Morning Update from Randy

Just received information from Randy here is the latest:
Carrie made it through the first of two facial surgeries last night. She went in at 4:30 pm and came out about 10:00 pm. Randy did not get to see her last night (as she was still in recovery at midnight) but he was here by 5:15 am. The Dr called him and said he fixed her forehead (eliminated the rear wall of the skull and the sinus cavities on the forehead, and added a metal plate), her cheek (3 fractures there on right cheek), and repaired the lining of the brain at the base of the skull, where the lower fracture is. It is due to God ( and his miracles) that she came through this with no brain injuries. They will perform surgery next week to repair the lower orbital eye socket, While they were doing the cranial reconstruction, the ortho doctors changed her vacuum dressings on her feet and ankles and said there was no sign of infection and no sign of dead tissue. PRAISE GOD!

She is lucid and talked to Randy when he got there this morning. They had to put a feeding tube in her last night as she has not been able to eat, nor has eaten since Friday. So, once she get the nutrients she needs, Randy expects recovery to speed up. Her black eyes are going away, and they indicated they might take the stitches out of her right eye today. The eye doc examined her eyes in detail yesterday afternoon, and could find no problems. She was able to read out of the right eye, but cannot swivel it yet due to the orbital fracture, which will be fixed next week.

So at this time, there should not be any more surgeries until next Tuesday, when they finish the eye socket reconstruction. They will take her into the OR every two days to change her vacuum dressings on her legs and clean up anything around the ankles.