Surgery is DONE!!! Yeah God! Tim's lower back was pretty damaged and they ended up having to fuse the entire lower back. Not what we had hoped for. Dr. Oulette said that without the surgery all four lower vertebrae would not have stayed in line. We were very blessed that none of them had shifted since the accident. Total God thing! The surgery did go well. Tim lost a fair amount of blood because the bone was very vascular trying to heal itself. Tim had to receive 2 units of blood during surgery. He is resting quietly.  Dr. Oulette said that "Tim will not like me for a few days!" They expect a fair amount of pain. Dr. Oulette said that Dr. Fassier (the arm and leg surgeon) will be in town at the end of the week. Yeah God! He is very concerned about Tim's arm. It was very hard to even just position Tim for the surgery. Thank you for your prayers! I was never much of a runner and I feeling like we are on our 3 or 4 lap of a marathon :) "You will run and not go weary!" God has got us!!!!

Sunday morning :) Tim and I got to sit back (after blood draws, urine samples, medications....) and watch our Haven family's worship service. Thank you Christopher Williams! Your song for Tim is so precious to us!! We are waiting for the fun of tonight :) Special shower/scrub and an enema :S Kevin should be up by us tonight. The resident said that surgery should start tomorrow at 8ish (putting in special lines to monitor, arterial lines...) and that the actual procedure will start around 9. They are planning on at least four hours and then a couple hours in recovery room to closely monitor Tim. Please pray for positioning during the surgery. With so many limbs broke and Tim's upper back they are worried that laying Tim on his stomach for 4 plus hours might aggravate some of his current fractures. We are being led and held by our Lord and Savior!!! I will try and post something tomorrow as soon as I can. Peace to all!!

Saturday morning. It is a quieter morning :) Tim had a better night sleep! Yeah God! We really made sure the pain medication were spaced well and given throughout the night. Still have not heard anything in regards to Dr. Fassier's return time. We are leaving that in God's hands. He is our guy if there is anyone that can fix Tim's arm and legs. Thanks to everyone that helped make Allison's senior banquet special. It was hard missing it (just ask Tim, I was a little crabby last night). So fun to see all the pics on facebook. Pray for safe travels for Kevin. He will be heading up here tomorrow. It is a long drive! Pray for Allison as she tries to enjoy her last few weeks at Holland Christian. Pray for Erika as she finishes her last weeks in Honduras. Pray for Chris that he is safe with all his travels for work. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!!!

YEAH GOD!!!!! They fixed the wireless Internet! These people up here love Tim!! He is pretty much stuck in the room with a lot of pain and the Internet is his only escape. They worked on it this morning :) We are up!
To bring you up to date. We got cleared for an air ambulance from the auto insurance Wed. afternoon. They called about 3:00 and said we were leaving in a couple of hours!!! I quickly packed (we were only allowed on small suitcase), tried to tie up some loose ends, and off we went. We had an ambulance ride to Ford International Airport and then boarded a small Lear jet. Tim stayed on a stretcher the whole time. The flight was fast! We were in the air about 90 minutes! We got transferred to another ambulance at the airport in Montreal for a 30 minutes ride to the hospital. The staff here greeted us with smiles and tears. They all feel terrible that Tim had this accident.
It has been a very busy couple of days at the hospital. We saw Dr. Ouelett, the back surgeon, yesterday. We had to have some more xrays (I swear Tim should be glowing by now!). The plan is surgery first thing Monday morning. They are going to try and maybe do some hardware to stabilize the lower back. Something that can be removed in a year and save some of Tim's mobility. If when they get in there and there is too much damage they might have to fuse the lower vertebrae to the pelvis. We asked how long the surgery would take and Dr. Ouelett said, "It will be done when I am finished." He is an awesome guy that had tears in his eyes when he talked to Tim.
Prayer requests: Dr. Ouelett warned that Tim would be very sore after the surgery. Please pray that the pain would be minimal and easy to control.
Please pray that the surgery to save some of Tim's mobility will be possible.
Dr. Fassier ,the doctor that does Tim's limbs, got called to Europe on a family emergency the day we arrived. Please pray for his family. Please pray that he could be able to come home soon and assess Tim and Tim's legs and arm.
God is taking care of us :) One of the nurses we have know for years was here to admit us Wed. night. Her comment was priceless, "If the accident was March 29, what took you so long to get up to us so we could help!!!" We have had everyone from nurses, to chefs, to cleaning staff, to pt, ot, secretaries all come by and say a tearful "hi." They all feel terrible about the accident. They are all bending over backwards to make Tim comfortable as possible. Thank you for the prayers!

