November 10, 2006

Last night I was able to help Jesse with a shower. It was the first real bath he has had since the accident. He really felt better afterwards to be actually clean, not like when he would have sponge baths earlier. From my perspective I flashed back to the very first time I helped Jesse with a shower. It was in La Ceiba Honduras. We had left the remote base of Ahuas where we lived to come out to the city for a weekend get-away and the hotel didn't have bath tubs...only showers. That was eighteen years ago. I never thought I'd be helping Jesse like this again, but I am so very grateful for the opportunity to do so.

Idaho Elks Jesse in the Rehab Hospital plane on

at night way up to
Boise

Jesse's mom and

sister Hannah
when he first

arrives at

Idaho Elks

Jesse's first

excursion

with us in a

wheel chair