Chukka's Tribe

I'm exhausted. This is so hard to take in.

It was hard for us to contact Chukka's friends. My mother doesn't have any contact information. But I knew from Scott's memorial there were some wonderfully supportive people out there if only I could find them. So I finally googled "Scott Lofgren Bounce" and discovered she had a community, just as I'd hoped.

I just want to thank all of you for being out there, and I also want to say, no message is too small. I was talking to someone, and she said "What do you say?" and I said, "You know, it's not the individual messages, it's the number of them," and she said "No, I don't know." And I thought how strange it is, you just get used to it in a way. With all Chukka has had in her life, this really is shocking.

I intend to keep this up to date, as we learn things. They may keep her unconscious for a while. My mother will not get there until Friday. The clinic itself seems very good -- as far as I can make out with my limited German, it's a state-of-art trauma facility that other doctors can come and observe.

I will probably try tomorrow to call the cli