December 8, 2005 - Mid-Morning

The princess has gotten comfy in her new castle. They sat her up in a special chair and gave her a shower yesterday. To our surprise and happiness, (unprompted) she grabbed a wash cloth from one of the bars and gave her face a thorough scrubbing. We can't imagine how long she's wanted to do that or how great it must have felt! She's expected to be in their Observatory area (Baylor's "step-down") for the next week or so while all of her various therapists assess her current status. The therapists will then get together with Kurt next week in one big meeting to discussa rehabilitation plan for her.

She's settled in so well though that we anticipate allowing visitors as early as this weekend. As a general rule, her visiting hours at Baylor are from 6 AM to 9 PM. However, she is scheduled for therapy and rehab between the hours of 9AM and 4PM. (She'll be in therapy for about 4 hours during that time, we just don't know what hours yet.) Once we get the schedule worked out, we'll link to it on this site and people will be able to sign-up or request open visit times. We hope to have a schedule put together by the end of the day and will post it on here as soon as we do; we know everyone is anxious to see her.