Knowing you have confidence in her and are there to encourage and support her will be very important to her recovery, Dean.

I know I've posted it before,, but can't find it. Briefly, a woman who was in a coma, then ltd. abilities, spent all day in bed or in a chair. Her husband bought a special vhicle to take her for rides and put her driver's license on a bulletin board right by her bed, He visited with her every weekend and after work. A year later, with hard work, his support and encouargement, she walked out of there. Her prognosis at the beginning was a short-lived time in a nursing home, then death. Medically, she should never have progressed the way she did. Even the docs believed it had a LOT to do with how her husband demonstrated his faith in her.

Contrast that to another woman whom I took care of in the same nursing home: she was all alone, Had a stroke in a remote cabin, froze to the floor before found. She had all of her faculties, slight impairment in one arm and trouble speaking, but her medicall prognosis was good with a goal to return home. Six months later she passed away one night, Most of us thought it was due to loneliness and no one to cheer her along the way in Life.

So, don't give up on Judy getting better just yet. It IS early days!**bg**

G'mornin', too.:-)

kat