For those who don’t follow Ryan on Facebook, you missed my post there on Saturday. Two huge things happened as the result of one event… My daughter, Kari graduated from West Virginia University and Ryan returned there for the first time since leaving in a medical airplane. The last time my family were all together […]
Ryan Returning to Morgantown (WVU): Kari Graduates
It baffles my mind. Really, it’s so difficult for me to get a grip on it. It was 5½ years ago that Ryan was last in Morgantown, WV. The last day was when he was discharged from Ruby Memorial Hospital’s ICU (to Shepherd Center Rehab ICU) in late-November 2009 seems like a lifetime ago. You […]
That’s What I Miss Most
by Kari Diviney (Ryan’s Sister) The hardest part is when I see Ryan in my dreams and he is completely his old self. This has been happening a lot lately. I dream of him laughing his squinty-eyed laugh with me and talking about some crazy opinion he has on some random topic. He was always […]
The Diviney’s Annual Holiday Outing
We had an annual holiday tradition (among many) where the family would pile in the car and head out to look at Christmas lights. We did this every year, until 2009, when Ryan was so badly harmed. That Christmas was spent in an ICU room in Atlanta with Ryan teetering on death. Unfortunately, 2010 found […]
She’ll Always be My Little Girl.
I’ve done a few things right in my life. On the scale of good versus bad, I am certain it is tipped well to the good-side (at least so far, but no promises for my future). Now, left to my own devices… well… there’s no telling how I would have turned out but you can […]