UPDATE!!  We made it home!!!  Sorry to leave you hanging, but it’s been a whirlwind weekend.  After driving from Grenoble to Lyon Thursday afternoon, we checked in to another sorta, kinda, wheelchair accessible hotel, then treated ourselves to a nice dinner.  We got up at 2:30 am, drove to the Lyon airport, arriving at 4:00am.  The taxi driver left us in the middle of an empty parking lot in total darkness with no wheelchair and all our luggage.  I left Ted sitting on a bench and hauled all the luggage inside to try to find a wheelchair.  The airport was basically deserted, but I finally found someone who pointed me in the general direction of “assistance”.  I threatened the check-in lady with “unattended luggage in an airport” until she started her computer and let me check our luggage.  I found a wheelchair and went back out in the parking lot to bring Ted inside.  Long story short - we made it through security, flew to Paris, had to change terminals (why they expect someone in a wheelchair to take a shuttle bus with steps???), made it through the almost 11 hour flight home, zipped through customs, and FINALLY were officially back in Texas!

On Friday afternoon, our daughters and Ted’s biking buddy, Randy, and his wife, met us at DFW airport.  Randy was the one who was with Ted when he crashed; he said he needed to see Ted home.  The girls drove us back to Wichita Falls.  Yes, Ted’s truck started after being parked for 5 weeks at the airport.  We pulled into our driveway about 6:15 Friday night.  Our dear friends had put a Welcome Home sign in the yard and gave us a bulletin board full of restaurant gift cards so one of us could take it easy and not be cooking for awhile!

We got to watch the Ags play football on Saturday.  Ted spent a few hours at his office on Sunday, then has been back at the office today.  The office gang surprised him with a welcome home party this morning that the girls and I attended.  We sure wish Teddy was here with us, but we’ll see him in a couple of weeks when he flies in for the Alabama football game.

We were able to borrow a shower chair and a wheelchair from friends (it’s nice to know a physical therapist with a storage shed full of medical equipment). We go BACK to Dallas tomorrow to see the doctor who performed Ted’s knee replacement last January.  The doc is also a hip guy, so he will check Ted’s right knee and hip and will give us instructions for rehab.  From what we understand, Ted is not to put any weight on his right leg through the middle of October.  At least now the instructions and papers will be in English!!!!!!

Again, thank you each and every one for all the support.  It has been overwhelming!  I was so focused on getting home, I really didn’t think beyond that.  But thanks to generous family and friends, you are seeing us past just getting home.  It will still be several weeks before Ted is healed and truly on the road to recovery.  His journey is not yet over.  But at least we are HOME!!!