[Magdalen] Alice update

[Ginga Wilder]

What a journey!  May Alice continue to improve.

Ginga

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:16 AM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, I heard last night that, after nearly a month in a coma, my friend
> Alice inexplicably woke up yesterday, smiled, was able to answer a few
> questions!
>
> Just the night before, I had spent an hour on the phone, discussing
> possible options, since she had a feeding tube and a trach collar and was
> still unresponsive. The hospital was planning to discharge her thto a
> nursing facility that would accept her. The conversations had come around
> to things like discontinuing feeding, consulting Hospice, getting more
> information about her level of brain function and realistic expectations
> for her waking up. When I had visited her last Friday, she was still
> totally unresponsive. Her four children had never actually sat down
> together to talk about options.
>
> So the plan now is to keep her in the hospital and see if she can be
> weaned from the feeding tube, because that will allow many more options for
> placement in a nursing facility.
>
> I’m anxious to see her, but I’ll wait till next week, since I’m sure
> she’ll be bombarded with visitors for the next few days.
>
> Miracle? It does seem like it!
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