Saturday, January 10, 1:30 PM

It has been an interesting, succesful and draining couple of days. Jonthan is waking up more and more - though still unaware of many things. Just yesterday he asked Charlie how long he'd been here. Charlie asked him how long he thought and Jonathan replied a couple of hours. We know that it's going to take some time before he's fully aware and we are waiting anxiously for that.

Yesterday was a success. Early yesterday morning, right on time, they took Jonathan down to the OR to get those wires of of his jaw. He came back in a lot of pain, but his jaw finally free. They gave him some of the good stuff (morphine) and after a little while he was out like a light. His jaw is stil very soar from everything so at times it's still hard to understand him perfectly, but it's definintely an improvement already.

Charlie stayed with him last night, and for the first time since ICU when he was sedated, he slept for 6 hours straight, and then a litle while later another 3 hours!! I was so excited to hear that news. He's been so restless this entire week. It's been rough trying to figure out what to do to ease the pain and his mind. On Thursday night i stayed with him, and I think he may hve slept a total of 30 minutes and that was scattered throughout the entire night. The only thing that calmed him, though still didn't put him to sleep, was me rubbing his hair. So, from 1 am til 7:30 I sat by his bed and that is what I did.

We are all so grateful as we see his progress. Sometimes when we get tired we forget about how far he has come, and that the struggle is part of the process. Soon we'll be able to sing with him "the struggle is over". Already, in so many ways, that's already true!

On Monday night, Rachel and I were staying with Jonathan before she had to go back to Louisiana. While we were in there with him the respiratory tech came in to give him his breathing treatment. She came in and said how amazing it was that he had progressed so far already. She then uttered one word, a word that sums it all up - "purpose" . . . We couldn't agree more. Just another little way God spoke. We're amazed each time God sends us one of His children our way to confirm to us what He's spoken, and we know in our hearts to be true!

Please continue to pray with us for progress. We're still unsure of his sight in his right eye. His left seems to be doing just fine. When asked if he can see us or if he can see an object he responds yes 95% of the time. So, yet another reason to praise the Lord!! Also, continue to pray that as everything begins to heal it would all heal properly, that his brain function would be back to 100% surely and shortly. We ask you that as you pray for Jonathan you would also pray for the family - as we get run down and sleep is short our bodies also start to respond negatiely to those conditions. A few of us are starting to feel some slight sickness - soar throats, headaches, stuffy nose, etc. So, as we pump ourselves with vitamins, pray that God would touch our bodies as well. We're so thankful to everyone for your prayers. We know that God has heard them all, and Jonathan's healing and recover is due to that. So, please, Keep it up! :)