Chase Update

First and for most I just want to thank everyone for all you have done for us the past week. I can't tell you how much it means to me that so many people are willing to help in our time of need. We have so many wonderful family members, friends, and neighbors. It is just amazing!! I especially want to thank KC Dalley and his friend Wallace for being with Chase when this happened. If it wasn't for them Chase might not be here today. Chase has just been going on and on about how great of friends they are to him. "It takes a real friend to give you the shirt off his back when you are bleeding."

Chase is doing better than we all could have imagined (including the dr's). He is almost completely back to normal (or as normal as Chase can be with a horse shoe stamp on the side of his head). He's still a little slower with movements and a little stiff, but he is coming around. He will be off work for at least 4 weeks and then we will go back to meet with surgeon. They may release him to work for a couple weeks and then we will go back in two more weeks and have a plate put in his head. He will be in the hospital overnight and then probably off another couple weeks I would imagine. Everything is looking good right now. It is healing well and the swelling is only minimal at this point. Hopefully he can just take it easy at the house until then so he doesn't cause any damage to himself.

Here are some more pictures. The first is of how well his head is healing. The left section still has staples in it, but it they are covered with blood and scabs. I know it's gross. Sorry. The second pic is Chase trying to get Hagen to help him escape from the hospital. Hagen was all for helping Dad be a fugitive.