November 7, 2005 - Evening

There IS joy in Mudville tonight! This evening as our nurse Heather (her nurse on her first day in the ICU) was talking to our girl (telling her what she was doing) she thought that Amanda was turning her head to listen to her. So she stopped and asked her if she was trying to look at her and our princess nodded her head. Not to be outdone, another nurse Joy (the bringer of the tiara) than asked her to stick out her tongue. She did so. [You can just imagine it can't you?] Unfortunately for us, she was pretty tuckered out by the time Kurt got there for visiting and she wasn't as responsive by that time. But we're all celebrating "purposeful movement" and "responses to commands" and hoping that we'll see it later when she's more rested. We're trying to be cautious since these head injuries seem to move forwards and backwards at a sometimes unpredictable pace and we still don't know the extent of brain injury, but tonight we're going to celebrate this big step and call it an amandericle.