We finally made it back to Brooks Rehabilitation yesterday and are in room #4413. Some of you are wondering why we didn't make it to the Mayo clinic. The Mayo clinic only has 200 rooms so it is very hard to transfer to that hospital, but we are going to contact a neurologist as needed on an outpatient basis. Dennis has continued to improve. He was able to move his knee yesterday on his left leg. His left side of his body was hit really hard by the pain of the meningitis and the transverse myelitis and was completely paralyzed until a week ago. We were told by doctors he needed to concentrate on moving a toe at a time, then the ankle so on and so on, but Dennis is making drastic strides towards his recovery. We are very encouraged and so is his physical therapist by his ability to move more and more of his legs everyday. He was also able to transfer from his hospital bed to his wheelchair with little assistance today and brought tears to all of our eyes. Carolyn (Dennis's mom) brought Cider (our four year old Bichon/poodle mix puppy) up to Brooks rehabilitation yesterday. Dennis has not been able to see her in a month and for anyone who really knows Dennis that dog is everything to him. It was very emotional for us all, but gave Dennis even more determination to work hard on his physical therapy. Check out his facebook page "Get Well Dennis" for the picture. Some of you were wanting the address to the rehabilitation hospital so I put the address below.
Brooks Rehabilitation
c/o Dennis Frasier Room#4413
3599 University Blvd South
Jacksonville, FL 32216
Keep us in your prayers, we see God's work already in the way that Dennis is progressing!!!!!!
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