August 28, 2017 9:50 am (Mountain)

For the first time in just over two months, we failed to post on Josh's blog yesterday. This caused a flurry of emails and text messages from many of you asking if everything is OK. YES, EVERYTHING IS OK.

We didn't post last night simply because we were en route from Seattle back to Denver and didn't get in until about 1:30 this morning. Since we had been gone all weekend, we didn't have much information to share anyway, so we skipped a day.

Josh spent the day in relative peace at Swedish with his beloved grandmother, who took excellent care of him. Nothing eventful happened. He is scheduled to transfer back to Craig today. We'll post again later tonight with an update.

Thanks for your concern.

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