Hello everyone.
It has been 1 year and 3 months since Tylers accident, it has been one year since he came home to the hospital, and decided to wake up and talk. Oh boy the blessings have flown since that day.. He is having a great year in the 8th grade with all of his buddies. He has had a few surgeries on his eyes. One to help his eyelids open better. The other is to bring his eyes to center. He had the one worked on oh about a month or so ago and he gets the other eye worked on tomorrow. This will allow him to use both eyes at one time with some assistance with some special glasses so he does no see double. So I know it has been a long time since an update but he still is relying on God for his ongoing healing, and all the prayers are still being answered everyday.. Take care God Bless

January 20,

Tyler has been very busy the past few weeks. A week ago this past Sunday he got on Premie ( his sister's horse) and road for 45 minutes, and worked on some exercises. He also started school this past week. His favorite part of school was being back with his friends and lunch. It went very well he only ditched his Grandpa once. The teachers found this quite amusing. He went to see to have his hearing tested in Lima today and his hearing is perfect. He also went to Toledo to see his Neuro Opthamologist and his vision is improving. We have some pictures on the horse and of his first day of school. We will try to get them on the blog soon. Thank you to everyone for your prayers and support.

Jan 8

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and are having
a great start to the New Year. It has been 6 months since Tyler's accident. He has made such miraculous progress. Tyler had a great Christmas and New Year. He has worked so hard that he is going to go BACK TO SCHOOL ON MONDAY!!! His first day of 7th grade!! Yeah. He is both excited and nervous. He has been working with his walking with his walker more and more. Now remember that he can hear fine, but he can only see out of part of his right eye. So if it is noisy in the halls and you want to talk to him just remember to stand to his right so he can also see that you are talking to him. If he is talking to you and you have trouble understanding him please ask him to slow down and repeat it. He talks well just sometimes he gets in a hurry and is hard to understand. This is a HUGE step in his recovery process and everyones help and understanding at school is important to him, especially in the social aspect of getting back into a routine with his friends. Thanks You So much to all of the local high schools who have continued to support Tyler and his family, with your wonderful, and generous financial gifts, and especially ongoing prayers. He has come a LONG way and we expect and push him daily so he can continue to move forward in his MIRACLULOUS recovery. Thank you and GOD BLESS everyone in this coming year.

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Dec 7th
Tyler has had a very busy month. He has continued to work each day in therapy. The above link are some pictures Amanda took while visiting with Ty this past month. He also continues to work on school work in the evenings. He had a good time at Thanksgiving and got to eat all of his favorites. He also enjoyed taking everyone's cell phones who were texting (Thanks Father Mike) for your sermon on texting during family time!! He got to play games with his cousins. He also had a special photoshoot with Parkview Hospital. The Samaratin is publishing a special anniversary calendar with the patients they have flown and who have done well. Tyler is one of the patients chosen to be in the calendar. They took some pictures of him and Kara with a tractor and some pictures with his Ohio State stuff. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. He also has been going to wrestling with his dad and even giving his opinion at times. Anyone who has been around him knows when he starts talking he is going to let you know what he is thinking!!!! Thank you for everyone's ongoing support and prayers.

Day 117..... It has been 4 months , and home for a little over a month, Ty continues to amaze physicians, family, and friends. His therapy continues to progress well. He is walking on the treadmill for three minutes at a time. He is working on throwing a ball over his head. He continues to work on his speech. In the evenings Mr Strickler comes and works with his school work. They are working hard on spelling, vocabulary, science, health, and writing. All of which he continues to show improvement everyweek. All of the therapists and Mr Strickler are doing an awesome job with Ty.!!!! THANKS!!!! In the eve he works on walking some in the house; transferring himself from his chair to the couch, going up and down the steps. He can get in and out of vehicles on his own. He also likes to start his mom's Yukon while he is waiting on her. We have aslo determined this evening that he is better at juggling than his mom but has to have a little more practice in order to be better than Seth. Also when Erica picks on him too much he is very capable of jumping straight up out of his wheel chair (on his own) and getting her in a bear hug!!! Quite amazing actually and Erica was Very Surprised!!!
The trauma surgeon gave an educational talk at Van Wert last evening to the paramedics, and Tyler was the case study. Also his Dr. from Toledo came and talked about his rehab. He was able to meet with both Dr.'s and the nurses for ICU nurses from Parkview came to see him too. He has been able to meet the people on the squad and lifeflight, and talk with them. This week when he was up in Toledo for his Dr. appointment, he was able to go visit the girls from his rehab and talk with them and give them a hard time. He really enjoyed that.
Tyler is doing wonderful, and it has a little bit to do with modern medicine, but it has everything to do with prayers and God healing him. Thanks for the support and prayers that continue to go up for Ty even after he is home.

Day 107..... Tyler is having a good week. He was interviewed by Wayne TV today. The Trauma Surgeon who took care of Tyler at Parkview was giving an educational talk on Farming Accidents, and they asked Kara if they could interview Tyler. He did very well. He has a goal to show his calf at the fair next year and they want us to contact them so they can come over and do a follow up story on him. He continues to work hard on his therapy. He is anxiously awaiting friends to come and visit him. There are a lot of sisters in his house he could use some buddy's to come and hang out with; and tell him everything that is going on at school. Thanks as always for the support and prayers.

Day 103.... Tyler has been doing very well with his therapy this past week. He is walking further with his walker, before his body gets tired. He is talking more and more. This week he showed us how he can move his eyes, side to side and up and down. This is very exciting, because this means the nerve that the Doctors felt was permantly damaged and is getting signals through. This is great stuff. He works hard during the day at therapy and then rests up and has tutoring in the eve, he also works on excercises at night too. Thanks too everyone who participated in collecting pop tabs. This is such a wonderful gesture to help other families in need, to be close to their loved ones who are in the hospita. Thank you for the encouraging words, thoughts and prayers.