Mom had an eventful day. Overall she continues to improve slowly and gradually. A repeat CT of her head showed that her subdural hematoma (bleeding in the brain) is slightly smaller. The amount of support she gets with each breath is decreasing. Her sedation is also being decreased. This afternoon all sedation was stopped for a short time. During this "vacation" mom responded to verbal commands from her physician. For example she wiggled her toes, blinked her eyes and tried to stick out her tongue. While these are encouraging signs, we won't know how her head injury affected her until she is off sedation.

Bob is healing well. His abrasions and lacerations (cuts and scrapes) are healing well. He says that his head now looks like a road map instead of a train map. His leg is still quite swollen and his shoulder is still quite sore. However, both problems are slowly improving.