From Jill,

First of all I would like to say thank you to all of you who were able to donate to Arwen and I in this horrible time of need. Our accident happened just over 5 months ago. Although there has been large amounts of progress things are not good right now. As far as Arwens progress, his brain is functioning very well. He knows who we are and what we do. He remembers all of our friends, family, places we've been... Of course every now and then we still notice glitches. After all he did sustain a traumatic brain injury. He still doesn't have much of a voice due to his traecheostomy, but we do communicate pretty well. As far as movement, he's recently been moving his right arm. Not his fingers yet, but shoulder, elbow and wrist. He's able to raise his arm enough to adjust his glasses on his nose. All of this is great news. Now for not so great. Arwens immune system is not working well. Right now he is in ICU with pneumonia for the 3rd time in 4 months. He's had a very high fever and his white blood cells aren't able to fight the infection. On the 28th he got a blood transfusion to help. The goal we need to work with right now is getting him/us back home to New York. Arwen has been accepted to a facility there. We are waiting for a bed to open up for him. Once we get that call we've got about 4 days to make it there before they pass it on to who's next on the list. We were going to use long distance ground transport, but due to his health and the weather headed back east it seems to be a dangerous idea. We need to fly him home. Now the issue is the cost. Medical air transportation is going to be roughly $20,000. I know we have been receiving donations that have helped us greatly getting through the last 5 months, and I hate to ask for more, but so far there's no other way. Arwen is not getting the care he needs out here and there's only a couple people who can physically help us. In New York we've got family, support system, lots of resources, everything we need. Not to mention our Baby girl is due in about 8 weeks! I have been trying to look into medical foundations and charities so far with no luck. Please help if you can. Also, Arwens birthday is Saturday, January 8th. If we can get people everywhere to donate 1/2 of that days pay it would really add up. Everything counts right now. And unfortunatly were on a pretty tight time budget. I would like to say thank you again. Without the support of our friends and family we wouldn't have been able to make it this far.

Jiji*