Tuesday 11/24
2009 November 24
Sitting up in the PT chair.
Finally gets to shave off that funky beard.
Gabe’s chest tube is coming out this morning, which is the last major hole left with stuff coming out of it. There is still a feeding tube in at the moment which hasn’t been in use for a few days now but we think that one is coming out today too. His pain clicker was revoked (poor guy,) so now he actually has to ask a nurse for more meds if he needs them. The plan at the moment is for Gabe to be transported to the rehab center sometime tomorrow where he will finally get to see Ezra!
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Glad to see you sitting up. Keep up the hard work, Gabe!!!!The Lord is with you. Prayers still coming your way.
Cousin colleen
Gabe,
You look great, tube freedom at last. Keep up the good work!
Connie
Seeing Ezra is certainly something to be thankful for on Thursday.
Lookin’ Good!!! I am sure you are excited to see that baby boy! Give him lots of hugs and kisses when you see him! Im sure it will make a GREAT Thanksgiving. We think of you daily…
You do look great, although I was warming up to the weird beard! Fantastic news that you are moving to rehab and get to reunite with Ezra. Thinking of you all every day!
Gabe – Great to see you up and to hear about the reunion with Ezra! We check in every day to get an update, so a special thanks to your family for the awesome job of using this site to communicate w/ your extended family & friends! Jen and I send you all our love. Hope to see you very soon!
Gabe, I’m glad to see that things are moving in the right direction, and to see a smile on your face. I check this website at least once a day for updates, and sometimes just so I can have your picture on my computer screen, keeping me company, and keeping you in my mind. Thanks to Pete and whoever else is involved for maintaining this site. I’m sure I’m not the only one who wishes they could be there in person to help out.
Hello Gabe and family,
You have a lovely wife and beautiful baby. I was so sorry to learn of the tragic crime that happened to you a few weeks ago. My friend and I were having lunch when she mentioned this wonderful market where you worked and then your story. I hope you improve quickly, get back to work at that market and live a long happy life with your family and friends.
Sue
Glad to hear that your reunion with Ezra is right around the corner! I find myself on this website daily to see if there are any updates. I’m not so sure about the shaving however, my 5yr old son Avery has taken to calling you the “scruffy guy on the computer”!!!
Keep it up…I’ll be back tomorrow!!
Stephanie
Tampa, FL
Gabe! Good luck with the move to the rehab center. I hope you have a great time with the visitors you will undoubtedly be getting over the holiday weekend. Happy Thanksgiving
GO FOR IT GABE! Although being a “bearded-one, we will have to talk about “beard removal” in terms of its impact on the machinations of retaining the scent during the arduous non-automated task of wine-tasti…(.WHA’ DA HECK IS E TAWKIN’ ABOUD?!)
Gabe, Brooke, Ezra Moses(way-cool name!), Luke, Jason, Pete, David, Nancy, and the rest of your multitudinously bodacious family and friends, you are blessed bigtime, I can see. But know that I and my Connie are in this for the “long-haul”. Your Mom and Dad are good people, I and Connie are lucky to spend time with them.
The Dude above is not done with you! WE ARE WITH YOU!
-Connie’s Huzbun/Frank/”The Hugger”/ad nauseum…
Gabe and family-
It is so good to see you up (but actually we look on the site and we like the beard, along with the grey stripe). We hope the time at the rehab is slight and that your Thanksgiving brings you time with your (whole) family.
Take care, our thoughts are with you and yours.
Gabe,
wonderful to see you improving and finally disconnecting from BORG. Way to go. Wishing you and your family and great Thanksgiving. Patty and I are hoping that you will make giant improvements once you are in rehab.
Gabe,
I’m so happy you get to see Ezra soon! You are doing an awesome job getting healed up. It must be a relief to be getting all those tubes out. We are thinking of you this Thanksgiving, so grateful to have you and your family in our lives.
All our love,
the Fese family
Wow! Looking good! So glad to see your progress and thrilled to know you will be out of the hospital soon! I know you can’t wait to be with Ezra and the whole family…I can’t wait to see the pictures of your reunion (I’m teary already!).
Keep working hard!
Cheryl
Looking good Gabe. So happy you will finally get to see Ezra. We think of you and the family everyday….WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!
You get to see Ezra!! Wow, that’s wonderful news. Glad to see you sitting up, Gabe. Also good news about getting the tubes removed. I’m so thankful that you are doing so well. I think about you every day…many times a day, actually. Donelle xoxo
Aloha Gabe,
I am thankful that each day seems to be a solid step forward for you. Your spirit amazes me. I look forward to seeing pictures of you with Ezra. I think he looks like his aunt Nancy must have looked as a baby.- Maybe it is the short hair.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your family.
Sharon McElroy
What a Happy Thanksgiving it will be for you and your family! I know they will work you really, really hard, but at least there is light at the end of the tunnel now. Hooks Rehab is known as the best around and they really perform miracles there.
We’ll all hold you up in our thoughts here at Freedom Mortgage.