There is always damage in cases like these. We have to wait to see how he will react when we lessen the dosage of the medications that are keeping him sedated.

Little by little, he is giving us more signs that he is getting better but he will not wake up for the next day or two.

I want to emphasize that this is a very, very gradual process.

We cannot say he is out of danger.

These are improvements, It is too early to speak about cognitive function.

This was a clear reaction to pain, not a reflex. This sign, together with slight elevation of his blood pressure as a reaction to the pain, are signs of some activity of his brain.

Life for these Jewish gauchos was very hard. They had no tractors, suffered from locusts and made a pittance of a living - so my father went to find work in Rosario, married there and eventually brought the whole family over.

A tracheotomy is not a bad sign because it improves the cleaning of the lungs.