Kaylee Update from Donna Morris

[Adger Smith]

This is from Donna Morris on 5/10/07


I went to see Kaylee last Friday and what a difference 2 weeks have made. When I seen her the last time her eyes seemed kind of cloudy and drowsy. Now they are fully open and the whites of her eyes are completely clear. Cindy said she sometimes responds to her or Chad if they ask her to move. She said she gets pretty ticked off at the physical therapists when they work on her. She said she gets red faced, grits her teeth and when they try to move her arms or legs she stiffens out trying to make them quit. She said it was just her being Kaylee and not wanting to be messed with. I saw her move both arms, hands and legs. I spoke to her and said her Mom had painted her toenails and she looked down as if maybe trying to see them. They did surgery on her Tuesday to place a shunt in her head and remove a temporary drain. This will just be to relieve any pressure if fluid trys to build up again on her brain. They want to move her to rehab as soon as she has healed enough from the surgery. She still has the trach tube so she can't make sounds. Speech Therapists are coming in now using something to see if she can make sounds.
They had a benefit race in Chandler IN last Saturday and they raised $5300.00.

Adger Smith