Learning patience as he heals

Sleeping Beauty :)

As time trickles by here in Dallas, we are receiving heavy doses of patience lessons; especially for Aric. Patience is so not his best virtue:) He soo desperately wants his ear to be healed so he can go back home. I too can't wait for the day but yet as an adult I understand these things take time. Even in the 6 days since surgery his healing has progressed significantly. Dallas drivers in itself are teaching me patience..I am seriously beginning to believe they got their license from a Cracker Jack  Box. Three times in less than an hour I had two people pull out from driveways right in front of me and then a person who decided they were not gonna wait for me to finish backing up from my parking space before they did; despite the many honks from my horn let alone other peeps horns. Even if they had a hearing loss and couldn't hear the horn, they sure could see the significance in size from big F150 to lil Mazda car. Idk maybe the big silver wall looked like the sky to them :) so instead of cursing them like I really wanted too, I just prayed they would get home safe and stay off the road until their eyesight was better :) 

Close up of back w/ bolster still attached

Close up of front, these were taken Sunday 

Sunday, Aric received a very special visit from John, a friend we made here in Dallas who is originally from Corpus Christi. Several of the people from John's office gave Aric a wonderful basket from "Santa" filled with lots of wonderful goodies :) Aric was soo excited to see John, they made such a great connection during our last stay at RMHD. Aric's fave part of his visit was playing football a little bit. You never know where God is going to provide earthly angels to walk in to your life and a John and his co-workers are truly a blessing! 

John & Aric with the Santa basket and Get a Well card

Reading the card together, some of the messages were in Spanish, so as Aric read them, John translated :)

 Aric pretending he is Aaron Rogers :)

As we know, time does bring healing and today the bolster was removed and possibly next Tues the stitches will come out, Yay! 

One of the office girls cleaning off his ear

 No more bolster :)

Just some bruising and dried blood along with swelling but after 6 days his ear is doing great :)