Eleven down one to go.

I just got back from spending the evening with Clare. When I got to the hospital, Nathan was there helping Clare eat dinner. She ate just about the best I have seen her eat. She also talked with us non-stop for several hours. Clare has a lot of questions which we did our best to answer. She wanted to know about her injuries, Kris's injuries, and kept asking if anyone had been to see her. I told her of the many people that had come to visit her over the last 13 weeks and some of the things they had said. Many of her memories that she can now recall are within the last week or two and she is trying to recreate the big memory gap that she now realizes she has. It bothers her. She is creating more and more bits and pieces of memory that is helping her know what is going on.

Today she answered correctly what city she was in. That question has frequently stumped her. Today she said, "I tell them I am in Fillmore but I am in Provo." Her fine motor skills are improving and I can make out many of the letters in her signature. Today is 11 weeks since her pelvis was set back into place. One more week and she will be allowed to put pressure on her right leg. I really want to see how much strength she has in her right side and what she can do once the restrictions are lifted.

We are hopeful that Clare has progressed enough that we can get a day pass to bring her home for Thanksgiving. If she is allowed to leave, we will have a small Thanksgiving dinner at home and then take her back to the hospital. We hope we can do this and it will also give us a real good idea of what to prepare for when she is eventually released from the hospital. We think she can do it, but we really don't know what her true condition is away from the structured world that she has lived in for so long.