Hello all,

Well it's september11th, I do want to start by stating that I'm a full humanatarian and anti-capitalist who believes terrorism is no cure for anything, even if it's a setup...etc...many contraversial comments in my mind about this, got to cut this short. I was in Saudi Arabia working for Saudi ARAMCO on that day, and a US citizen (en engineer from Parsons, an american company) I was talking to said "I must go back to the camp to watch the news", and it was daytime, and I said " what's going on?", and I remember him saying "I cant believe it, they say that 2 commercial planes have hit the world trade center"...I'd like to share my condolences and empathy with you all.

Back to my grandmother...I've spent 2 hours with her and my mom yesterday, that was wednesday night, and I did have to skip my swimming practice in the pool for that, but we had fun...I did made her laugh so many times by trying to eat her fist and then fingers...we made up a game with her and did enjoy it...the most important thing was mom showed me that she accepted the fact that grandma is not fully understanding things we say...I've made her a basic test...asked gradnma simple open your eyes, close your mouth, close your eyes and open your mouth questions...and she could not understand most of the 4x4=16 question test. I just did it to show my mother to be realistic...I'm not saying we have to give up all hopes...but we must look at this the way it is and be happy with now...the moment we are experiencing...my mom said "Cagin, I guess she does not understand, you are right"...that was the first time she said this, and we must embrace that...that's fine, that's now...that may change, and we have our hopes up...everyone has...I told her once again (couldn't hold myself) to be realistic whilst answering people's questions on my grandmother...like, "oh how is she?"...mom answers as "oh she understands everything we say, she knows who we are" ...Naaaahhh...wrong...we must be a little real...come on...anyway, I've advised her to cut off answering those questions by just saying "she looks fine to us, we are hoping she will get better, we dunno if her conciousness is fully back yet"...stop...that should be fine...

Anyway, today grandma has made her trip to the hospital once again, back to where she left on day 10 days...day10, she was discharged from the hospital, and now she's back in, day40...for physical therapy sessions...=)) just talked to mom and my grandma tried to grasp her mobile phone off of her, and I did talk to her...and mom said she smiled when she heard my voice...uncle Nuri was there, younger of grandma's children, aunt Nursun being the eldest...mom in the middle, and my uncle, the youngest of the 3. Mom will stay with her tonite and tomorrow at the hospital. Since grandma can not move...somebody has to clean her diaper, and change her station in bed...I dunno how long grandma will be there, but she will need to be taken care of at the hospital...diaper, position changes...and some morale boost for grandma is required. Again I will be there at lunch times for a 1 hour visit and at some nights to support whoever is staying with her there.

Hope physical therapy can make her use her right leg and hand...I believe she can use her right leg...we'll see what happens...thumbs up! come on grandma Adile...never had to mention her name...=)

Healthy and happy days to you all,

Cheers,

Cagin