Update & Thanks to New Friends...

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Update on Jessica:

Jessica is continuing to achieve her "small steps" towards recovery. Today she will receive a big booster to help alleviate some of her pain and we will move her once again to the reclining chair to try to get her body and brain used to sitting up more and more. She is off of TPN and is trying to eat more types of soft foods - such as mashed potatoes, noodles cut-up, broths with tiny cut-up carrots, and Stage 3 baby foods. She eats small amounts of these foods as tolerated. Small foods = Small steps. She is still experiencing headaches along with the burning pain. One day I will try to blog the complexities of Jessica's illness, as some things are hard to explain, complex to understand and even harder to actually live through.
Also, Dr. Dillman, the ID doctor has finally stopped all IV antibiotics and all cultures are currently negative for infections. As you know, she has been on antibiotics for the past 10 weeks due to infections. The thought is to take her off of them and see if anything develops. Due to an ongoing rash on her face, shoulders and back he has put her on an antibiotic lotion and oral antibiotics. We believe it to be a neuro-dermatitis from the RSD. Her face looks red - as if she has been sitting out in the sun ----- IF ONLY that was true!?! I will keep you posted.

Also, today we welcome back Fern and her friend Kathy from Canada. She is back again for boosters that she can't get in Canada. These boosters for Jessica and for Fern are essential in trying to alleviate the pain from RSD and to allow these patients a chance at moving forward towards a better functioning life. I have also heard from Devon, Justin, Elana, Rachel, Lindsay, Emily - please pray for these fellow RSD coma patients and their recoveries as well.

Special thanks go out once again to my new friend Blanca and her family that are taking care of their family member Olga here on the 8th floor of Hospital San Jose. Blanca, along with Lupita, Raynoldo, Tessi, and others have been so kind to me - they are true angels of God! Two days ago, Raynoldo asked me if I needed anything from the "outside". I asked him to pick me up a bag of coffee for my small coffee machine (Yes - I have a small coffee machine in the hospital room --- I can't live without it!) Well, Raynoldo comes back that same day with not just one bag of coffee - but three bags of coffee - from Starbucks! I thanked him so much by giving him a kiss, as he would not take any money from me! With that, I did what my Italian mother would have done --- I made a few pots of coffee and shared them with my new friends from Mexico! When I got back in the room Jessica asked me what I was doing, so I told her. All she said was:"Mom, even here in Mexico you have a way of making friends!!!"

Also, special thanks go out to Blanca once again. She brought 3 American magazines (People, OK, & Allure) for Jessica to look at and she gave me a present as well. It's a beautiful black caftan with flowers and birds on it. She said she always sees me in my pajamas in the hallway - and so she wanted me to look glamorous for when I walk the halls of the 8th floor of Hospital San Jose! Barbara - my friend from the Union Church had also stopped by with doughnuts and she got to meet my new friends as well. God does work through his people - even here in Monterrey Mexico!

Well, enough blogging for today. Dr. Cantu is due to arrive to give Jessica her booster at 3:00 PM. (That is American time --- in Mexico time it could be more like 5:00 PM!)

Stay well everyone.

To quote two of Jessica's favorite doctors:
Dr. Cantu - Mexico - "Small steps --- huge advances!"
Dr. Liegner - N.Y. - "Where there is life --- there is Hope!"

In God's love, always,
Sarah Gina (Jessica's Mom)*

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