Day 49..... Tyler's MRI results are back today. He still has a lot of areas where there is blood in his brain. The brainstem has 2 areas where it appears the tissue has been permanantly affected. Cranial nerve three and ten are definitely invlolved in these areas. Cranial nerve three is involved in the movement of his eyes. This is not involved in his ability to see, it conrols the ability to move his eyes up and down. Cranial nerve 10 has multiple areas that it controls such as his reaction with his heart rate and some of his digestive system. This though does seem to be working somewhat. Tyler is aware he just can not communicate with us. We are working on his finger movement, and some sort of voice so we can establish some sort of communicaion. The doctor is going to try to get another week so they can focus on just that. The doctor feels that cognitively (ability to think and process things) he is further along again it is the fact he can't let us know what he wants to say. We need to focus our prayers on the areas that continue to have blood that needs to be absorbed and that God allows some of his tissue to regenerate so the signals can again get thru and he can speak and eat, and walk, and see. This has been a hard weekend and all the prayers and support are so greatly appreciated. On a happy note he had visitors and he did try hard to respond to them!!!!!! Thanks for taking the time to come visit!!!!!!