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Saturday, October 8th - Day 111 Update

Submitted by Tim Schmanski on Sat, 2005-10-08 23:33.

Hey there,

Tori slept quite well Friday night and nurse Claire said Tori smiled at her this morning!! We unfortunately missed the unvalidated smile but are hoping to see some ourselves here real soon.

It was a pretty laid back day today for Tori as we cycled in family and visitors all day. Tori stayed fully awake and aware and continues to demonstrate excellent tracking and focusing ability combined with head movement. She also had some PT exercises and stretching done today. She was rarely agitated today as well and we are trying to de-sensitize her to touching once again. She is improving on this front but is still a bit 'jumpy' at times...

I continued giving her taste testing with a strawberry dum-dum sucker and a green apple blow-pop. Both were big hits to Tori and she very willingly opens her mouth up for tastes and swallows quickly afterward. We are going to try some other items hopefully tomorrow.

Her vitals were great today so tomorrow we are going to finally attempt to plug her trach. More blood and phlegm samples were taken again today as well and Tori continues to receive antibiotics. They want to make absolutely sure she is totally clear of bacteria before removing them.

Alright, that is the short, short report for tonight!!

Thanks again everyone,

-Tim

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Re: Saturday, October 8th

Submitted by Guy Lunardi on Sun, 2005-10-09 00:13.

This weekend started with a lot of 'family' activities. Sophie and I were delighted to meet Tim, Todd and TJ's cousins from Minnesota.

After our Japanese dinner on Friday night, their family gathered for a dinner at Chuck-A-Rama tonight. If my count is correct, there were 22 of us at dinner.

Now about Tori, got the chance to spend a few minutes with her today. She is definitely much more alert now than when we first got back. She can also choose to ignore you very well :-). But fortunetely she only did so for a second.

I am quite convinced she starred at the TV for a little while as well today. She probably was wondering why the programmation is so bad on all the networks.

Her sensitivity to touch is still very much there but, like Grandpa Paul says, if you take the time to explain to her what you are about to do and give a few seconds - she can handle it quite well.

I would like to thank Tim and his family for having us with them tonight and always. It was great to see them all and experience Chuck-A-Rama which stood as a myth for me and something I never really expected to live first hand. But than again, this whole thing is the same way.

Hang in there Tori, I wish you a good night.

You all have a good night as well,
-Guy

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