Update #147

Merry Christmas (well, in an hour and fifteen minutes) from back at Drake!

After some miscommunications between UC and Drake, Dave arrived back on the Rehab Floor (not the SNF unit) around 3:00 p.m. today - same room, same roommate, same plan for therapy. His room is much more bare, though - in the two day UC interim, he was actually discharged from Drake, so we had to move his stuff to my house (HUGE thank you to the McLaughlins and Todd for taking care of that), and thinking optimistically that Dave won't be here for very long, we've decided not to move back in (we're already missing the mini fridge and coffeemaker though).

Today was a really lazy day of waiting around to be transferred, but thankfully, Dave got some much needed rest last night and this morning while we waited. Tomorrow is a quiet Christmas lunch with his parents and more relaxing before therapy kicks off again on Friday.

In the past few weeks, we have received Christmas cards from all over the country, and it has been so wonderful getting updates from everyone who has been reading ours since Update #1. Dave and I have decided to give ourselves a free pass on real Christmas cards this year - you all aleady know the basic gist of our year anyway - but from both of us to you, Merry Christmas! Time to watch The Christmas Story marathon on TBS. :-)