Saturday

Our oven arrived on Thursday and Randy and our neighbor put it in. It is so nice to have a working oven again! We had a freezer full of food we couldn't cook and I think we were all getting tired of eating frozen dinners.

Randy has been utilizing the Access transportation almost every day. At first, I had to schedule everything for him, but I gave him the instructions for how and he hasn't had any real difficulty doing for himself, which is very nice for both of us. He loves getting out of the house for a little while each day, which I can completely understand. I would go crazy being stuck in the house all day almost every day. He has also been playing with the nintendo DS quite a bit. We have the Super Mario Bro game and, at first, Randy really struggled with playing it ~ responding in time to the different situations he comes across in the game or getting his left side to respond enough to do what he wants to do. But he has come a long way in the last few weeks. At one point, he was very frustrated because he couldn't get past one world he was on and I thought for sure he was going to give up. He didn't, though. He stuck with it and kept on trying until he finally made it.

He still hasn't had any luck in dealing with the vocational therapist he has been in contact with at Boeing. I think that person isn't in the office all of the time, so he is hard to get a hold of. When Randy finally did get a hold of him, the guy hadn't done anything as of yet (as far as researching what can be done in Randy's case) so he didn't have any information for Randy. Randy is feeling very frustrated. Hopefully things will start moving with this guy, though, so we can start working on getting Randy back into a working environment.

I think that is it for the updates over the last few days.