From: Timko, Terry M
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 12:01 PM
Subject: Maura Update - Sept 2nd - Home from the Hospital

Friends and Family,

Sorry to send another email so soon, but many of you have been asking how Maura was doing after the last email (below) so I wanted to share the good news.  Maura’s neurological symptoms have been improving day over day and after a week in the hospital they let her come home.  Sunday she could not walk unassisted and on Tuesday she did stairs w/ supervision.  So a ton of improvement and our prayer is that this continues to the point where she is back to where she was post-surgery, which would mean no permanent brain injury from this or previous treatment related incidents or tumor growth.  She is already doing better than they led me to believe she would ever do.  So huge answer to prayer.

It is really good to have her home.  She is still on high dose steroids and is getting lots of neurological rest, seeing the doctor today and starting outpatient PT and speech therapy.  She did not require the other drug which I mentioned last time.  We will make the call as to how to proceed with the cancer fight in about 10 days.

She is not up for many visitors because she needs her rest and those that we do visit need to make it short.  If you want to visit please email me and I’ll do the best I can to work folks in over the next week or 2.

I’ll still be sending out the more thoughtful post when I get time.  Thank you everyone for all your above and beyond support and continued prayers.

Terry Timko