Journal entry by Andrea Schwai —
Dad continues to do well. He’s working on healing, learning to love doing puzzles and helping my brother and my Uncle Tom at their shops as he tolerates. He’s walking more and getting around better. He’s even been able to drive a couple times. But definitely needs more practice and confidence. A month or so again his wound was looking a little different so they did a different type of treatment to help with possible infection and started antibiotics but other than that it’s healing well. He also had another vein study. Things are looking pretty good. He won’t need anything done for a few years they think. He also had his heart check up and things are looking great with his heart.
So the big thing to report is my dad was able to crush his first big goal (besides keeping the foot) which was to walk me down the isle. It was a longer walk because of the location of the wedding and he did amazing. He was so happy! He was even able to dance with me for the father daughter song. We quit a tad early but he did great and he was so happy. He said he never thought that he would be able to do that.
Thanks for keeping him in your thoughts/prayers/positive thoughts.
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