Sunday, July 17th - Day 35 Update

Hello everyone,

Tori slept in a bit today after her 5:00am dose of Valium. The ended up sleeping quite soundly until 11:00am or so and I was also able to get some sleep from 5:00am until 8:00am. When she awoke we decided to finally get her into her custom wheelchair and take her for a ride!! Maria and Whitney arrived at 12:00pm or so to find her already seat belted in and ready to go. So we gave her the hospital tour and took her outside for a little fresh air as well. She was in the chair for about 70 minutes total and did a good 30 minutes of touring. She really seemed to enjoy it even with her somewhat drowsy state.

Tori remained awake for the most part of the day after her tour. She had several more friends visit including Kenzie, Angel, Courtney, Bree and Chelsy. The list of drugs I broke down in yesterdays update will more than likely be tweaked again because Tori is in too drowsy of a state for our liking. The last weening dose of Haldol was given to Tori this morning so hopefully her alertness and awareness will improve over the next couple of days. We haven't really seen her bright eyed, smiling and laughing for about a week now and we miss it greatly as everyone can imagine... Tweaking the drug dosages is also a very fine line because we do not want to see her in pain either...

That is all for todays short update. Maria will be spending the night with Tori and we are planning to initiate the Valium far earlier than last night. Hopefully it will be just as effective as this mornings dose.

Thanks!

-Tim