I spoke with mom's nurse today. Evidently mom is now having more alert episodes. There is a scoring system called the Glascow Coma Score which attempts to quantify a patients level of alertness. Previously mom was having variable scores but now is scoring more consistently higher. The maximum score is 15. Mom was ranging from scores of 10-11 to scores of 14-15. She is now more consistently in the 14-15 range. This is a good trend but does not completely answer how her head injury has affected her communication, personality and memory. We will have to wait for her to speech to make this determination.

She continues to do well with her therapies. One of the pins from her right hand spontaneously fell out today. I do not know when they plan to remove the other two pins. She continues to wear the neck collar for her cervical spine fracture. I also do not know how long she will need to wear this device. She is now starting to raise her left arm slightly.