Sister Update.

Things are moving forward slowly but surely with my sister Jennifer. She is just on pain medicine at this point and they have removed all monitoring devices from her head. They did discover that she has a staph infection in her blood but they have a pretty good handle on that with antibiotics and continual testing. She moved her hands and feet on the left side by command only once. She only has pain responses on her right side which essentially means that if they pinch her she pulls back. She has opened her eyes here and there but still is tracking very little. This is how they can tell whether she is starting to become more aware. As one nurse said, "The lights still haven't come on upstairs yet." They are going to start to lower some of the medications so that she can begin to hopefully wake up a little more. That really is the next step in order to determine functioning levels. She is still on a ventilator but she is initiating the breaths rather than it breathing for her. This step forward will more than likely prevent her from getting a tracheotomy but we will know more in a few days. Each day is another tiny step forward and we have been told that based on the severity of her injury she is right on track and showing all signs they are expecting at this point. More to come...