TUESDAY MORNING

I was looking back at all the blog postings over the last several weeks and I was seeing a pattern, I started many of the blogs with "Molly had a great day" so in the spirit of not repeating myself, "Molly had a great weekend!" I hope it is not because I wasn't here, but she did have a great weekend with many visitors from friends and family. She enjoyed all the visits and really lifted her spirits. I hear that dialysis went really well on Saturday morning, and that yesteday, Monday she went and visited the rehab room and did very well. She ate quite a bit yesterday, did therapy had some milkshakes, had "MOMBO" rounds, etc., etc., etc.. It was a big weekend and a big day for her, but she was feeling great last evening when I left around 11pm. She told me that it felt good to be tired from doing stuff instead of being tired from being sick. Just as a reminder to everyone and to new visitors to Molly's Blog, you can reach us directly at: jameyandmolly@gmail.com and for anyone wanting to read about the history of Molly's illness you can read about it at: www.mfrenchtrek.blogspot.com Anyway, we are looking forward to a great week. Her kidneys continue to show signs of waking up, enough in fact that up until last evening the kidney doctors were considering not sending her to dialysis this morning, however, they did decide to send her. The good thing is that she did so well Saturday that today should go well. Also, since her kidneys are functioning somewhat and at least getting rid of fluid, when they run dialysis they should not have to take off any fluid and just simply filter her blood. The other good thing is that since they were still debating whether or not to send her today and this was after three days since her last treatment means that each session will be more as and when needed instead of going just because it is scheduled. Hopefully, by the end of this week we will be at a point where she will not need dialysis anymore. Tomorrow during wound rounds they will take her dressings down and look at her grafts. If they look as everyone expects them to look, her dressing changes will be very light from that point on, requiring only light sedation and pain management. Her other wounds sites look great from what I could see last night and now only requiring cocoa butter. (of course when I say only cocoa butter, it is a special cocoa butter with lots of other good stuff in it) but this is good as the wounds do not need to be wrapped, and have all the scrubbing and specialized ointments and creams to be applied. In fact, last evening as I was walking in i ran into one of the chief's and the attending trauma surgeon and they both told me before I even saw Molly, that she was doing great and that by the end of this week or the first of next week for sure she will be moved off the Trauma/Burn unit and to the Inhouse Acute Rehab Unit. WOOOOOHOOOOOO! Once in rehab she will get 5-7 hours of therapy everyday. In fact, every activity she does from the time she gets up in the morning until the time she goes to bed will involve therapy. I have know doubt that if the rehab center follows the same level of quality as the rest of the U of M Hospital does as well as the team approach her rehab will be amazing! She is looking forward to it, as am I. A few weeks of rehab here we will be ready to search out an inpatient, rehab center closer to home for a few weeks. What a great day that will be!!!! We continue to be amazed at the all the cards, comments, emails, phone calls, visits, etc, . we continue to recieve and all the gifts of money, gift cards, etc. Molly and I were talking about it last night about how special all these are to us and no way for us to every properly say 'thank you' enough and share how much they are all appreciated. We still beleive the best way we can express our thanks and appreciation is to use our experience in a manner that helps others both emotionally and financially by spreading the word, helping to educate (families, victims, community at large, and even healthcare workers and physicians) raise money, etc. As for me, I had a good weekend and got caught up on my rest on Saturday and got all my errands, etc. done on Sunday & Monday. It feels good to get home and get things done, but it felt good coming back to Michigan (Wow, those are words I would have never expected to say). But it was nice to see Molly, because after 3 full days, I missed her and couldn't wait to get back to see her, see how she was doing, and to see how her weekend went. It is very cool to see the little changes and improvements she makes each day and I am in awe when you see them added up all at once. SPECIFIC AREAS TO PRAY FOR

• Kidneys to continue to improve and to get off dialysis
• Wounds to heal so she can get to rehab this week
• Rehab to go well so we can get back to OHIO in a few weeks
• Wisdom to ask the right questions as we look for a place for her to get rehab closer to home
• Strength, courage and wisdom as we begin to look at how we want to help others and to spread the word.
• Travel mercies for all the friends and family coming up to see Molly
• Trauma/Burn nurses working this week. They have several very difficult cases this week, both from the illness/injury perspective, but also from the patient and their family as well.

Thanks again for all the prayers and positive thoughts, keep them coming!

God Bless each of you today,

Love,

Molly and Jamey