Thinking of you. Hope that this day will be a peaceful one for all of you. How thoughtful you are to mention Brady, Tori's roommate. Even though you are enduring so much emotional trama, you are still thoughtful enough to think of others and their personal pain. We all need to do that for others! Another good lesson you have taught me. Good luck with the car wash. Wish I could be there. Hope to see some photos. Love, Auntie Jill and Uncle Donny.

Tori had a very relaxed and sleep filled day today. She did have to have a couple of half doses of Morphine at 3:00am and 7:00am but the agitation, Myoclonus and Clonus episodes seem to be diminishing. She woke up for about a half an hour at 8:00am and after that she slept in a deep and very comfortable state. She was placed in her practice wheelchair again for about an hour at 1:00pm and then had a sponge bath and shampoo afterward followed by more sleep. Seeing all of the sleep was very good today because she did it on her own for the most part. We are sure she needed some catching up to do over the last few days... She was awake again tonight without agitation before I left at 9:30pm. Tori just looks and feels alot better than she has over the last few days so hopefully the medications are taking effect here.

Tori had also begun feeding again through a continuous mode and is now recieving the missing drugs again as well. She held down her feeds today since she had NO Morphine!! We still haven't moved to the NTU so we'll hope for it again tomorrow.

Sorry for the late report tonight as I went to take a quick nap with Brendan and Whitney and now it's 5:00am on Saturday...

Thank you again everyone and please include a special prayer for Tori's room mate Brady who passed away today. May you rest in peace Brady.

-Tim

I was wondering if she is a Days fan because my sister can get an autographed picture or possibly a visit from one of the members of the cast. She was going to write about this but she has been busy today so I am doing this for her. If anyone knows if she is than please post to this and comment about it. Thanks. I hope that things are going better today for Tori. I look forward to reading the latest edition of Tim's or Guys comments.

Crystal

My dear Schmanski family, again my name is Jane my daughter is Rachel. Tonight as I read through the last few days and even hours of ups and downs and I want/wish for your wife's pain and exauhstion to stop, now I know that is not really possible but stop in the way that she might have a nap with a real dream, eat without getting sick, hold Whitney, or your son and just simply hold them with nothing else in her mind. At some moments in the day or darkest of nite (or your just not really sure because time is now in a tunnell and it never stops and never starts), when you are in the hospital environment; it seems that it is all too much to imagine and yet it is, you and your family are doing this with amazing grace and dignity. May God continue to bless you all in even the smallest of matters eating well, driving too and from the hospital safely, up to the big ones that Tori will have a bed open up soon in the right unit. The list does go on and so do the prayers God Bless Jane Perry (and Rachel)

The last picture of the set that Alan Mark found for Tim and Maria. Great smiles

Tori and Whitney wearing identical clothes.

Alan also had pictures of Tori and Whitney together.

Tim and Maria's friend Alan found those pictures for us.

Hello everyone,

Before focusing on the negative aspects of Tori's day I wanted to accentuate the positive activity Tori has displayed over the last several hours tonight. The last Morphine injection was given to her early this morning so the effects are finally wearing off. She was alert, awake and bright eyed for 45-60 minutes tonight around 8:00pm or so. This is very good to see again as it's been a few days since we have seen this behavior. She is now sleeping very comfortably with only Benadryl in her system. We are going to resist giving her anything stronger as much as we possibly can tonight.

The previous part of the day was unfortunately not as pleasant again... The blood and throat cultures that were taken very early this morning as well as the chest x-ray have thankfully turned up negative for any issues. Tori did however vomit a couple more times again today though they were not nearly as extreme as yesterdays. Tori's main issue at this moment is that she cannot digest any of the feeds they are giving her. When she begins to get agitated and starts to vomit they have to suction out all of the feed she has recieved through her G-Tube. The other real bad part of this equation is that NONE of the drugs taken via her stomach are going into Tori's system... They have now switched over most of the drugs back to go into her PIC line but there are several drugs she is taking that cannot be administered in that fashion. We also believe that the Morphine itself is causing her nausea and vomiting because none of that occurred before she started taking it. So we are now extremely motivated to keep her off the Morphine!! Tori is also losing more weight because of the missed feedings so this just has to be corrected as soon as possible.

We primarily used Haldol today to fight her Myoclonus and Clonus episodes. I think the Botox in her calfs and the extra Baclofen is beginning to work because the episodes were very minor compared to the last few days. But then again the Morphine may have affected that as well... Perhaps tomorrow will be a better indicator.

Kara was kind enough to provide these images. we will be adding the descriptions very soon :-)