Thursday, February 26, 2009

More Surgeries Ahead

Update via Randy

She is scheduled for surgery on her forehead today and they will piggyback that with one on her feet as well. She is lucid this morning, but keeps her eyes closed a lot.

Probably have another surgery on feet Saturday, and then surgery on the eye socket next Tuesday, followed by more on her feet. Today they are removing the back wall of the forehead (there are two layers of bone in which the sinus cavity is in between). The back wall is so shattered they cannot fathom putting it back together, so they will remove all the fragments they can find and put a metal plate in the front to hold those front pieces together. They will remove the sinus linings as well, so she will not have a sinus up there. They indicated the brain would grow forward and fill in the vacated area. The biggest concern and area we need to really pray about is that she does not get infection in the feet. There are baseball size areas around the inner anklebone that has no skin. She sleeps most of the time away, but they say this is the brain protecting her. She does have short term memory loss which the Drs indicated will come back.

5 comments:

  1. To Carrie-If the tears of your friends could make you heal, you'd be well in an instant--hang in there Carrie. We all love you!

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  2. Carrie and family- We are with you in prayer through it all.
    Love, Shelly Spence

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  3. Thanking God for her successes so far. Take care Randy.

    Daphne and Mike

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  4. To the Brook Family
    We just wanted to let you know that you are in our thoughts and prayers. If we can do anything let us know.
    The Dinges Family

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  5. The Nilsson's (Jon, Alisa, Britnee, and Shantel) are holding Carrie, Randy and family in our thoughts and prayers. Keep believing and fight hard!!

    Love, Jon and Lisa

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