After a little setback yesterday, Geri arrived at the hospital this morning to what feels like a miracle: Larry has his memory back. He’s asking the kind of questions you would expect from somebody who wakes up in a hospital, and he’s remembering the answers. He knows the date. The doctors have forewarned us that his cognitive abilities might wax and wane a bit as he continues to recover, but for right now we’re celebrating.

There’s one downside: he’s now very aware of the pain, and he still can’t have any medication other than Tylenol. He reminded us this morning that Tylenol has never worked much for him. Though he doesn’t appear to have spinal chord damage, his legs are hurting  similar to how they did last December, so he’s probably really tweaked his back.

Not surprisingly, Larry seems more concerned about Geri than himself. She told him what a good job his boys have done at taking care of him, to which he replied “they need to be taking care of you.” But even Larry knows Geri well enough to know that taking care of other people is what Mom does best. We’ve all been joking about the fact that she’s filled up her University Hospital frequent diner card (a true fact).

All of us kids and grandkids are headed to a family reunion in Heber for a few days. Larry obviously wishes he could be there, but we’re glad that the reunion brought us all out here (from as far as Switzerland!) to be together for all of this.