I don't have alot of new information on Grandma, but here is as much of an update as I can give:

Grandma has been moved from the hospital to a nursing home. Aunt *B* still believes Grandma isn't "in there". Her eyes are "black holes" as she put it and she believes the hand squeezes are random.

Dad is going to fly back to see her next weekend, and luckily *B* will be in Florida during that time. Dad will be able to spend some time with Grandma alone, and he plans on seeing if he can get any planned responses from her.

She is suffering from aphasia, so I am going to see if I can locate some of Patrick's early communication boards and fax them to my Dad to take with him. I am pretty sure she isn't recieving any speech therapy at this time, so I doubt she has ANY tools to help her communicate. Unfortunately, when we moved out here I threw away alot of stuff Patrick no longer needed rather than move it across the country. Hopefully I can dig up something useful. If anyone knows a website where I could get some communication boards or anything else, feel free to let me know just in case I can't find our old ones. Wish us luck!

Kristen