Sat 4:40

The doctors have been slowly removing all of the things that have been keeping Bev's body stable for the last 2 weeks. Bev no longer requires blood pressure medicine or pain killer or sodium chloride.  The tent type blanket that was warming her legs has been removed. Today the doctors have removed the special blanket that Bev was laying on that cooled her when her temp went up and warmed her when her temp went down.  Bev is no longer receiving magnesium for her shivers so hopefully the fever is under control.  At 3:30 today the respirator was put on standby mode. Bev is now breathing on her own for awhile as a test to see if she can be removed from the respirator permanently.  In short, Bev's body seems to be on the way to recovery.  Her brain is not recovering at such a quick pace.  The times that Bev does open her eye and seems to understand us are far too few and far too short.  I suppose that this is to be expected given the stroke on the left side of her brain and the damage from the injury to the right side of her brain.  We will all just have to be patient and give her time.