Joe had surgery on Oct 28th to reconstruct his busted up arm/wrist combo. Just yesterday he got his cast off and stitches removed! YEAH! This is the aftermath...
(FYI, that is Lucky in the background running away from the "scary" bionic arm-- he's such a wimp!) They gave him a pretty, flesh-colored brace to keep his little arm safe while it is still healing. I took a short video of him demonstrating how far he can move and manipulate his wrist so far, but stupid Blogger won't let me upload it! But the short of it is: not very much. Certainly can't move it enough yet to play guitar. However, Joe's determined to wiggle and stretch that sucker as hard as he can to get back into playing mode.
Underneath that tape is lots of metal! Permanent fixtures in Joe's new bionic arm. He has several screws and plates intalled while under the knife.
For those of you who would like to help Joe by pitching in to pay for his medical costs and car loan (the insurance isn't covering it and he had a loan out on his car), you can send any contributions to "AUSTIN STONE" (put nothing in the memo line), care of Andy & I. Just shoot me an email (a t x a n n a @ g m a i l DOT c o m) and I will send you our address. We will be collecting funds to help him cover his costs and will turn them in to the church in one big pot. So far, we're looking at around $15,000 (ouch!!!!). 
1 comment:
thanks for the update...praying for the bionic mistral and praying he gets 15k by the end of 2008! Or sooner.
anne
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