aww! cal would have been so grateful not to lose her in the custody battle, so to speak. and if she's checking up on him, maybe she didn't hear from him a ton at the very worst of it (he just wouldn't have wanted any of it to get back to bridget, hi, he can be insecure), but he checked in with her and thanked her when he started going to the va for therapy and working on his treatment. and duh, when he got his dog, he started sending her pictures all the time