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.

Happy Mother's Day! Hope everyone is enjoying the sun and a day with family. We had Tim's first x-rays here in GR on Friday. They went well. The doctors were very pleased. There is one screw that seems to be working its way out. Please pray that it stops. It might pull on the hardware attached to it and cause more screws to loosen. We will go in for more films sooner than planned just to keep a close eye on the whole process. The doctors feel that the first 6 months are the most critical. Thanks for the prayers! So glad to be this far!

3 Yeah Gods!!! First, Tim went to church this morning :)! First day back in church since the service at Community the last Sunday in Feb!!! Second, I am going back to work tomorrow! I am excited to get back to work but also nervous about not being as accessible to Tim but, God has that all worked out :) Third, Tim walked today!!! Yes, he walked! He wanted to try it again so we got out his walker (which is a little too short for him now!), put a spotter on each side of him and he walked around the house a little. YEAH GOD!!!