Several reports from Friday and Saturday

Friday July 13
From Jagandananda and Madhumati:

DANDAVATS, we had a good visit with Jatindra Mohan Prabhu and felt very hopeful for his recovery.He seemed very happy and surprised. Divyashakti DiDi was also there and her positive spiritual energy was very enlivening to him as always. She is one of his regular visitors,always trying to give Gurudeva's affection and mercy! He answers some questions with the nodding of his head and the squeezing of his hand. He seemed to understand some of what we were saying because he answered us with his eyebrows, hand squeezes or nodding yes or no some of the time. He was able to hold the Bhagavad-gita for some time in his hand and was looking at it.We read Gita and chanted and he seemed to understand. He seemed frustrated at not being able to talk and when the doctor came in he said the brain injury was in his speech center so his speech is affected, but he did try to talk and form words.The doctor said this was the best he had seen him and was very positive.He asked what we called him ,then the Dr. started to call him Jatindra, and was happy to hear his real name. And said "No wonder he hasn't been responding to me!" The nurse said his prognosis was good. He seemed grateful and cheered by our visit and We are hoping everybody can visit regularly so he feels your love and support, and has some company.
Jagadananda Das and Madhu Mati Devi Dasi

Later that day:
Lilashakti didi and Anantarupa prabhu went in the evening and were happily surprised to see that he was being moved out of ICU. He is now in the main building room M4M 107. That's the main building , 4th floor, room 107.

He is still receiving his blood pressure medicine, a feeding tube through which they are giving him Ensure, a catheter and they have reduced the amount of fluids that he is receiving intravenously.

They stayed until after 10 pm to see him settled in his new room and then went home.

July 14
Well I finally got to go see him today. That hospital is a maze. I think I parked in the farthest possible spot available. I ended up walking past all the back service entrances and finally found a person who directed me through emergency to the main hospital building. I took the wrong elevator and wandered some more and finally found another person who showed me where his room was. Just so you don't make the same mistake I did here's some directions:

Here is how to get to the online map of the hospital campus(the address for the map itself was way too long to copy and paste, half of it got lost when I uploaded it):
Go to
http://www.scvmed.org/portal/site/vmc/
Then
Go to Contact us on the left
Then scroll down to maps and directions click there,
Scroll down until you see campus map. There is an option to download this map if you like underneath it.
Anyway you want to go around the back of the main building park there and go through the lobby. Look for M1 elevator and go to the 4th floor. (Neuro Observation I think) room 107 . Take two rights and ask for room 107.
Please correct me if these instructions are not quite right.

Anyway he was awake when I got there. He seemed to recognize me. He was sweating a lot today and they had just changed his sheets and clothes before I got there to make him more comfortable. He cannot talk yet. They are trying to get him to swallow still but he chokes a little so he is still being fed with a feeding tube. He was very active tried to sit up several times and tried to rip off his restraints but that is why they have him restrained. The nurse gave him something to calm him down and for pain because he was grimacing earlier. I read two chapters of Bhagavad Gita to him. He calmed down and by the time I was finished he was sleeping peacefully.

Swarnangii