Update

Sorry again for the length between posts. We visited Butch yesterday. He has been eating small amounts of food and they may be taking his feeding tube out sometime this week. The skin graft is still planned for sometime in the next few weeks--we still don't have a date for that. Butch continues to do physical therapy. They want to work him up to doing it three hours at a time. In order for him to do physical therapy they have to put a brace on him. It is kind of a shell that goes around his torso to support his back. He may need to wear it for 5-6 weeks or longer--but only during physical therapy. It was especially designed for him but he says that it is very painful and is making it difficult to do physical therapy for very long. He has asked that we pray for some kind of out-of-the-box solution that will support his back like he needs but not cause him such pain.