Hi everyone, Mike here with another pulse throbbing update (boy, there is another hard to keep promise made, reminds me of the time I promised DeeAnn no more dancing girls in the house when she leaves for a trip)!

I was looking at the Picture of me taken at Shirley Ryan ability lab four years ago. I had just gotten off the ventilator and food tubes, needed a harness to carry a vast majority of my weight on the treadmill, had my blood pressure monitored continuously in case I passed out during exercise, needed two people to move my legs while walking, used a Hoyer lift to get in and out of bed, barely could move my arms and hands, needed someone to feed me, and definitely needed a shave and haircut.

Look at me now (praise the Lord)! Able to go outside and enjoy a solar eclipse while at occupational therapy. Use a computer to download an eclipse photograph taken by daughter, Hannah, who with Drew was visiting Zach and family in Fort Worth, Texas where they could enjoy the full totality of the eclipse. Show off the tall, multi- layered Tower I had built using Jenga pieces to my admiring and beautiful wife. See all the fruit of the hard work my trainers put me through strengthening my arms so that I could actually support my bodyweight on my own on all fours for the first time. This is a huge threshold to cross on my journey to be able to get up off the ground by myself. 

Stay tuned, much more to come! Look how far your cheerleading, Love and prayers have brought me. Without God and you I would still be functioning as I was in the first picture four years ago. That was significant progress from where I originally started back then!

I did something dangerous the other day, I downloaded an app that allowed me to create movies easily. So I took a mishmash of photos and video clips from the past three months or so highlighting all the various activities and things I am doing now that were just dreams when that first picture on this update was taken. Enjoy it… it runs about 3 1/2 minutes and shows the vast variety of workouts and activities that I currently do that will help me walk soon in public, get off the ground by myself, use left and right hands and arms to do good deeds and generally enjoy life. I can't wait to see what I will be doing in six months… maybe even driving a car somehow.

Today I celebrate you and sharing my adventure with you. May God's abundance and peace be with all of you.  It's going to be a wild ride!