Here I am with Sunday's News

Sorry I didn't post last evening but I was just so tired. Everything was great Sunday for Mike. Rochelle and Baby Gracie arrived with Angel, Mike's top groom for almost 20 years and his blacksmith. Ya'll are going to kill me. I just can't remember his name right now. Rochelle also had her friends Doris and her husband with her. But things went just like I had thought. Mike was so surprised to see Angel. They both hugged and held each other so tight and cried with such emotion. Mike said Angel and him were brothers. Everyone talked for a while and then his good friend Will and his wife Kelly came in. They had driven from Richmond, Virginia. Will brought Mike a giant bag of peanut M & M's and some very nice slippers with traction on the bottom so every time he gets up his feet won't slide out from under him. All and all everything was good. You could tell Mike was getting very tired though. Later that evening two men from their church came to visit also. At the beginning of the day Mike was excited that he had gone to church that morning with other patient. There is a small chapel there that they attended. He said the sermon was very good. As each day goes by I can tell Mike is getting stronger and stronger. Transferring him from the bed to the wheelchair has become so much more easy. When we arrived at Kernan this afternoon to visit Mike you could tell he was wore out from all his therapies today. Tonight he wheeled himself right up to the sink and washed his face, brushed his teeth and shaved. Yes he shaved himself. He was doing it so fast I said to him did he always shave that fast. You know this is not a race or anything. He said he always had. Before he goes to bed at night he calls Rochelle and tells her good night. So I just had to ask her if he always shaves like that and she said yes also. Now when I was doing it I would go slow and easy. Maybe that's why it appeared so fast to me. Oh and about Mike's son Jesse. He didn't make it to see his dad. Hopefully he will soon. Again, no harm done because Mike didn't know he was going to come. Things will work out when the time is right. So I see Barbaro is also doing very well. I know it is everyone's prayers and well wishes to both of these great champions. I'll be back tomorrow night. Thank everyone again from all across the world and all of Tim Woolley's sites and Barbaro's. God bless everyone.