I got a very nice message from Laura today.

She is alive, but has had an awful time of it the last couple months, and does not remember large portions of it. She had the surgery, but then had a very bad reaction to the Percocet, which no one realized for a while. Her back was in worse shape than they had thought, and so they essentially rebuilt her back and neck, and she is still waiting to see what results will be in the long run.