Thursday Night

Hi Everyone, this is Melissa.
Today has been an uplifting day and we will take it!! Dave was taken off his deep sedation at 8am this morning and the Neurosurgeon came around 9:30 for a thorough neurological exam. I stayed in the room to witness the results myself, this is what I saw.
Dave currently has one eye (right) that is a lot worse than the other, that eye took the harder hit.

During exam, his better eye (left) had some minimal dialiation when light was shined in, something that did not happen several days ago. His bad eye still has no reaction to light.

Doc then did an exam where he jerks the head back and forth in a quick motion to see if the eyes will float with the movement. His worse eye had no movement, but his better eye did have some slow movement, showing it was tracking.
Then there was a test where ice cold water was shot into his ear and we had no reaction with either ear.

The last test was for the Doc to agitate his upper chest with hand movement and we all noticed that Dave's left arm had lifted half up along his stomach and his fingers kinda clinched in, as if he was trying to grasp something (positive sign), also new for us to see as he has been flexing his arms outward previously (which was a negative reaction). When this vigorous motion was done on his right side, Daves hand ever so slightly moved.

After the exam, the Doc came to us and said Dave has progressed up the Glacow coma scale to a 5,6-ish, previously a 4!!!

Later this evening around 5:30, they were changing his head dressing and while Brooke was holding his left hand, she noticed that when they were lifting his head to re-wrap it, Dave was agitated and made a slight fist clinching her fingers and slighting drawing it up towards his chest.

These are the small baby steps we've all been praying for and hope they continue. Thank you for your continued prayers, thoughts and support! The outpour of support and love for Dave is being felt and is being appreciated more than you will ever know!!

Much Love!!