Thursday and Friday, October 26th and 27th

Good day,

We have been continuing to give Tori a little bit of oxygen during the night. She can maintain a 90% blood oxygen level now when she is relaxed and about to sleep but it goes down 1% to 4% when is sleeping. So we still need to help her out a little with 1 or 2 liters of oxygen support. She has selpt well though during the past couple of nights.

Megan from THS visited on Thursday and Tori did some more work with the switch. She can consistently turn on and off the disco ball with her right hand and particularly her right thumb. It is the one digit she seems to have great control over. She can raise and lower it as instructed and since she doesn't need to pick up or move her arm or hand there is no trembling. Megan plugged in Tori's CD player and a lighted Halloween pumpkin and Tori spent some more time turning them on and off.

Meredyth also stopped by Thursday afternoon for an ST session. Meredyth was working hard to get Tori to make different sounds but there wasn't much success. Tori make general sounds but getting her to utilize her tongue and mouth shape is the challenge. It will definitely take alot of hard work on this front...

Meredyth also brought out the Mac notebook and had Tori completing some very simple puzzles. The 5 pieces would be displayed and when Tori hit the mouse button a piece would be placed. Tori would then continue until the puzzle was filled.

I'm taking Whitney and Brendan to spend the night in Ogden on Friday. Whitney will be dancing all weekend and Brendan and I will try and spend some time with Todd, Laurie, TJ, Lorrie and all of Brendan's cousins. It should be fun!! Maria will come up on Saturday and I will then head home to take care of Tori.

Thanks again everyone,

-Tim