Thanks guys for the kind words. I read them to Ryan just now.

One way, I have a co-worker who went through a similar issue, so I'll see if she would be willing to talk to Ryan. Thanks for the advice, and I have a beer waiting for you whenever you make it up here.

From this morning he continues to improve a bit at a time, but still has some flurries of pain, literally, as he experiences what I call "misfires" as pain radiates around his nervous system in a matter of seconds. More than a few tears have been shed this week, but he looks better today. Still waiting for another smile though.

The onset was fairly rapid, and if we had not been pains in the asses with our doctors we would have waited another day, and Ryan would have been in worse shape. Friday he was a giggling goofy 9 year old, and it went downhill rapidly from there.

Thanks again for those of you who called and wrote. It means the world to us.