Emily's therapists triple-teamed her between 9 - 11 yesterday morning, so she was pretty tired the rest of the day. Her neck is getting much, much stronger and she's starting to show some really positive startle reactions. Her visual tracking continues to just get better and better - the picture of Sora that Brendan sent her has helped a lot with that. Now that the vent is gone and as her neck gets stronger, we can start getting her out of her room - either to the gym at the hospital for PT or even outside. I know she'd love that.

Yesterday afternoon while Ken and I were at Hannah's volleyball game (they won decisively and move on to a final match Friday night at St. Thomas Moore (Highlands Ranch during rush hour - it just gets better and better)), Uncle Gary stayed with Emily. Gary is currently doing a graduate program with Boston University which has him studying algebra. He told me he was sitting next to Emily working on his homework, looked up and Emily was completely focused on his math work. Not just glancing over, but leaning over and engrossed. His theory was she couldn't believe it was taking him so long to work out the problem.

Sorry she was sleepy when everyone else visited last night - I'm thinking of switching Steve's visiting hours to her low-stim periods - it will help her rest and ensure she's awake for the rest of her visitors!

I think they're planning to "expand" her diet a bit more this week with some other pureed foods. I think anything soft in small quantities is pretty much okay. I'm thinking of bringing her a smoothie this weekend.

Her Speech Therapist suggested that if her friends can't get by to visit her that it would be really good if you could call. She thought just hearing friends' voices would be really good for her - just a few minutes, babbling is fine. The phone number for the hospital is (303) 331-5420 and she's in room 422.

Her case manager from Craig is coming to see her today and I've been told they'll have a bed for her at Craig next week. I think we need to keep her busier on the weekends when she doesn't have therapy. So for her last weekend at Kindred - please stop by and help, I'm afraid I'm getting boring.