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This is cut and paste from other updates--I just don't have it in me to re-type it all!

This is from yesterday:

The first wrist surgery was done early Friday morning-all 6 hours of it! The ortho said on a scale of one to ten it is a 15. She's not seen many worse than this one. He basically switched around his radius and ulna and so they pinned one and put in a 'fixator' to keep it all open until he heals some and they can see how best to proceed. He most likely will not be able to rotate his hand anymore. The elbow is not broken-whew. The pelvis--broken at the sacral joint and both acetabulum are broken. The gash on his face is sewn and will heal-but scar.

From my trip to Philly today:

Marty has a fever-they haven't done cultures yet to know why--he's already on vancomycin, so I don't know what is up there, and neither do they.

His O2 sats are staying below 90 and they aren't able to get them up. This could be two things--a bruised lung (he has a huge bruise just under his right ribs, and may have bruised the lung, too) OR blood clots-since he is prone to those. I gave them Marty's regular Dr's # and told them that he treated the last blood clot and ran every test known to man to see WHY it developed to start with. They had a call in to them when I left. They need to know about the clotting since they want to put an IV line in Marty's chest. They can't do his neck since he is still in a brace because of the ventilator and stomach pump (which just goes hand-in-hand with being intubated since you would aspirate more easily then).

They can't do the pelvic surgery until he is stable-and that's just not happening.

He is still fairly non-responsive, he's on heavy drugs--Ativan and Fentanyl (which is like morphine to the Nth)--so he will slowly turn his head, but not always, and won't open his eyes. When the nurse does dressing changes, etc. she is able to get him to squeeze her hand in response to questions, but nothing beyond that, yet. They don't really want him more aware at this point anyway.

They shaved his moustache so they were able to tape his lines down better, and he looks so different. The only response I could get from him was his respirations increasing when I would talk to him, which would cause his O2 to fall, so I just shut up and sat there--lost.

I uploaded photos to WalMart of the kids and put one in a frame and others in a book so he can see them when he is able and in case he 'comes out of it' when I'm not there.

I'm tired-I will go back down tomorrow-the ortho resident was in ER and then OR immediately so I couldn't see the films and the social services was out so I couldn't ask about financial stuff--all tomorrow, I hope.

All done rambling-my brain is a tad funky today-it's all catching up a bit after the initial shock kept my feelings at bay.

So, please pray--more--that this fever will go away and his lungs will get better and they can do this surgery on his pelvis that so badly needs to be done.