Thank you everybody, I am sure she'd love to make a trek to mt Whitney. Of course for now we'll have to wait. The doctors at Fresno Regional are hopeful she will regain the ability to move her legs after surgery, I just spoke to her twin brother who tells me she is 3 hours into surgery and has about 5 more to go. He hasn't heard anything but as far as he's concerned no news is good news at this point.