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As Gabe said the arm surgery was successful and Mom was back in her room by yesterday afternoon. The doctors said the the radius bone (inside of the lower arm) was broken in only one spot and the ulna (outside bone of the lower arm) was broken in several places. they placed two plates in to hold the arm together, one on the top side and one on the bottom side. The doctors said that they expected the arm to make a good recovery, and the only adverse effect may be that the bones grow back thicker which would cause her not to be able to fully rotate her wrist.

Mom montioned to write yesterday morning and Dad had her write what she was thinking. Her handwriting was garbled at best for the most part, but she did legibly write "Today?" Dad told her it was Friday. It's good to know that her brain is working, but I am sure she is frustrated because she probably doesn't know a lot about what is going on.

I think today when I see her hopefully she will be responsive and I can ask her some questions. I think we will have to do it cross examination style, with yes/no questions, so that we can get her to make some sort of motion for yes and some sort of motion for no. Then I may try and play some 20 questions to try and figure out what it is she wants to know.

Diana arrived early in the evening last night and I know Mom is happy to have her here. Shel and I got to see her when we arrived, but she was heavily sedated from the surgery and we got no response when we talked to her.