What a GREAT Day!

My sweet injured husband sent me flowers today! He is injured and yet he is sending me flower. They are beautiful and they are my favorite kind...yellow and white daisies with two yellow roses. He is the best! I am so lucky. Thank you baby for bringing a smile to my face and tears of happiness to my eyes. I MISS YOU TOO!

Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX

Here are some things you can send him if you want. Address is below on previous post!

1) Letters
2) Cards
3) Pictures of Family and Friends
- Sunflower Seeds
- Pretzels/Cheese
- Crackers/Cheese
- HE LOVES CHEESE
- Rock Candy
- Any hard candy
- Candy
- Gum
- Trail Mix
- Any snacky foods
- DVD's
- magazines
- Dean Koontz books are his favorite (if you want to send him one of those u might want to email him and ask him which ones he has read)
-gift cards to walmart

His email is matthews19k@yahoo.com if you want to email him!


I am back home. He is doing okay...got staples taken out of his arm today and he got a new boot that is smaller. He goes back to doctor in two weeks for another appointment. Hopefully he will be home after that for a couple of weeks and then he will go back. We will have to wait and see.

Jason's address

Here is Jason's address for anyone who would like to send him anything!


PFC Jason P. Matthews
3851 Roger Brooke Drive Dept 41
Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234-6200

OUTPATIENT!!!

Jason is officially an outpatient. They changed his dressings on his foot and arm today. I got to see what everything looked like. It was pretty painful for him when they were changing it all, but when they were done they said he could be discharged if he wanted to. Of course he jumped right on that and almost left the hospital without getting the IV taken out of his arm. He has a place to live close to the hospital b/c he has appointments there. It is so nice to spend some time with my husband before I have to leave. I wish I could stay with him. Hopefully they will let him come home very soon!

I will give you all an address for Jason as soon as I get it. He hasn't set up his mailbox yet, but will probably tomorrow!

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers during this time...please keep them coming as he has a long recovery ahead of him.

We love all of you,
Erika and Jason

MONDAY EVENING

Well not much has changed. He had his skin graph done and he has a heat lamp on his leg to dry up the spot they took the skin from. He still has some pain. We watched movies today and tried to take it easy. I have stayed with him the last two nights in the recliner but decided to get a good night sleep in my hotel room tonight. He has an appointment in the morning...early so I will go over when he is done with his appointment.

We hope to no more information by the time he becomes outpatient...which should be by Friday!!!

Haley called and told us she had fun at softball practice tonight. She said she hit the ball and caught the ball. She told us she was the only girl on the team.

My handsome Husband

Well I took two pics of Jason today. They show one injury but trust me you don't want to see his arm. He was hooked up to his sponge and we had to wheel it around with us. We did get to escape from the hospital for a little while today! So we relaxed without doctors, nurses, and a million people coming by to meet him. We watched movies and took it easy! He has his surgery - skin graphs on his arm tomorrow morning and they will check out his leg and toes again. His mom arrived today for the weekend. My room is very nice and the people here are very helpful and kind. It is right across the street and walking distance to the hospital. For now Jason is staying here in San Antonio till we find out more about what the doctor has to say. Hopefully we will know more before I depart!

Oh I almost forgot we were sitting outside this morning and Jason was going through his wallet. The wallet survived and was in his pocket on his left upper arm. He pulled a bunch of cards out of the wallet and they had a burn hole mark on the top of the cards. He looked more closely and a piece of shrapnel had burnt through his wallet and stopped inside the wallet and did not go all the way through. I can't even imagine what would have happened if it went all the way through his wallet. We are reminded everyday how lucky he was! AMAZING...someone up above was looking over him that day!

I AM FINALLY HERE!

I have finally made it to San Antonio to see my husband.
We were so happy to see each other.
We are so thankful to everyone!

He is in good spirits and will have surger on his arm on Saturday.
They did surgery on his toes yesterday!

He is in pain but he is going to be fine!
He will have rehab when he is done with his skin graphs!