Absolutely YEAH GOD!!!! We got approval for the air ambulance to Montreal! What a roller coaster! We went from try to come up with PLAN B: bed in the back of the Yukon for a 700 mile trip (Kev and I were working that one out in the middle of the night when we could not sleep) to now they are calling and asking if we call fly out yet tonight!!! I might have to pack fast!! Crazy! The next post will most likely be from Montreal. Pray for safety. Pray that the hospital will have all the orders needed to continue Tim's pain medication as soon as we get there. Pray that Tim will be able to tolerate all the transferring needed and that no further damage will be done to his back or the limbs with all the moving. Bonjour and Merci Beaucoup :) God goes before us!!!

Last day of work for awhile. Hard to walk out the doors not knowing when I will be able to come back. We are still waiting to hear about the flight to Montreal. We are getting down to the wire. Please keep praying! Tim is anxious to get going up to Montreal. He is ready to start fixing some of the bones, hardware, and his back. The Lord has it all in His hands! Let go and let God!

I got home from work to find Tim laughing with his friends and his grandma! Life is good. After supper I helped Tim shower in the garage. When he would get a little out of line I just shot the spray right at his face :) "I can take you mom with one arm in a cast and the other tied behind my back!" Thank the Lord for giving us a warped sense of humor!! You have to make lemonaide out of lemons :) We are still waiting on news for our flight on Thursday morning. I am praying that I can give that detail to God and just not worry about it. They are working on it. Thank you for the sweet notes! Thank you for the sweet texts!! Just when I want to scream God sends one of you to cheer us on! Just a FYI, Christopher Williams will be at Haven CRC 6 pm Sunday night. He was the artist that sang at the concert before we left for Tim's back surgery. After that concert Chris wrote a beautiful song about Tim. Wish we could be there :)

Kevin and I went for our normal early Sunday morning walk before church this morning. Kevin said, "Well, this will be the last time we can do this for quite awhile." So true. God will have some new chapters written in the Bosch Family's story these coming weeks. Tim's night was a bit rough. Tim is looking forward to getting up to Montreal and getting some things fixed. Thank you so much for the prayers. It will be a busy week. I have to work Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday will be filled with finalizing details. Thursday morning we will "kick the tires and light the fires" as we fly up to Montreal. God will go before us!

One day at a time. Small baby steps. I tried to lower the dose of Tim's pain medications but he is too sore. Please continue to pray for the flight and transfer plans to Montreal. Last I heard, there are still not definites on the flight. It is still going through the insurance's red tape. Please pray for Tim's pain. I am sure this will not be easy on all his fractures to fly up to Montreal. Thank you for praying for our family as a whole. This is not easy on an of our four kids. They are all processing this. Shoot, Kev and I are trying to process this too! But, God is good!!! We know that we are just walking down the path that God has already laid before us. We can only see just the inches right in front of us, not the whole path. But God sees the path and the entire garden!!!! "Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." Ps. 119:105

I went back to work today. The home health aid and physical therapist where in today to work with Tim. He got a shower :) We do not have a roll in shower so Tim get "hosed off" with a shower in the garage. I am thankful Tim has a sense of humor!! Still working on transportation details for Montreal. Thank you for your prayers! Tim is still pretty sore. Please pray for pain relief. It is very hard to watch Tim have so much pain.

God is good. I do not get out much but God always puts some of you in my path when I do get out. Thank you for the hugs. Thank you for the prayers. Thank you for sharing my tears. Do ever worry about what to say. Most of the time we just need a hug and a smile through the tears. Prayer request. Tomorrow I have to go to work. Pray that I can stay focused and give the rest to God. Pray for the home aid, nurse, and therapist who will be taking care of Tim tomorrow. Everyone is nervous and does not want to hurt Tim. Pray that our family can witness to all these people God is bringing into our lives and literally into our home :)

Things are coming together. Tim and I are getting ready for Montreal. We have had a lot people stopping at the house. Home health care nurses, PT, OT, Airway Oxygen, .....The phone is still ringing off the hook. Slowly we are getting there. Please pray that God will strengthen Tim's bones. The longer Tim is bed bound the more bone density he loses. We need those bones strong to try to fix them.

Crazy busy day! I had 3 people from Priority Health calling me. 3 people from the auto insurance. 3 people from the home health care agency calling and stopping by. Montreal Shriner's hospital calling me. On top of all that I had to take care of Tim. Give him his medications, transfer him in and out of bed, food, bathroom....The plan is back surgery on April 30 at the Shriner's Hospital. We are sooooo glad the surgery will not be at the Children's Hospital in Montreal. Tim and I will leave on April 26. Hopefully, while we are there Dr. Fassier will feel that Tim is stable enough to get either his arm or one of his legs fixed. The back surgery will keep us there for about a week. If they can do one of Tim's limbs that will put us there for at least 2 weeks. Anyone up for a road trip to visit us :) Thank you for your prayers. There are a lot of details to work out.

