Happy Thanksgiving!

Despite Chase’s current status, we feel there’s a lot to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. First and foremost, he’s still with us. That’s a lot more than we were told to expect over 15 months ago. In addition, he’s been extremely stable lately, which is a real relief on the nerves lately. Chase is also showing many more signs of gradual improvement – we’ll take any pace of change at this point, as long as it’s moving in the right direction. Lately he’s been moving more with his trunk, head and limbs – sometimes on command and other times it seems like he’s just stretching and getting ready to wake up. He’s also been coughing a bit and even gagged yesterday (which is a reflex that he completely lost until recently). We’ve also continually been able to find ways of connecting and communicating with Chase (however crude) which always keeps all of our spirits up and I’m sure pleases him as well.

The outcome of our recent debacle with Protective Services was positive (complete vindication) and we’re continuing our pursuit of exposing the situation to bring attention to the need for change. Your support in this regard is extremely helpful – we’ve heard back from Child Protective Services as well as Henry Ford Hospital. However, we feel they’re still ducking the real issue – that the complaint was NOT in the best interest of our children (motivated by personal agendas) and that it was full of misrepresentations and distortions. We’re continuing to seek answers / further investigation and we’ll keep you posted. Keep up the expressions of support – they’re getting noticed (we also know that Chase’s blog is being monitored daily by people other than Prayer Warriors – so be it).

We hope all of Chase’s Prayer Warriors have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Above all, we’re thankful for your faithful support of our family throughout this challenge.

God Bless!

John & Carol
Chase & Barbara Ann