Good progress today, as Ryan starting taking in food orally. The GBS had affected his swallowing, so he basically hadn't eaten anything since Monday, just IV fluids and a few bites of pudding. He can now lift his arms up to 90 degrees, plus he read 35 pages today and turned the pages by himself. He really can't grasp anything, but he did scratch his ear and nose by himself today. Yesterday he couldn't do this due to the paralysis he was suffering. Lots of steps ahead of him, like sitting up on his on, standing, walking, writing, and so on.

Mentally he is all there, and verbally as well. Just having issues connecting the messages from his brain to the extremities. He smiled a lot today, his voice is almost back to normal (sounded like he had a cleft pallet on Monday), and he cracked a few jokes.

A month ago this was him.


He'll be back up and running in time for summer steelhead and Sekiu silvers.

Thanks for all of your support folks.