We've gotten a few calls and many e-mails. Ryan realy appreciates your support. We're heading into a full week at Mary Bridge, and man is this a great staff. Docs are great, and the nurses are top notch.

He is doing good. Pain management is better now that he can have the hard stuff, morphine. The nerve disorder he has makes his skin extra sensitive, and he has "misfires" where the nerves start to wake up and it causes a fair amount of pain. I'm proud of how he has handed the pain.

Today he walked 150 feet. Looked like a ittle old man making steps, and he wasn't fast. From what his neuroligist said, it appears that he may have been lucky and gotten a mild case of GBS. (Mild case of a syndrome that paralyzes you sounds wierd).

He ate solid food today, pizza, one of his favorite meals. With luck he won't have to go into inpatient therapy, and just do the outpatient stuff. Our hope is to be home this week. We hope.

Like I before, we have been lucky. Our boy is alive, he will recover, and compared to what others are experiencing here, our week so far is a minor inconvenience.

Thanks for asking. Sorry for giving a similar response to a number of you, but cutting and pasting saves a bit of time.

Andy & Dawn