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Sunday August 8, 2010

Sorry for the delay this week. Our website has been hit by a spammer and we have over a 1000 unwanted comments on there. Not sure what we are going to do about it but I hear this type of site is easy to hack.

Chloe continues to show us small improvements. She’s still disappointed however. She wanted to be swallowing by now. The good news is that she can swallow some. Dana saw her swallow a big gulp of her own spit while she was half asleep. That says a lot. She is also being encouraged by Steve to try small bites of beans and the like. Residuals didn’t show any success there though. It’s like she can’t swallow if someone, including her, is waiting for it to happen.

Sandy was down this week to pick Colin up and bring him to Canada with her. She looked good and was amazed with what she saw. Chloe is entirely different from when she was here before. So many advances in such a short period of time. Still not fast enough for Chloe though.

She is finally going to be able to try a night away from the house tonight. This will be the first time since leaving the hospital on March 10th. She will be at her dad’s house for about 18 hours. This will be a good trial run for her to see how her comfort level is being away from the security she feels here at the house. Hope for the best for us all.

Right now she is taste testing her Burgerville surprise left by someone yesterday. Ivey is guarding the area with wishful thinking. She actually hovers around the spit cup hoping for seconds of ABC food.

We were hoping Chloe could join us at the concert tonight but she’ll be elsewhere. My concert starts at 6pm at the Portland Christian Center, SW Dosh and Beaverton Hillsdale Highway. Come on out if you would like to hear some great arrangements but a pretty good big band.

Last you heard I believe was when Chloe told the Obama camp, not yet. She still doesn’t want to go to DC until she can swallow. So we are expecting Oct.

Tim and Kathleen are still our food saints. They were able to spend a little time with Chloe this week. She actually held a conversation with them, which is very unusual, as she doesn’t like to talk to anyone other than family yet. Her speech is getting better daily though. Thank you!

Be well,
Ron