From cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Sat Mar 21 09:45:19 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Sat, 21 Mar 92 09:44 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA17660; Sat, 21 Mar 92 09:35:15 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA27668; Sat, 21 Mar 92 02:38:49 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA28175; Sat, 21 Mar 92 02:02:30 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA24946; Sat, 21 Mar 92 01:56:53 EST Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA21249; Sat, 21 Mar 92 01:42:42 -0500 Message-Id: <9203210642.AA21249@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9359; Sat, 21 Mar 92 01:42:16 EST Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf012) id 3944; Sat, 21 Mar 92 01:41:15 EST Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1992 01:20:40 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Athelstan update X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-Cc: glenn@bessel.umd.edu To: John Cowan Status: RO It seems very slow to those of us here, and probably to all of you as well, but Athelstan seems to be making rather significant and perhaps even rapid recovery progress. I haven't seen him in over a week, but I finally got a report from one of the others who visit him (his roommate Liz). Apparently he is now fully conscious, "level 4" on the Rancho scale, as of last Tuesday or so. This means that he is awake, aware, but is veryu agitated and confiused. He has no short or long term memory, no awareness of his capabilities or limitations. Thus they have to keep him restarined so he doesn't hurt himself. But he clearly understands what people say to him, and tries to respond. Unfortunately, particularly slow in his progress has been his speech control. Most of the time when he tries to say things it comes out as unintelligible mumbles - clearly words, which he can and will repeat if asked, but it takes real effort for him to make himself understood. Thus the only intelligible response Liz got in a 20-minute visit was a smile when she jokingly said that she must be deaf since she couldn't understand him. Level 4 is the lowest level of consciousness, and often the hardest to deal w with both for the recovering patient and visitors. Hopefully he will move on as quickly as he has progressed so far (a little more than a week per level). For those not familiar with the Rancho scale, level 8 would be close to fully recovered. There is no expectation that he will reach that level as quickly as he has gotten this far. But as long as Atrhelstan continues to make consiistent progress, it is just a waiting game, if rather a trying one. lojbab