Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

10 PM PST

At one point today we had the neurology team, and several of his doctors, the opthamologist?, the occupational and physical therapists, as well as his nurse and assistant nurse (coach), Patty and me in his room. He seems to be getting plenty of attention, and maybe they will learn to schedule their time with him a little better. Besides all of these, his speech pathologists were in later to test him. He did pretty well in responding to all of their commands and requests. He nodded, gave Hi Fives, pointed to objects and pictures, is starting to track objects with his right eye (but not past the middle of his body), and for the first time shook his head 'no'. I need to mention that he might give one of these correct responses once, and then not respond at all to the next question. There is a still a lot of inconsistency.

Yesterday Patty asked him to smile (he really only has one expression, and that is no expression) and he made a huge effort to smile, though not real successful. Today he had more control of his mouth, trying to imitate us by attempting to mouth a couple simple words. He only slept two hours, max., last night so please pray that he starts sleeping more. The doctor told us that this is common for brain trauma cases, and this can be compounded because they are changing many of his meds.

We praise god for his progress, but realize that this may be a really long and tedious road that we are on. Thanks again for all of your prayers, comments and support, as it means the world to us and helps us to keep on going, cheerfully.

Steve