No Acrobatics

Today Mak showed some good signs. For the first time since Friday, he was pretty wakeful for much of the day, and responsive to those of us at his bedside. Dave (Koken), Leah and I saw him using facial expressions, hand gestures, and pulling and pushing our hands to communicate. He moved himself around and did more of the same type of communicating throughout the day, witnessed by Amy and Lorna and Uncle Jim. At one point this afternoon, when the nurses were helping him reposition himself, one of them asked him if he wanted to do acrobatics. He made a face and shook his head no in a definitive manner. Allison, Natalia, Brett, Alex, and Brian had briefer than expected visits because of an ultra sound procedure to check Mak's abdomen.

His respiratory and digestive systems are still trying to fully recover, but there's progress in both those areas. He's not out of the woods and there's no timetable for anything right now, but after the last few days, today was encouraging.