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"Where is he?" asked the woman, in a hushed voice. She had stopped by to see how that unfortunate young man with the massive head trauma was faring. "Oh," said Nancy, "he's over there on his bed doing his algebra homework and writing paragraphs for his English class."

Can you believe it?

Nancy told me today that Wiley has been doing homework the last few days that had been sent home by his school. In fact, she said, she'd already caught him Tom Sawyering it. His teacher had asked him to write down each of the medications he was on, and what for. "Well," he argued, "not even the nurses know everything I'm on. I just asked [nurse] Maureen to find out for me and write it all down!"

His ophthalmologist came to check him out yesterday and also declared Wiley an extraordinary anomaly. He's definitely got some vision impairment, but especially on the left. There, he has problems in the middle and lower zone. But the doc said that there are 4 muscles that control the ability to see that area, and that 3 of Wiley's are intact -- given him very good prospects to recover that vision. "I've never seen anything like it."

On the Nancy front, she proudly announced today that she had showered AND WASHED HER OWN HAIR. Yes, this is a major development, you may clap.