12/12/2025
12/11 7:00 pm Pax Update
If y’all are anything like me, you are running around getting last minute Christmas done for those people who say “don’t get me anything” but you have to get them something because they are your son-in-laws😳😳😳.
Anyway, it’s 14 days until Christmas🎄 and it’s week 40 since the accident!
We spent Monday night at the Ronald McDonald House for Paxton’s early Tuesday appointment with his neurophysiatrist, Dr. Enoch.
It was very surreal walking back into the RMH after being gone for five months. It felt both like coming home to family and like walking back into a nightmare of hard days! It was weird and I wasn’t really prepared for the feelings it evoked inside of me. Pax got me out of my “feels” because he was so excited to be there! Of course he made us troop up and down the stairs, visit the game room, art room, play games and the most fun was the Christmas Room! A middle school had adopted the RMH and they had more children’s gifts than Target. All ages and both boy and girl fun things! The coolest part was each child was able to pick out five gifts to give to their family. Such kind people out there!
Well on to the long awaited appointment! Dr. Enoch was so happy to see us and he could not get over how well Paxton was doing!
We have noticed over time the lefty tremor waxes and wains. If he gets a good workout with his left hand/arm it seems to be somewhat calmer. Other times not so much. After Dr. Enoch thoroughly evaluated Pax it was decided to give him a 3 month drug holiday from his tremor medicine. Kind of a reset to see exactly how lefty responds with no medicine. He also suggested something called CIMT which is Constraint-induced Movement Therapy….basically tying down righty and forcing him to use lefty which will help it to gain strength and work his brain and arm/hand in sync. While we can’t really do this during his school day we will be giving it a good try on the weekends😬
And then came the topic of basketball……….Dr. Enoch won’t officially clear him to play a contact sport right now. While he can’t play, he will be on Pepere and Uncle Nick’s team with Spencer and he can practice drills with the team and maybe just maybe he can get a minute of play😉. We have the best coaches around who have said they will step back their teams and give Pax the court whenever! So we will see! If he can’t play, he will be the best cheerleader for his team!
Dr. Enoch will be repeating Pax’s MRI when we return in March. It will all be about the time that Baseball season starts and we pray he will be cleared to play! All in all, it was a good visit and an encouragement to us to keep plugging away and moving forward. I asked Dr. Enoch about the “one year” and would healing still take place as time goes on and he said ABSOLUTELY! That healing will continue to happen for several years! This right here gave me so much hope! Because with God still perfecting his masterpiece it may take more than that first year and that’s okay with me!
After we finished with Dr. Enoch on the 6th floor, we went down to the 4th floor and visited with Dr. Lee our Cognitive Therapy Remediation Neuropsychologist! We had only met her over zoom so it was so nice to meet in person! She took Pax to her department and introduced him all around. It was preplanned so as to give him an opportunity to initiate and conversate with others. Dr. Lee gave him an A+!
We headed back to Scottish Rite to visit our 3rd floor CIRU family and also went across the street to visit Day Rehab! It was another one of those surreal moments that welled up in my chest with so much emotion! Once up on 3rd floor we walked down to Pax’s room….356. It was empty. Last time we were there it was occupied by a young girl and we took a moment and prayed over her and her recovery! This day we prayed over the next child who would be living there with expectations of recovery. Miss Royal (our favorite housekeeper, she’s in one of the pics) tells everyone that has stayed in that room since Pax that prayer lives there because of all of you prayer warriors! While there we saw most of our favorites, Sargeant Mel, Jonathan, Shanni, sweet Dr. Vova who we give all the credit right beside God for bringing Paxton back to us! He was there day 1 and things happened! They were all so happy to see Pax that they made him race up and down the hall just to see him run, they are so proud of how well he’s doing. We missed our sweet Sarah and sweet Amber, aka Ruthie and Sydney and Christine who Pepere gives a hard time to about her IV’s! Next time ladies we hope to see you! The Zone was up next and Pax remembered playing endless basketball there. He had to shoot a few for old times sake! We even ate lunch in the hospital cafeteria with our favorite lunch lady Miss Lydia. I discovered they had really good Sushi for lunch back when Pax was inpatient! Had it for lunch and it was de-licious! Our Day Rehab visit did not disappoint! Everyone was so happy to see Paxton. We loved seeing one of our favorite nurses, Jenny and Dr. Schoeffner who took such good care of Pax! You will see a picture of a note about Pax hanging on a cabinet door in the secretary’s office. She’s had that note hanging up since we were there in May! The best people!
All in all, it was a good day spent with so many people who love Pax and had a big hand in getting him to where he is! We still have work to do and healing to happen and we are confident that God is still working. We see evidence every day! Way back at the beginning of this journey some of you may remember I told you that in my pleadings and begging for our boy I heard God speak clearly to my soul and said “watch me”. I remind myself daily to keep my eyes on Jesus and “watch” his handiwork!
Thank you all for the continued prayers for Paxton and Abigail! When Paxton heals, Abigail heals! We all heal!
Please pray with us:
For the MRI in March! Pray it shows miraculous healing in Paxton’s brain.
That the drug holiday will show that Paxton may not need any medication and that lefty improves.
“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever” Psalm 107:1
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