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

[Beret Griffith]

Thank you for the good news Ellie.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 4:04 PM Judi White via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> 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:
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>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> Greetings from Pittsburgh where I have spent the last week with our
>> daughter, Eva, and her family.
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Will keep you updated after surgery.
>>
>> Grace and peace,
>> blessings and love,
>>
>> Elinor/Ellie/ EJ :)
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