Within thirty-six hours of spending the better part of the day at Johns Hopkins, we were again in ambulance-transport heading back. In fact, I’m actually writing this as we’re driving there on Thursday morning and will add to it throughout the day. I so wish I could keep you updated as the day unfolds, but […]
Austin Vantrease has Prison Custody Transferred
Late last week I learned the state of West Virginia prison system transferred Austin Vantrease. He left his longtime abode at the Potomac Highlands Regional Jail to new digs at the Martinsburg Correctional Facility. The Victim Information and Notification Everyday (a.k.a., VINE) alerts me in two ways; telephone and email. The alerts are either on […]
A Day at Johns Hopkins
Yesterday was the day we took Ryan to Johns Hopkins (Baltimore) for all the exams and tests. We had him up early and in the ambulance by six o’clock. Fourteen hours later, we finally returned home. It was exhausting.
Day Out: Awful and Tedious
Early morning here in Northern Virginia was perfect today. That is, before the sun burned through the haze and climbed higher into the sky. It got hot… fast! The good news is, I had Ryan out on the patio before this. It was a comfortable seventy-degrees and the humidity was bearable. We did some of […]
Losers Weepers
I bet, by the title of today’s post, you were expecting me to talk about Ryan’s attackers. Not so. It’s something else entirely, but I’ll need to set it up first. We were without a nurse again last night for the second Saturday in three weeks, so a family friend came over to help out […]