Progress. Slow but Steady . . .

In the waiting room at Mercy hospital is (L to R) Steve Long (Kathy's brother), Mark Laughlin (our second son), Shirley Jager (Kathy's Mum) and Kathy.  We have spent lots of time in this room as well as in Pam's ICU room as we wait to see how things are going to go.

The past two days have been very encouraging as Pam is now more and more 'self contained' and free from heavy duty drugs that were needed to control blood pressure, from tubes draining fluids and relieving pressure, and many other things.  Pam is still in a coma, but does respond from time to time.  She has opened her eyes, moved both arms, both legs and moved her head up and down as well as side to side in response to questions.  All of this gives us hope that Pam is beginning to recover from this massive brain stem stroke.

We currently believe this recovery will go on for a long period of time, but we don't know yet how much of a recovery to expect.  We are so thankful for so many of you praying for a full recovery, as nothing is too hard for our God!  

As things stand today, we plan to fly out of San Francisco early on the 24th and arrive back in Dublin on the 25th.  We are looking forward to getting home as we miss all our Dublin friends and family.  Kathy and I want to thank everyone for such a tremendous outpouring of love and prayer support!