You have to love Sunday! To be honest, it was a rough night. Tim was up from 4-5am with a lot of pain. Tim and I watch God's power in a thunderstorm. Allison and I rode to church. She was part of the praise team today. We decided singing God's praises in the midst of the storm was a slap in the Devil's face!!! You we both sang today with tears running down our faces. God is still good. On Christ the solid rock I stand! All other ground is sinking sand. God is holding on to us. We, as a family, could not do this without the community of God around us holding us up. We are waiting to see when we get the "GO" from Montreal. I will post that info hopefully tomorrow.

HOME!!! We got Tim camping out in a hospital bed in the middle of our living room :) He is doing well. We need to get into somewhat of a routine. Lots of medications. Lots of equipment. It is nice to have Tim home.
Got a call from Montreal today. The back surgeon, Dr. Oulette got the CT scan of Tim's lower back. Several of the lower vertebrae are broke and unstable. More back surgery. The sooner the better. They hope to fuse the last 4 vertebrae. We will know the date for sure on Monday. The date they are looking at having us flown to Montreal is April 26. We might have more surgery up in Montreal on his arm or leg if they feel Tim's body can heal all of this surgery and trauma at the same time. We, as a family, are a bit numb to be honest. To be split apart again for surgery is not something we are looking forward to. Leaning on our everlasting God!! In Christ, Deb

Home tomorrow. That's the plan, Lord willing. Lots of paper work. Lots of organizing for home nursing care, tutoring, PT, OT......I have met more people in the last week. Small baby steps. The CT scan from the lower back has been sent. We shall see what Montreal has to say. All in God's time. Tim had a very sore day. When we were transferring Tim yesterday his leg got pulled (very hard to avoid all Tim's fractures!!!) and his right femur got stressed. He was very sore. Pray for me. I have my first day back to work tomorrow. I have to save my leave time for Montreal. My heart will be in 2 places. Pray for safety as we will be transferring Tim a lot tomorrow to get him home. Pray for the pain. I am sure Tim will be very sore with all the transferring. Praise God for the chance to be home!!! We as a family do not even know how to begin to say thank you to all of you praying for us. We are humbled and blessed.

We had a team meeting today at the hospital. The tenative plan is to discharge Tim to home on Friday. We will go home with half of the hospital!!! Hospital bed, reclining wheelchair, slide boards, 24 hour nursing care, in home PT and OT.....You get the picture. I got to see Tim's x-rays for the first time since the accident. In a word, scary. The rod in Tim's femur is bent. The right arm looks like it has an extra elbow. We heard from the back surgeon in Montreal. He would like some more CT pictures of Tim's lower back. "Something is not right." We are going to have those pictures done today and then FedEx'd up to Montreal. The auto insurance is putting an air ambulance on stand by to fly us up to Montreal when the doctors in Montreal give us the green light to come.
We are walking in the grace of God! God is in control of ALL of this!! We have no doubt. We have our faith in our Lord and Savior. He keeps all of His promises!!

We are making slow progress. Tim can transfer in and out of a reclining wheelchair with two people helping him. It is hard. Just to get him up to the bathroom takes an hour. First we have to fit all of his braces on, get the bed it just the right position, use a slide board, and two people to assist. He can tolerate being up for a couple of hours but then he gets really sore. For my medical friends out there he is on some serious pain medication. MS Contin, Vicodin, Robaxin, Valium. We have never, ever needed this much medicine for pain. The spasms are getting less but when they hit it is bad.
We did receive word back from Montreal. The back surgeon will be in tomorrow and review all the films that we sent. Dr. Fassier, the surgeon that has done Tim's arms and legs, is out of town this week but his nurse is aware and knows that Dr. Fassier will address it as soon as he is back in town. Progress!!!
Thanks for all the prayers! God is so good. Pray for patience. Pray that the pain continues to lessen.

We had an ok day. Tim was very sore this morning. Everything hurt. The people here are great. They are trying hard to figure out how we can keep Tim mobile even though we only have one limb working :S Tim gives it all he's got and then some. It worries me that he might pull so hard with his left arm that he might break that one too.
We have left a lot of messages for Montreal and hope to hear from them soon. They recasted Tim's right arm here at Mary Free Bed today. When they took the current cast off we measured the arm and there was a 40 % angle on the humerus. Not good!
Kevin and I are reading an awesome book call Forever. I was reading today and these verses came up. We are claiming them as a family. 2 Corinthians 4: 16-18 "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
Thank you again for your prayers. Please pray that we hear word from Montreal soon. Please pray for us to accept whatever the doctors up in Montreal want to do, even if they say we should wait. All is God's perfect time.

