We had an amazing month last month. April 4th was the day of Bill's surgeries. They went well. His right eye was lowered from seeing 60% from the normal plane to 8% from the normal plane. This has moved the two images he was seeing closer together. Now his brain just needs to figure out what he is seeing! His facial reconstruction has so far held his cheek up. The right side of his mouth is in a lovely upward curve. We are going to give it another month to see if it is going to hold there (the cheek is a heavy thing) and then we will break out the party hats, print a before and after picture, and get him new glasses! Thank you for all of your prayers.
Your prayers are very effective as they spilled over to bless our house. Just a week after surgery John and Vera, Bill's brother and sister, put a new roof on our house. Brandon, our son-in-law, cut down two irksome trees (one was dead) and an even more irksome bush. Valerie put those branches in her jeep and drove them to the dump. Emily and David Haralson painted the front of our house while visiting here on vacation. Christopher Nay, a friend of Hillary's, dug out the stump from the bush and planted an apricot tree in our back yard. Hillary scraped old paint off the window sill and started the painting of the accent color, hunter green. I painted the flashing with rust proof paint. Even the full-time missionaries came and help paint the side of our house.
As far as the month of April Bill gained only 2 pounds for all the sitting he did recuperating. Rhonda gained 3 pounds. But she is encouraged by the thought that the same truths about weight loss that led to her losing 50 pounds can be followed with just as good results for another 50 pounds.
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