Connor Update

Received an email from Connor’s family just now:

Good Afternoon from Charlottesville where it is predicted to snow 5 inches tonight!  Today is Saturday and Connor is improving every day. After all the tests and all the physicians, interns, residents ect.. studying Connor concurred, he will be recieving his very own defibrillator on Monday.  This is an insurance policy that he may never need.  He has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.  This condition is similar to the one his mother had but the location is not textbook.  You all know Connor well enough to know he never does anything halfway!    His short term memory is still coming around.  Hopefully with some time to get rid of all the heavy duty medications he has been on this week and a little work he will regain the memory.  He does not remember the day of the event at all.  His friends from JMU are here today regaling him with stories of his accident.  I think this will be good for him and will help with the memory.

Barring any complications we will be home on Wednesday night with Connor in tow.  He has Spring Break coming up so that will give us a few weeks to evaluate and make decisions regarding his return to JMU.  We have had so many angels this week.  Upon arriving in Harrisonburg, JMU had secured a hotel room at their cost,  our son Jerry who works at the Battle House has managed to get the “friends and family” discount at the Marriott here in Charlottesville, 1 block from the hospital.  The prayers are working!  Please keep them up.  We have a long road ahead of us and will need all the prayers to hold us up.

We look forward to being home soon.  Thanks again for your supportive emails, text messages and phone calls.  It’s meant the world to us. Love,  John and Suzette Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!