One more thing

I love the way you are writing your thoughts addressed to Jan. Jan enjoys listening to them. I imagine this is like contiuing the conversations you have with her when you visit.

Jan continues her progress. Her achievements of today are:

- She is walking with more balance and strength. Today we took a walk without the walker (at her request) around the unit. The nurses were all cheering her, and encouraging to keep up the effort. She enjoyed all the attention.

-From a booklet used by the speech therapist, she showed me a page with the numbres 1 to 10. She read them all in English and French! (with some hesitation in six and seven), then proceeded to the following pages where she could identify most of the parts of the body, traffic signs and other labels.

-Her speech is clearer, but gets garbled in the third or fourth sentence. She mixes words still, but now she is aware that she is making a mistake.

-For the first time, when the nurse asked her: who is this man? Do you know him? She replied: He is my husband. This is a great improvement from the random words used last week.

She is doing great! But please remember that she is just beginning the long process of rehabilitation. Keep up your blogs and visits. God bless.

-Fede