Hey its Cortney again. I feel obligated to keeping everyone informed on Hollys progress. As you have read Holly has a new challenge, skin melanoma, although the doctor feels it is already gone following removal of two moles, he wants to get the proper margins away from where the moles were. So she sees a plastic surgeon this Tues to get that done. More surgery...

Back to the brain, wow what progress she has made. I think almost all of the side effects are lessening. Her strength is not 100% but is much better, I would guess it is 80% or so, but she really pushes herself and seems to handle it the next day. In the last week we went to Sea World (only for a few hours) to meet some old friends, I worked everyday all day while she cared for the kids, Holly cooked, drove, and planned and executed a birthday party for Sydney and baked an incredible cake. The party was today and I sat back and watched the old Holly acting as if there had been no annie or brain surgery entertaining the room of children, I took a moment and thanked God, the old Holly is almost back. She has really been doing well. The time period for Holly to feel noticeably better occurred during the eighth week post-op. She still has improvement to come before she will be walking miles and going to the gym and scuba diving etc., but the strain to accomplish the basic daily activities is much less. Her mind appears to be clearing and the memory issues are vanishing. She still gets headaches and nerve shots every so often but they are better. The weird brain overloads have not occurred in crowds and driving, at least that she has told me. Overall the eighth week showed lots of improvement and a return to more normal life. As always, Thank you God!!!