I just wanted to send a quick note to you, Ray and of course Debbie for the prayers that you all said for Nicholas...Whether Nicholas has an organic reason for his problems that your prayers helped heal or the strength given to Kathy and I to toughen up and give Nicholas tough love when it was needed does not matter...What does matter is that we have our son back smiling, happy and on the road to recovery...There is no doubt your prayers and support were a huge reason for his turnaround...
Following our visit in February, Nicholas spent 11 days at Columbia followed by an additional 19 days in an in-house physical rehabilitation facility...He has gone from a 9 year old boy in a wheelchair with crippling pain, back into his normal self...He is running around, playing baseball with his friends and doing just about everything he was prior to his problems...Its an unbelievable turnaround from the child you all saw only 3 1/2 months ago...Last weekend I sat in the cheap seats high above Yankee stadium (I think God was sitting in the row behind us...That's how high we sit) with Nicholas sitting next to me with tears in my eyes...We were doing something we both loved doing together...Something I thought would never happen again...
While Nicholas is doing better, he still has alot of grueling rehab to go...He still has weakness in his upper body and of course weakness in his left leg...The pain is not totally gone, but its much better and he is off all but one medication...We are cautiously optimistic that he will continue moving in the right direction towards a full recovery...
Again, thanks so much to everyone for your prayers...