June 30, 2005 (by Greg)

The last couple of days have been much better. Alicia walked around the room and even down the hall today. She found that she actually likes to sit up in the chair instead of laying down in bed, so most of today was spent sitting in a chair. She is able to get up out of the chair by herself and is much farther along than she thought she would be at this point. She is also starting to get use of her left arm again. She has been able to use it to turn the channels on the television which is a vast improvement over not even being able to move it on Tuesday. It helped a lot when they moved the IV from her left arm to her port.
She also had her first visitors others than me and Mom or Dad. Jeff from church stopped by first thing in the morning. Amy (and Stephen) and Denise from work stopped by later in the day. She is in room #4903 at Barnes-Jewish hospital.
Alicia is well loved at the hospital and even has a new nickname: "Sexy Lady Alice" given to her by one of the techs named Sondra. She will be released from the hospital tomorrow after 5pm.
She just wants to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers for her at this tough time.