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LJ is moving to new servers next week, and the pygmy goat will have plenty of room to roam.

Dental floss tycoon

LJ is moving to new servers next week, and the pygmy goat will have plenty of room to roam.

Soren update

Signal boosting again, this time from Making Light.

Velma has the main news: "Soren's been accepted to NYU-Rusk! That's the brain rehab place we were hoping he'd get into! (I got the call from the Rusk therapist who'd seen him a couple of days ago, then I called Elise to make sure I wasn't dreaming.)

They're finishing up the paperwork now. I'm not sure when he'll be transferred; it might be as early as tomorrow, or over the weekend.

My bosses are telling me not to hyperventilate."

And elisem reports on most of a day spent with Soren at the hospital:

OK, here's my report from the Scraps' Palace of Recuperation and Fun:

I went in today in the mid-late morning, joining Velma in Scraps' room. It was really, really, REALLY good to see both of them. I hung out there until, oh, not quite six p.m. I guess it was. Many, many things happened today, some of which Velma has filled people in on already, so I'll just tell a few of the others.

Scraps has a rather limited set of words in his magnetic poetry set just now, if you know what I mean. I'm told that this is fairly common after a significant brain injury, actually, and that things improve as more connections are made and vocabulary is broadened. Anyhow, the words he's definitely got in several fonts and sizes at the moment are"time," "yes," "no," and "whatever." He's also got a good supply of "Yes, but..." and a few "No, but..."s. According to one of the nurses, he was using "time" for everything: "time" means lower the bed, "time" means raise the bed, "time" means bring me some juice, and so on. However, he was also definitely making some more complicated phrases at least part of the time. He did tell Velma that time was adjectival; later on, he told me that time is an asterisk. I think he's still looking for the right word(s) there, but he's working on it.

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Soren update

Signal boosting again, this time from Making Light.

Velma has the main news: "Soren's been accepted to NYU-Rusk! That's the brain rehab place we were hoping he'd get into! (I got the call from the Rusk therapist who'd seen him a couple of days ago, then I called Elise to make sure I wasn't dreaming.)

They're finishing up the paperwork now. I'm not sure when he'll be transferred; it might be as early as tomorrow, or over the weekend.

My bosses are telling me not to hyperventilate."

And elisem reports on most of a day spent with Soren at the hospital:

OK, here's my report from the Scraps' Palace of Recuperation and Fun:

I went in today in the mid-late morning, joining Velma in Scraps' room. It was really, really, REALLY good to see both of them. I hung out there until, oh, not quite six p.m. I guess it was. Many, many things happened today, some of which Velma has filled people in on already, so I'll just tell a few of the others.

Scraps has a rather limited set of words in his magnetic poetry set just now, if you know what I mean. I'm told that this is fairly common after a significant brain injury, actually, and that things improve as more connections are made and vocabulary is broadened. Anyhow, the words he's definitely got in several fonts and sizes at the moment are"time," "yes," "no," and "whatever." He's also got a good supply of "Yes, but..." and a few "No, but..."s. According to one of the nurses, he was using "time" for everything: "time" means lower the bed, "time" means raise the bed, "time" means bring me some juice, and so on. However, he was also definitely making some more complicated phrases at least part of the time. He did tell Velma that time was adjectival; later on, he told me that time is an asterisk. I think he's still looking for the right word(s) there, but he's working on it.

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