Wednesday, Dec. 7th

Margaret continues to get stronger. She's eating well.  She's in a room with a shared TV with her roommate and although it's Spanish TV, Margaret is keeping her eyes open to watch the screen - it is entertaining to try and figure out what is going on!  To the movie group, Margaret's request for a movie is Toy Story 3 - we hear that Buzz Lightyear has a Spanish button and that's how Margaret is going to be when she returns - she's picking up Spanish by osmosis!  Forrest, thanks for the card.  We received it today. It's good to get real mail so I would encourage anyone to send a card to the APO address in one of these first blogs.  Mrs. Magnus, we heard about you from Jeremy and he must have showed us the picture of his classmates holding up their signs saying "We miss you Jeremy" at least 10 times.  He obviously loves going to school and loves his teachers and classmates. I imagine you'll be seeing his new article of clothing today but I won't spoil the surprise here. When we spoke with the neurologist today about how Margaret is doing, he indicated that she is doing very well medically - that if she was a Spaniard, she would shortly be moving to a rehab facility or to home with visits to a rehab clinic.  He didn't have the information he needed to determine when she could fly.  But later in the day, Dr. P., the embassy doctor came by and gave the neurologist some information from the New England Journal of Medicine and he feels she can come home in 7-10 days.  We hope the neurologist agrees when we see him again on Friday. Thursday again is a holiday so it's like things semi-stop at the hospital - no rehab exercises today, duty doctor on instead of neurologist - can be frustrating because I want things just to keep moving.  Patience, patience.....  Please pray for decisions to be made quickly and we have good communication with the travel insurance company so the details of Margaret's transfer back to the US proceed well.  Thank you.