Seth-n-Jode's Adventures

Seth has progressed from 60 degrees bend in his right leg to 132 degrees in about 1 1/2 weeks!   His goal is to touch his bum with his heel and we are getting closer by the day!

He's now transferring easily by himself from bed to wheel chair to commode to shower chair.  I think soon, he'll be hanging off his trapeze with his right leg!  He's such a monkey.  Its amazing to see how he navigates.  When he starts walking next week with his right leg, watch out!

We go have lunch and/or dinner in the cafeteria everyday.

We do the Routine every single day.

We are so ready to go to Craig and all of Seth's doctors say he should go to Craig but unfortunately how the playing field works is its not up to the doctors but rather a for profit insurance company who decides our short term destiny.  Which they haven't decided yet.  We are supposed to move to Craig on Monday and Craig has absolutely confirmed that they have a space for Seth.  But now the case is being reviewed by yet another medical director, who has never laid eyes on Seth, with Blue Cross.  They say we will know by tomorrow morning.  Our social worker says that if they deny, Kindred will help to appeal the decision at this point.  Its maddening.  If you want to stay sane, I highly recommend staying out of this game.  Enough about that.

So we have a new goal that I'm really excited about.  Our friend, Lori, organizes a 10th Mountain hut trip every year at Thanksgiving.  The 10th Mountain Huts are sprinkled throughout Colorado.  They are these beautiful log cabins that house up to 16 folks.  They are invariably located with some breathtaking vista that you can barely tear your eyes from.   We've gone on these trips nearly every year for the past 8 years.  So I get the email a couple of days ago from Lori inviting us to the hut trip.  I take a good look at the topographic map and elevation gain.  We've been to this hut before.  Its only five miles and 1,600 feet of elevation gain. And its not that steep.  I figure if we can get Seth on snow shoes and spread his backpack weight across all the other trip members (ask Greg and Marse about this since Seth seems to have a knack for getting others to carry his pack!) and we go really slow and take lots of rests, we might be able to make a go of it.   We'll decide for sure in mid September as that is when Seth will be really up and walking but I think its a doable do as does Seth!

Today's picture is Seth and Lori on top of Coalbank Pass.  Snowshoes at the ready for our hut trip this November!