Some of you may recall that Mommie's older JW brother was critically injured in a fall at work last winter. He fell 30 feet from a ladder and landed on his hardhat; his initial prognosis of doom gave way to astonishment when it was discovered that he had broken NO vertebrae... no permanent spinal injury at all. After weeks in a drug-induced coma, the swelling on his brain subsided, and he woke, complaining, to the great relief of all family members, who recognize irascibility as normal behavior for one of us.
At the time I was frutrated and angry at the trickledown of grudging info to the unbelieving relatives. Since then I have managed to just be grateful for his continued recovery, and to put their childish vindictive behavior into its perspective. This was partly due to the kindness of my fellow exes, who helped me get past the anger and into that level space. Thanks; you know who you are.
So this update is for those of you who expressed concern and care for Larry's well-being. His neurologists say that his amazing recovery is mostly due to his abnormal bone density. Apparently he really is THE most thick-skulled human these doctors have ever seen; his bone mass is far heavier and denser than 'normal', and that is probably why he is recovering so fast. (and it explains so MUCH...wonder if Mommie shares his thickhaidedness? LOL)
He is still looking at a long road of physical therapy and he will have to work hard, but I hear thru the persistent family grapevine that he is doing great, and the pictures he sends to the nieces/nephews who are not shunned are being shared with Auntie Mommie, so I know he looks pretty good for a guy who was so near death so recently. At last report he was still mostly in the wheelchair but his progress is good and his prognosis hopeful.
Now that he's out of the woods, I can only hope that someday he will find his way out of the Tower's shadow too. But one miracle at a time...