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Justin here again.  Sorry for the sparse # of posts lately.  Christian continues to do well.  He is walking without help now, although he does need someone nearby, just in case he stumbles.  He's actually decided NOT to purchase a wheelchair, but will rent one for the time being.  It's truly a miracle that Chris won't need a wheelchair for much of his moving around, after seeing him in the state he was just a couple months ago.  He can dress himself, but this is a long and difficult process.  He can also feed himself, but don't bring him any soup :-)!  Bottled products like hot sauce can be an issue as well (funny story to share with you later on in the post). 

He's heading home this coming Saturday the 23rd.  It will be nice for him to be back in his own home, sleeping in his own bed, with Jessi.  On the other hand, not having 24 hour care from a hospital nursing staff and multiple therapy sessions each day to keep him constantly busy will definitely be a change.  Jessi plans to take several weeks off from work to help Chris get into a daily routine at home.  There will surely be many unforeseen obstacles to overcome as life continues in a different environment, but Chris will overcome those just like he always does.

He's planning to continue to do some physical therapy at Neuroworx.  Neuroworx (www.neuroworx.org) is an outpatient physical therapy clinic specializing in spinal chord injuries.  They have some of the neatest equipment you'll ever see.  This will be a great place for Chris to continue his recovery, we know he'll continue to work hard each day!

Christian wants to do one more video blog before he leaves the hospital, so we'll try to get that up in the next few days.

Now about the hot sauce incident...  Tuesday morning Spencer, who had spent the 2nd 1/2 of the previous night with Chris, was helping with breakfast.  Spence had picked up a nice omelet from the cafeteria on the 1st floor.  Chris was doing quite well eating on his own.  To satisfy Christian's love for hot stuff, he was putting Cholula Hot Sauce on his eggs.  Spence says there was a big crash and he looked up to see the hot sauce bottle shattered on the floor with sauce all over the place.  Chris had literally thrown it across the room, not on purpose of course.  Basically, while pouring hot sauce on his eggs, Chris had one of his typical morning muscle spasms and the bottle flew out of his hand, across the room and landed on the floor.  No harm done, the mess was quickly cleaned up and breakfast finished.  For those of you dining with Christian in the near future, I recommend you offer to pour his ketchup on his fries for him :-).

Until later!