More of the same good stuff

I haven't been able to be with Ryan today, but Monique (his mom) gave me some updates that I wanted to share with everyone. Ryan started his physical therapy & did very well. Afterwards he was pretty pooped out & when I spoke with Monique he was taking a nice nap. He also passed his swallow test, so they're going to go ahead & allow him to have liquids & soft foods. After a while they'll allow him solids, but until then, his feeding tube will still remain in. Ryan's been practically begging for a drink of water, so I know he must be so excited (and I am, too)!

I will probably be back with Ryan in Syracuse tomorrow. I'm trying to take care of some things here in Watertown - packing up, but mostly trying to figure out what to do with the dog:

She was going to maybe fly home with my mom on Wednesday, but I don't think that we'll be able to manage to get that together. As of now, the plan is that I'll ship her out to my dad in Arizona later on this week. Hopefully that will work out because the cost to have her boarded here is $15/day. If Ryan had a say he'd probably just want to get rid of her, so I'm not letting him have a vote. ☻

The plan is for us to get back out to California as soon as we're able. More than anything, this accident proved to me/us that we're just not cut out for this cold weather & snow business. The settlement we're going to get from the insurance company for the car is going to help enormously. What I think we'll do is get out of this apartment & get our things into storage in Syracuse until we move. I'm able to stay at Sarah House as long as Ryan's in the hospital, & if Ryan needs to be doing some rehabilitation here before we can get out to CA, he can (likely) stay there also. We'll probably be staying with my mom (luckily she & my step-dad have some room to spare at their house) for a few months until we can get things settled (namely a job in place for me so that we can get our own apartment). It's difficult to plan too much ahead since we're not sure how long Ryan will be in the hospital, or where he's need to go/need to be when he's released, but I'm trying to do the best I can to get things sorted out.

Things are slowly falling into place & hopefully very soon Ryan will be back at full health & we'll both be back in sunny Southern California (where we belong)!