture of his family and how they are doing. Dad reads every card and you can tell he gets choked up, especially when it comes from his family. It is hard knowing that we all live so far apart but in times like these, he especially loves seeing and hearing from his brothers and sisters. It makes him feel like he hasn't been away from them as long as it has been.

After we sat and talked about the cards he got in the mail, I cooked dad and mom dinner and mom called to say she was going to see grandma. Right away, dad decided he was in good enough shape to make his first trip to see grandma since their accident. It was crazy in the beginning, right after the accident, because dad truly thought we were all lying and he thought grandma didn't make it. We had to have them talk on the phone to help him believe us. So for him, today was a wonderful feeling to see her alive and healing.

We pulled up to her rehab and  dad spotted her being pushed back from dinner. I pushed him up to her and she could hear our voices. At first she saw me and the nurse said do you know these people and she looked at dad and didn't remember his name. We think it was because she wasn't expecting to see dad there in front of her; we surprised her. Then it registered and dad started getting teary eyed and said, "Well, we survived! We are here! Can you believe it?!?" Grandma was in shock and aww to see dad. It was something so small to have the two of them in their wheelchairs looking at one another but such a big victory for the both of them.

Grandma seems to be forgetting things more and we feel it is because of her being in the hospital and rehab for so long now. Hopefully in a few weeks she will be able to go back home.

Our family can't say thank you enough for all the things people have done that to them, seems so small, but to us they are HUGE! Through all of this you truly begin to realize that it is the "small" things in life that people do for you that you remember the most!