Update on Rick

I got to spend the day with Rick and Kendra. He is looking so much better. He is still horribly swollen, but what an improvement!!! He has a little fever which the nurses told Kendra that is OK.
Steve spent the evening with Kendra and Rick last night and Steve (being Steve) was joking around with Rick and suddenly Rick squeezed Steve's hand. When he is laying there, breathing tube coming out of his mouth, eyes are closed and a protective gel pad is over them to help reduce the swelling, you wonder if he hears anything. Well today I got to witness it!! I was holding his hand talking to him and telling him how gorgeous he looked, that the gown was a pretty color against his skin (I guess I should say real quick, that our relationship with the Cox's has never been one without joking, so it is only right for us to talk with him as we normally are) and suddenly he began moving around and turned his face a little more towards me and made a wincing a little and settled back down. Kendra says she has received several squeezes from him lately. I am not sure if he can really hear us, if these little instances are just coincidental, but I like to look at it as little whispers from God assuring us that Rick is still inside there.
He was going to have surgery tomorrow morning, but this afternoon they decided to move it back to Monday at 3 due to the amount of swelling in his face.

The responding officer from the Lewisville Police Department called Kendra today with some updates about the accident. According to their measurements (and I'm assuming witness accounts), Rick was rounding the corner Valley Ridge when the wheel of his motorcycle hit a curb. Rick lost control of the bike and was thrown 130 to 150 feet. Rick's fall was broken by two pine saplings and their metal stakes, and from there, he tumbled to the ground, landing in the grassy median.
When he spoke to Kendra, the officer expressed amazement that Rick was still alive. He relayed that he and the other officers from the Lewisville Police Department, the officers from the Flower Mound Police Department, and the Care Flight crew all thought he would die from the injuries he sustained. He also said that because of the force with which he was flying through the air, Rick would have certainly died by landing on the concrete instead of in the trees. Moreover, he said if the pine trees would have been just a little older, they wouldn't have had as much give, leaving Rick with more broken bones or killing him.
Thank you all for the prayers. A friend of Kendra's has set up a Caring Bridge website where you can go and check on Rick's progress, sign the guestbook with your thoughts and prayers. There is also a CT Scan taken Wednesday night that allows you to see the amount of damage done on the inside.

www.caringbridge.org/visit/rickcox