New Update:

Here I sit at the Cyber Cafe in RDU. I spent much of yesterday and a bit of this morning with Mom. She is certainly in much better shape than the last time I was here. While she sometimes seems confused, most of the time she seems well aware of what's going on with moments of complete lucidity. She does seem frustrated because she's aware that her thoughts do not always crystalize in the way that she's used to. Over the course of my visits she made some hilarious comments. One of the funniest was when she combined two of her signature phrases,'Let me tell you something' with 'I don't know what to tell you". Strunug together these made for a couple funny moments.

She is eating most of her food and they're hoping to be able to remove her feeding tube soon. After her comments about the quality of lunch yesterday, we brought her a McDonald's Happy Meal last night and even though she had already had dinner, she ate most of it and was happy to have a real Coke (the hospital only has Pepsi which she hates). You should have seen her tear up those french fries! We followed up today by getting her first cup of coffee since this all started. She was quite happy although she did have a conversation with her nurse about how the hospital coffee was certainly not Starbucks!

All in all a very encouraging visit. She's still got a ways to go before she's ready to go back to regular life, but she's really come a long way.

Thanks for your support.

jmx