Wednesday, July 1, 2009 3:17 PM, MDT
THE TUBE IS OUT!! WAAAHOOOOOOO!!!!
Came back from lunch & first noticed that they had taken her out of restraints, then we clued in & realized the tube was out too!!! She just sat there w/a little smile.
Those are some gooooood drugs, I'm sure. (As her doc said, "Better living through chemistry.")
Her spirits are even better now that that thing is outta there. Her first words were to ask about Shannon (we had told her earlier today, but she didn't remember - see above re: good drugs) and we reassured her that Shan was okay, had been up for a visit and was now back home, and she nodded and smiled and quietly said, "Kay." We told her about her following, and all the people pulling for her and she got that happy little smile again. She was joking around w/us a little, and making some of her classic Ty faces, and really seems to have "crawled out of the hole" as her doc put it. SO RELIEVED to have our Ty back. Whew!
It's gonna be a very, very long road of recovery, but her spirit and your prayers are really moving her along well.
She's running a little fever, which the doctor said is to be expected given the severity of her skin trauma (they call it "degloved"). That is what is behind the urgent push to get her to CA - to a hospital well-equipped to handle the massive skin damage she's going to have to deal with. Cyn looked at her wounds during dressing change, and told me the damage is very extensive and really will need quite a lot of attention and medical treatment (wound management, extensive skin grafting, etc.) Even aside from all that, her orthopedic surgeon said no weight on the right leg for three months while her pelvis heals.
This afternoon, they're addressing the blood clot potential of her condition by inserting a little "basket" in a major blood vessel near her heart to catch any clots that may be wandering around in there. They can't put her on blood thinners b/c of her skin wounds.
So......she's resting much more comfortably now, thankfully. Keep the good juju coming, and as soon as I know more re: the when & where of her return to CA I'll post it here.
-Jaime