Tyler had his battery replaced on Friday. The surgery did not take long although the day was long between getting him in and letting him go home. The surgery went well but Tyler has some pain in the healing process from them cutting into his muscles and chest. The battery that was relplaced is the one that controls his good side of the body(right) and was in his left pectoral. Tyler's bad arm is on that side and has been pulling upwards lately which puts more stress on the incision area. He continues to be a real trooper though and went back to school today.

Samantha has not seen a lot of benefit from the surgery yet but seems to have a little more stability and is able to sit up and pull herself up more now. She looks very cute with short hair because I can see her face now but he hair continues to grow out.

Every day I worry about Luke and watch to see if his arm shakes when shooting a basketball or if he is abnormally clumsy but I can't tell anything for sure yet. He is very energetic and has now graduated into kindergarten for next school year.

The "Thundering for Tyler's Hope" motorcycle event on Arpil 17th was a great success and raised $1750 but also created a lot of awareness. I had several people call and ask about dystonia and Tyler's Hope that had driven by the event and saw the banners. There were well over 100 bikers and even more attndees of the event. Next years ride will prove to be even bigger as the word gets out.

The Gainesville Jaycees gave Tyler's Hope $8,000 for the work we did at the Gator Nationals Camprounds this year and presented the check to us on Wednesday of last week.

We have four new interns starting on the 29th of April.