We have done our first newspaper interview, of many. Nothing has changed. The CW5 in charge of my appeal needs to be contacted by my husbands unit- to discuss what we need to do. No, there is no way we can pull together a family care plan. Two soldiers cannot deploy without a care provider in place, so what are we to do? I am now almost fully healed from my surgery. My orders have been published, extending my service time until 5 days past my ETS with the IRR- so I guess that falls under stop-loss. So, i’ll get Thanksgiving- but not Christmas.To do- Write my Congressman, Call the CW5 myself and hope he’ll talk to me, gather together all of our family letters stating why they cannot meet the fcp requirements.Its July- I report in November.Ive been searching around, and the number of blogs by IRR recalled soldiers is growing! I am learning a lot.