Monday November 8th

We woke up at 6 this morning, we got breakfast and started the wait to see if today would be the day to move back to St George. The morning was long and the social worker came in to say she was working on it and she would let us know. About 9:40 she came in and said they would be picking Josh up at 10:30, he was to go by ambulance. Josh really wanted to go but was a little nervous not knowing where he was going. I packed up the things in our room and went back to my mom's to get packed there and pick her and Asher up. We hurried so that we could catch up with the ambulance on the road. I talked to Josh several times, but we didn't meet up with them until Cedar City. He did really well on the ride down but he was really tired when we finally got settled in his new room. The new place is nice and their goal is to get him ready to come home. They have a schedule set up during the day that keeps him really busy. They have a dining room where he will eat all his meals. They have two physical therapy rooms and an occupational therapy room that is set up like an apartment. The OT room has all the things to help him to be able to cook and do laundry, get in and out of bed, anything he might need to do to take care of himself. He has a private room with a bathroom that has a shower in it. He was a little worried about the strictness of the new place, but I told him that this is what is going to get him home. I stayed with him for the rest of the evening and left around 10:30, they didn't want me to stay, nor did they have anywhere that I could sleep. It was hard leaving him, I have been with him day and night up until now. They also said they didn't want me to come in during therapy for a couple of days. They want him to get used to his new schedule and part of this is learning to be independent. I will go in as soon as he is done with his therapy for the day until Thursday, then I will go in and see what they are having him do. Also on Thursday they are going to have their meeting about him to set up a goal for a release date. I feel like he is going to do really well here and it won't be to long before he can come home and just do out patient therapy.
I am so happy to be home, I slept in my bed for the first time in 6 weeks. It is nice to be back with the kids. Taking care of Josh has been my life for the last 6 weeks, I will still be doing that but it looks like I will have a little more time to start doing the things I did before. I can't wait for the day he comes home. I want to thank everyone who has helped us in anyway to make it this far, he still has a ways to go but he is getting there faster than anyone can believe. The doctor that seen him last night said that he was surprised he was doing as well as he is after reading his chart. Looking forward to the day that we are all under the same roof again, Love Denise