Josh Beecroft Recovery Updates

January 21, 2018 Hi, everyone. It's been another couple of weeks since our last post. We are happy to report that we feel like Josh is still making progress. No, it isn't like a couple of months ago when every day brought surprising improvements. But it is gratifying to see the young man continue to improve. The biggest change we've seen in the last couple of weeks is in the area of initiation. Josh is more likely now than anytime since the accident to initiate discussion. He'll now ask questions and raise issues whereas he really never did that before. He is still far from conversational (even Josh 1.0 was pretty quiet) but we feel like he is making progress. And he STILL struggles with initiating brushing his teeth. If we don't help him, he'll stand at his sink for 30 minutes trying to get his toothbrush into his mouth. Once it's in, he's fine. He still has his challenges, though. One is keeping his pants on! He is so slender (weighing in at 133

January 3, 2018 Happy New Year to all.  2017 was a very difficult year, dominated, as it was, by Josh's injury.  We hope that 2018 will be a much better year, as Josh continues his recovery and life eases back into a more normal routine. The last two weeks were relatively good weeks for Josh.  He enjoyed a nice Christmas at home in Portland with his family, including Eden & RJ and their boys.  Josh's emotions are so flat now that it is difficult to know how he is feeling, but he always seems to enjoy being with people.  This was certainly the case with his sister and her family. For New Years, we drove to Tri-Cities, WA to welcome Josh's cousin, Bradley, home from his mission in Brazil and to spend some fun time with Mary's family.  Again, Josh seemed to enjoy being around his cousins and aunts and uncles, who are all very warm and kind towards him. Most of the medical concerns from our last post have been resolved -- more or less.  There really doesn't