Cristl

In just a couple of days it will have been a month since Cristl fell into a coma. When I heard the news of the emergency trip to the hospital on January 19th, I didn't imagine that a month later the situation would have hardly improved. Two nights ago Cristl was transferred to a rehabilitation/nursing home in Glen Burnie. She is no longer in a coma, but rather in a vegetative state. She opens her eyes, but does not respond or appear to have any recognition of anything. She has sleep/wake cycles, but they are hardly different from one another. The doctors are saying that she has anoxic brain damage which has been caused from a lack of oxygen to the brain. At this point, she is not quite 'rehabilitatable,' but we are all full of hope.