Saturday, October 15th - Day 118 Update

Hello,

Tori had another great night of sleep Friday night. After giving her a valium at 1:00am she slept solidly until 11:00am when the OT therapist entered her room for Tori's session. She mainly worked on Tori's arms and shoulders today and when she was finished we placed Tori's hands into the finger separating splints which Tori tolerated for most of the day.

I then got Tori in her wheelchair and we spent about 1.5 hours touring the HSH and we also went outside for a while. Tori watched the cars go by on the busy street and enjoyed the fresh air and breeze. When we were finished I left her in her room and just afterward Grandma and Grandpa Harris arrived to spend some time with her. Sophie and her parents also came in for a visit. I headed back down to Orem to try and find Brendan... To make a long story short he is safe and sound inside the house tonight.

Tori will be sleeping with her trach button plugged tonight. Hopefully she will do very well and we can attempt to remove the trach all together during the next week. That is the goal we are striving towards.

Tori is exhibiting some interesting sounds whenever the nurses come in to change or re-position her. She just seems to hum, moan and make strange noises as they are working around her. More than the usual noises that is so we don't know if she is try to communicate or if it is just the movement bringing out all of the sound. She does make many sounds otherwise and we are hoping she continues to improve on them.

That is the short report for tonight. Thanks again and goodnight!!

-Tim