[Oe List ...] Sunday, daughter Eva update

[Judi White]

Most uplifting news. I will continue sending images of Eva as a dancing
daughter of Ellie and Carl and a mist amazing woman in her healthy body.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:54 AM Ellie Stock via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Greetings from Pittsburgh where I have spent the last week with our
> daughter, Eva, and her family.
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> Thank you for your emails, cards, calls, thoughts, prayers and lit candles
> since her 12/30 stroke--we are so grateful for all of these expressions of
> love and concern, and we are riding on all of them.
>
> So here's a Sunday update on Eva...
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> Eva continues to improve each day:  strength, mobility, stamina and use of
> left side of her body.  Her leg is fully functional, just a slight balance
> issue.  Her arm, hand and fingers still have some numbness, and function is
> continuing to improve.  The left side of her face has a slight asymetry and
> some words are still slightly slurred.  All in all, however, she has had an
> amazing recovery.  Her first physical and speech therapy sessions were
> Friday, and she did well in both.  Earlier in the week she met with the
> neurosurgeon who was pleased with her progress and rescheduled her surgery
> (endoarterectomy--unclogging 99% blocked right carotid artery) for
> Wednesday, January 22.
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> Eva is able to do a number of things around the house now and sees the
> activity as a form of physical therapy.  We went grocery shopping yesterday
> and today we will go to church.  She just goes slower and needs more rest
> to help her body heal.  But what a difference from two weeks ago!  Next
> week she has a consultation with the stroke dr and has physical,
> occupational and speech therapy sessions.
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> I return to St Louis Monday 1/13 for a week and then fly back to
> Pittsburgh Monday 1/20 before her surgery and stay for another week.  Post
> surgery she will be in ICU a day or two and then return home for a 4-6
> weeks' recovery time.  We will feel better after this surgery is
> successfully completed.  This surgery is necessary to prevent another
> stroke.
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> So, we invite your continued prayers and emails, all of which I have read
> to her.   Some have asked about cards--they may be sent to Eva at her home
> address: 446 Union Avenue; Pittsburgh, PA. 15205.
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> Will keep you updated after surgery.
>
> Grace and peace,
> blessings and love,
>
> Elinor/Ellie/ EJ :)
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