HE IS RISEN! Blessed Easter to all!
Tim is doing ok. We got him up in a reclining wheelchair and outside briefly yesterday. Putting on the armor of God has a whole new meaning! Tim has a turtle shell brace that starts at his neck and goes all the way past his right femur. It is a lot of pieces and parts and takes 30 minutes for us to get him into. He has to have it on whenever he tries to get up into the wheelchair. It is Tim's suit of armor!
Please pass on to people that we are in Mary Free Bed now. I have had some calls from DeVos and people have stopped up to see Tim. Thank you for the sweet notes of encouragment. The sweet texts. The prayers. We need them all!!!!
Our hope in in FOREVER! This is part of the journey that God has asked the Boschs to walk and we see His mercy and grace through it all. But this is not our home. This is not where we belong. We long for the day with no more pain and no more suffering!!!!

A New Chapter Begins

Dear Friends, Wow. I do not even know where to begin. On March 28, 1987 I married my best friend and a wonderful man. To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, Allison's senior year, and visit Erika who is spending a semester abroad with Calvin in Honduras, Kevin, Allison, and I left for Santa Lucia, Honduras on March 28, 2012 to spend a week with Erika. On March 29 Tim was involved in a car accident. Tim's car was hit in the rear bumper when Tim missed the red light at the corner of State and Roosevelt in Zeeland. The other driver is fine. Praise the Lord! Tim's car spun into the deep ditch on the side of the road. It landed nose down and on the passanger side in a watery ditch. My sister witnessed the crash (Praise God!) and called 911. They had to cut the car apart to get Tim out. Tim is pretty beat up. He has been at DeVos Children's Hospital for over a week. We were just transferred to Mary Free Bed on Friday. Currently, he has a fractured right femur (upper leg), a fractured left lower leg (tibia), a fractured right humerus with a bent rod (upper arm), and spinal fractures above and below the spinal fusion we did last year. The right arm will need surgery soon. The doctors in Grand Rapids do not feel comfortable doing that surgery. It will be a tricky one. We do not want to loose function and/or feeling in the arm. We will have to get that surgery scheduled up in Montreal as soon as Tim is well enough to travel. Tim is in some pain. A lot of spasms. It is better than the first few days but we are on the strongest pain medications that Tim has ever needed. We are at Mary Free Bed until Tim is able to transfer (ie. bed to wheelchair, wheelchair to comode, wheelchair to car) with only one working limb.
So, there are the nuts and bolts. We have cried a lot. Tears of joy! Tim is still alive!!! If the air bag would have gone off Tim would not survived. Tears of pain. Tim is suffering again. Tears of frustration. Tim had come so far. He was starting to walk again after 2 years. Tears of being apart as a family. All Erika wanted to do was call in quits and fly home from Honduras with us.
On Sunday while in Honduras Kevin, Allison, Erika, and I found a small little white church. The First Baptist church of Roatan. We sat quietly and numbly in one of the back pews. The people there sang and danced for our Lord and Savior. One of the songs we sang with them was "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms." The last verse says:

What have I to dread, what have I to fear,Leaning on the everlasting arms?I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,Leaning on the everlasting arms.

I am sure no one knew why the only 4 white people in the church had tears running down their cheeks while trying to choke out those words. Or why 4 people where hugging each other and crying on a small verada in the mountains of Honduras after the phone call came. Quietly the song came to our lips and we started singing Peace like a River.
Easter Sunday is tomorrow. But my heart goes back to Friday right now. I can not even begin to imagine how hard it must have been for God to turn His back on His own Son. To watch His Son take on the suffering and pain of my sin. It is so hard to watch Tim's pain and suffering.
Thank you for your prayers. Thank you to all the people that stepped up big time to be with Tim while we where so many miles away.
Prayer requests. Less pain. Peace for Tim. He has a long road in front of him. Again. He is digging deep. Scheduling. We need to get this surgery done on Tim's arm. Wisdom and Patience. Kev and I have 4 kids. Each of them need and deserve time and attention.
I will try and keep this blog updated daily. It is humbling as a family to know how many people are praying for us. We are blessed! God has given us feet for the path. Have a blessed Easter. He is RISEN!! Praise God!!!

Updates will be on the blog about Tim, as soon as his family is home to post them. Check back soon. Thank you for all your prayers.