Player Schedules Standings Prob. We all felt this was a big, positive step. Doctors at Sharp Hospital in San Diego, about eight kilometres from Williams' boyhood home, said it is encouraging that he could form a question that indicated he understood what John Henry was telling him, even interrupting before his son could finish the sentence.
Borer continues to act as the family's medical spokesman.
Williams' neurological performance is slower to improve, but that is expected because brain cells are the slowest to recover from the trauma of surgery. Also, doctors said, his muscles atrophied during these months of inactivity. Williams had two strokes in the 1990s. He had a pacemaker implanted in his chest Nov. 6 at Shands Hospital in Florida, where he lives. However, he continued to experience shortness of breath, and it was decided he should go to New York.