{Karlton Bontrager}

This may have been communicated, but somehow it slipped past us. The neurosurgeon has replaced the sections of skull that were removed earlier. So Karlton’s head is whole again. He continues to try to write, sometimes more successfully than others, and keeps one eye (the left one) open a lot. He was able to stand with a lot of assistance, and he still sleeps for long stretches at a time. We in the family have been talking to him on the phone; although he is unable to answer, he does seem to hear and understand what we’re talking about. Mom says his blood pressure tends to go down and he seems to get calmer when we talk to him. He wrote that he wants to watch TV, but at this point they are afraid that it might cause seizures, so no TV yet.