Eating! Reading!

More from Mum:

"Sunday when I arrived she was eating a cup of soup with small noodles. Solid food. I brought her a pear and she ate about a third of it in slices. Later she requested yogurt. She spooned it out herself, no small feat when lying almost flat.'''

"Two doctors on Saturday spoke to Magda, Chukka and me about her condition. Generally positive.

"She is not giving up. Although she cannot see a nurse when she undertakes breathing therapy, and this sense of abandonment has caused panic, she follows the regimen. An hour a day. She also has a little hand-held apparatus to enhance breathing. This is to prevent pneumonia.

"There are two elastic bands at the foot tof the bed. She asks me to give them to her and she uses them for resistence exercise. Sunday she opened a card by herself and read it."