I'm the Brains of this Operation

From Greg:

It has now been 36 days since the craziness began and 31 since my surgery. I am still in Utah with my family and we'll be here for about another week. It has been very helpful to be with family while getting back to normal. At the same we are excited to get back to Kirksville to keep moving on with school and our lives there

I feel just as normal as I ever have, except my energy is still trying to come back. I'm up to about 10 minutes on a basketball court now, so I'm making progress! The only lingering thing is the numbness in my lower lip. As long as I am not too tired, it's fine, but when I get tired it becomes more noticeable. By noticeable I mean my s's slur a bit and food tries too make an escape when I eat. I get a kick out of it.

The real reason I am blogging now is to make an attempt at thanking. I'm no poet so this will not be what I would like it to be.

Thank you to those who helped me out while I was in the ER. The nurses (and nursing student), doctors, rad-tech, and EMT's were all really awesome. In a pretty scary moment for me, they were not just professional, but compassionate and comforting. Thanks to my hometeachers, bishop and those others who tried to get in to check on me, your efforts and service then are still helping us. Thanks to all those who made it possible for Angel to get to me since I had the car and the boys were in bed. Thanks to those who watched our boys that night, the next morning and brought them to us in Columbia the next day.

Thank you to the amazing doctors, residents, techs and nurses in Columbia. I am sure we could not have had better treatment or competent care. I gained a new hero there, a resident that epitomizes the type of doctor I want to be.

Thank you to the many people that undertook to 90+ mile trip to come down from KVille to check up on my family and me. There have got to be studies out there that prove visitors make patients heal faster.
Thank you to the ATSU-KCOM representatives that also came down after my surgery (we're talking hours, not days too) to offer their support.
Thank you to those who so generously donated to us, and those who arranged for that to be possible. I was and still am completely overwhelmed by the kindness of friends, family classmates, and complete strangers. When you watch the news you're convinced the world is going to end soon, but my family and I have seen a little bit of how much good is all around us.
Very importantly, thank you to all those who supported my wife, kids and relatives during the last few weeks. My mind was pretty calm knowing that my family was taken care of when I could be there.
I am sorry I have had to speak in generalities, but there have been so many people that fit every category.

But more specifically and importantly, Thank You to Angel. There is now way I would have made it through without her, my best caretaker.

-Greg