{"id":2791,"date":"2017-09-19T21:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T21:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2017-09-19T21:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T21:28:32","slug":"dave-ryles-still-in-recovery-in-issaquah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2791","title":{"rendered":"Dave Ryles still in recovery in Issaquah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Dave-Ryles-Les-Eathorne-and-Ben-Manchion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2792\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Dave-Ryles-Les-Eathorne-and-Ben-Manchion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave Ryles, Les Eathorne, Ben Manchion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is from Patti Ryles she posted recently on the CaringBridge site about her husband Dave Ryles, who is in recovery from a stroke. Ryles, as most of you know, was a tremendous 3-sport athlete at East Bremerton High School and graduated from there in 1969. He played baseball at Olympic College and Washington State and has been a baseball scout for Philadelphia for many years as well as a former teacher\/coach at Cedercrest High School in Duvall. Here\u2019s what Patti wrote:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It&#8217;s been a little over 7 weeks since Dave entered Virginia Mason and then transferred to Issaquah Rehab and Nursing.\u00a0 Unfortunately there has been very little progress.\u00a0 He has regained motion on his leftside, it&#8217;s still weak but is slowly getting better.\u00a0 Mentally there has been no progress.\u00a0 He is still unable to swallow correctly so still has the feeding tube.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not losing anymore weight but not gaining either.\u00a0 He weighs 120 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>He has been able to get into a wheelchair with help and has to be propped up with pillows but at least it&#8217;s a change from the bed<\/p>\n<p>He continues to have many, many visitors which we are grateful for.\u00a0 Sometimes Dave recognizes people other times he doesn&#8217;t.\u00a0 He seems to do best remembering things that happened 20-40 yrs ago.\u00a0 He is receiving cards all of the time from previous students\/football players who have such wonderful memories of Dave.\u00a0 I take them in and read them to him.\u00a0 Most of the time he says he recognizes the name.\u00a0 I just sit and cry because of the wonderful memories they have of Dave and how he impacted their lives.\u00a0 Please keep him in your prayers.\u00a0 Thanks to all of you.\u00a0 Patti<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Ryles, Les Eathorne, Ben Manchion &nbsp; This is from Patti Ryles she posted recently on the CaringBridge site about&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}