 There had been an accident and I thought that it was just the phone tree in action and he was kind of just let me know About something that happened and never thought twice that it was Taylor So I you know, I was like, okay, and then he said you know it was Taylor Taylor stepped on an IED and I got out of the car and kind of paced around I got sick and everything and I Immediately just wanted to be by his side and I knew that he was in Afghanistan He had to still jump from hospital to hospital before he got to the United States When Taylor is About ready to deploy. I just said just come back like you know, I was worried about his mental state I didn't you know, I didn't want him to come back any other way than how I've like our friendship was built on I just wanted the same person to come back. I wasn't scared for him to get hurt Or anything like that like that never crossed my mind I thought the hardest part of deployment would be not seeing him for six to eight months Well when I was in the in the hospital probably once I got out of the ICU and the intensive care unit I Was up on the fourth floor and then they back off, you know on the pain meds a little bit and start waking up a little bit and Danielle basically lived in that room, you know slept on the little reclining chair that they had and then And basically would just leave, you know to go shower at a hotel and come back and she was there for pretty much everything She'd be always writing down the everything the doctor said and you know keeping a little Hospital diary type thing and it's ironic now because he literally came back missing all of his limbs But it's exactly the same person. He was before he left and I don't think anything has changed because we built our Relationship based on a strong foundation of being best friends and we still are so we're just kind of Working our way through a different Life that we didn't think that we'd ever have living at a hospital for a year and a half and such but We'll get to our end end point or end goal just the same way We tried not to look at what life was a few weeks ago and what life was now and we're What he could have done before and what he can do now We didn't try to look at the big picture. We'd set little goals along the way And if it was sitting up in bed, it was sitting up in bed And that was our goal for that week hanging out with our friends and just doing everything that we did before All this has been about you know finding a new or a different way to do it But what the end goal you know is to get back to you know as normal as they can be and all that so Just finding different ways to do it little tricks here and there I definitely like driving You know that that brings back a huge level of independence, you know, and you can drive somewhere and and you can walk around You know, that's that's a big part of the puzzle there. So Getting bit basically getting that that drive ability back We're looking forward to taking the next step and moving on to the next thing and getting back to Iowa Well, we found our dream piece of land and so hopefully over Thanksgiving or Christmas We can close on it and then come spring when all the snow melts and Everything and we already kind of have been focusing on what we want the house to look like we can just hit the ground and run and spring and build it and He can retire and we can move back home and Life can move on to the next phase