Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

There is just no way we could possibly thank the almost 1000 people so far that have signed Mike's petition for Extreme Home Makeover. We will always be so very grateful to you all. We all have been extremely busy lately. My Mother went to her home in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She really needed to go home. She is totally exhausted and has been here since the day of Mike's accident on June 16th. As you know my sister Nancy is in South Carolina working and trying to sell houses and still keep up with all Mike's administrative and financial things. So now I am here by myself and taking care of Mike. Of course Mother and Nancy are on the phone with me a lot every day and night. Nancy is still working on a paper petition for people to take to race tracks and every where. Hopefully before the weekend is over Mercy and her will come up with something. But please keep working on getting signatures because I have a surprise for everyone.

Mike will be going to his home next Saturday to stay. Yes that is what I said. We are all very surprised ourselves. No his home can not accommodate him and no a lot of people, nurses, and doctors don't think he is ready but they are going to release him Saturday next week. Sunbridge physical therapy said there is nothing more that they can do for him. Kinda like their saying he has plateaued. He thought he was going home today but the doctor said, "NO!" Thank God. Mikey has been wanting to go home since he could talk in Shock Trauma. When he was in Kernan he would beg us to take him home everyday, several times a day. He continued at Sunbridge also. We all know this is what he wants but just don't think it is the best thing for him right now. I have talked until I was blue in the face and told him he would have a lifetime at home when the time was right. Since the doctor didn't release him he will still gone home for the overnight visit tomorrow but be back Sunday. I really think that he'll go home and they will see and comprehend that Mike didn't just fall off a horse and get hurt, but that he fell off a horse and has a traumatic brain injury which is going to take a lot of time healing. Mikey just asked me again for the hundredth time tonight before I left, "Cathy, why can't I walk still?" I have explained it to him several times, but see he can't remember. Some days he has very bad memory loss. Some days if he is tired or stressed he slurs his words and is so very off balance it scares me. But friends we have done all we can about this. So next week they are going to do what they call restorative therapy. An aide from what I understand will take him on walks with his walker and he has to show them that without physical therapy he is not going to regress. I guess if he regresses bad they might keep him. Who knows!!

So I got him this cool walker that he has to get use to. It's blue and on wheels. It has hand breaks and hand locks to lock it. It also has a seat so he can sit down when he gets tired. He has to use the wheelchair most all the time. The walker is really just for exercise and physical therapy. I really got it for him to use upstairs instead of crawling around on all fours. Plus when he gets out of the shower he will have something to sit on while drying off, brushing his teeth, shaving, ect.. There is no room for the wheelchair upstairs and it is very heavy to carry up the stairs. They (Sunbridge) did say if he finds that it is just not what he thought it was going to be like he could come back. Also if he starts regressing badly, he may go back. We just don't want him to fall and get hurt and end up back in the hospital. So everyone pray he'll be safe at home. Please. I pray for God to wrap his arms around him 24/7.

I think I remember telling ya'll the reason that Nancy wanted to do this petition is because it appears you get better results with being nominated for the Extreme Home Makeover show. She got the 50,000 from there also. We are going to continue to also have fund raisers for Mikey and his family. We know for a fact that he will be unemployed for a year or more. The one good thing is Mike does have an appointment with his neurologist Thursday. I can't wait to see what he has to say about everything. This will be his first visit since he left Kernan. I will keep ya'll informed. I promise.

Well it is time for me to go now. I hope everyone has a great weekend. God bless everyone over and over again. Thank God for Barbaro doing so well also. He really has helped Mike so much and so have the Fans of Barbaro. We will be forever grateful.

WE BELIEVE IN MIRACLES
WE BELIEVE IN BARBARO
WE BELIEVE IN MIKE REA