More than a kiss

We saw more new things the last 48 hours than just about any period so far. We have been told that when she "comes out of her fog" that it can happen pretty rapidly.

Clare is doing much better on remembering to breath on the ventilator, even when she sleeps. They have backed off one of her pain medications and that has made a big difference. When I walked into the room she turned her head and looked at me. That is new in the last day or so. She is able to better track with her eyes.

I saw physical therapy work with her this morning. Clare was really kind of difficult and wanted to sit up all of the time. That has got to hurt with those rods protruding from her pelvic bones. It was my job to control her left arm. She is very persistent in trying to push and pull and just put that arm everywhere you don't want her to to put it. She knocked the air tube off her trachea 3 times.

When we got her back into bed I was talking to her and she was calm. The therapist was on one side of the bed and I was on the other. I asked Clare if she knew where she was. She nodded her head up and down.! I looked at the therapist and asked if that was a yes. He said, "it sure was." He leaned down and said "Clare are you in pain?" And she shook her head no! We asked her a couple of more questions and she answered them all. This is so much better than the blinking code that neither of us could figure out. The therapist asked her to open her mouth and she did. He told her she could not talk but to "mouth the word HI to your dad." She did!

I asked her if she could see me and she closed one eye, then the other, and back again. She did this over and over as if she was looking out each eye to show me she could do it. I put her glasses on and asked if she could see better. She continued to look through one eye then the other.

This afternoon she smiled twice for Dan when he visited and also gave Kris two kisses. I told Kris it was about time she did something for him. Clare usually does things for others and Kris jokingly says that she will never do anything for him. She did tonight! I am really looking forward to what this week will bring.

The doctors have told us that this time can be violent at times and we have seen that. She is coming out of a very confusing place and she is becoming more aware of what is going on around her. But wow what a 48 hours. She is doing great.

Thank you for your kind thoughts and continued prayers. We feel it and I believe Clare is now feeling it. We have prayed long and hard for a miracle and we are witnessing it happening every day. It has been a very long 5 weeks. But in other ways as I look back it all mushes together because there are so few things/events to gauge time by.