Here is the latest update on Patricia and it looks like she will have a full recovery. Her daughter Sharon wants to thank everyone for their prayers. Ruby Mom is still at Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital, health wise she is getting healthier and no longer needing blood pressure medication or insulin for blood sugar so I'm thrilled about that. Today she was much more alert and seemed to be thinking but not really sure what it was she was thinking about. I drove her truck down to visit her and took her out to the parking lot to see if she would recognize it like she had the day before with my car and as I suspected she did. She seemed pretty happy to have seen her truck. I had to compete with the tv in the room today but managed to still get in a few memory exercises with her, she recognized simple objects and was able to add and subtract simple math. As time goes on she'll advance to more complex problem solving. She remembers things but they are still jumbled up and she's not sure about it, she had a new nurse today and she thought he was someone son she knew, it took some convincing that none of us knew him but she finally understood he was just the nurse. I can see each day she recognizes things a little better. My brother took a electronic photo frame with lots of photos she recognized most of them and told me the names of the people in the photos and her dog Kadee, she wasn't sure about Thorn who is the newest member of our family so it will take a little more time to remember him. The team of doctors and therapists will meet on Tuesday and evaluate her progress since last Thursday and be able to come up with a team approach for her therapy and a tentative discharge date. I feel pretty certain she will recover a good part of her memory but may not recover all of it before coming home, I think once she is at home among her personal items and familiar surroundings she will recover the rest of it. One of the main focuses will be to get her strength up and get her to understand about her day to day activities of taking care of herself. I'm looking forward to her recovery and getting on with life.

Ruby Thank you for posting this - it helps me to review what i have been going thru without knowing all that I should have been told! Ethel ________________________________ From: Ruby Casto <recasto47@frontier.com> To: hcgs@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, February 3, 2013 5:08:13 PM Subject: [HCGS] UPDATE ON PATRICIA VIELLENAVE Here is the latest update on Patricia and it looks like she will have a full recovery. Her daughter Sharon wants to thank everyone for their prayers. Ruby Mom is still at Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital, health wise she is getting healthier and no longer needing blood pressure medication or insulin for blood sugar so I'm thrilled about that. Today she was much more alert and seemed to be thinking but not really sure what it was she was thinking about. I drove her truck down to visit her and took her out to the parking lot to see if she would recognize it like she had the day before with my car and as I suspected she did. She seemed pretty happy to have seen her truck. I had to compete with the tv in the room today but managed to still get in a few memory exercises with her, she recognized simple objects and was able to add and subtract simple math. As time goes on she'll advance to more complex problem solving. She remembers things but they are still jumbled up and she's not sure about it, she had a new nurse today and she thought he was someone son she knew, it took some convincing that none of us knew him but she finally understood he was just the nurse. I can see each day she recognizes things a little better. My brother took a electronic photo frame with lots of photos she recognized most of them and told me the names of the people in the photos and her dog Kadee, she wasn't sure about Thorn who is the newest member of our family so it will take a little more time to remember him. The team of doctors and therapists will meet on Tuesday and evaluate her progress since last Thursday and be able to come up with a team approach for her therapy and a tentative discharge date. I feel pretty certain she will recover a good part of her memory but may not recover all of it before coming home, I think once she is at home among her personal items and familiar surroundings she will recover the rest of it. One of the main focuses will be to get her strength up and get her to understand about her day to day activities of taking care of herself. I'm looking forward to her recovery and getting on with life. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HCGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message