Logan continues to make small improvements daily; today, the speech pathologist handed him his toothbrush with toothpaste on it and Logan brushed his teeth. He is able to move just about anything on the right side on command (a specific finger, toes, bending and straightening his leg, and other things that he is asked to do) and it seems that something new is added almost every day. He had a few visitors over the past couple of days, Josh and Chris on Tuesday and Tanny on Thursday. They got some pretty good reactions from Logan; he smiled a lot and shook their hands when they extended theirs and some other things. Thanks to all of you. Today was animal therapy day (I don't know what they call it, but people bring a bunch of dogs to TIRR and they interact with the patients), but I'd be willing to bet that Logan is glad when it's over. Amy said that he did throw a ball for a dog to retrieve a couple of times today. They try just about anything to get responses from the patients, which is a really good thing. The tendon lengthening procedure will be pushed back a little in order to try a medicine for spacticity which is injected, rather than taken orally. If the medication is effective, a pump would be placed under the skin in his abdomen which would automatically release the medication. The oral medication for spacticity, (which is a type of muscle relaxer), can cause drowsiness which makes any activity or therapy difficult and less productive. We'll have to see how he responds to the medication and go from there. While we're not looking forward to any more surgical procedures, we're not complaining because the progress that he's made since the plate was put in has been terrific.