Tuesday Evening

Molly had another great day making progress today. Before I tell you about her progress I want to tell you about this hospital. This place is amazing, I have never experienced anything like this place. Besides the tremendous care, cutting edge technology, caring staff, the building itself is unbelievable. It takes over 6 minutes of walking at a good pace to reach the elevators to go to SICU. that does not include the walk from the parking lot to the entrance. And here is the amazing part, that is only about 1/3 - 1/2 of the way through the hospital. There are clinics, childrens hospital, womens hospital, cancer hospital, cardiovascular hosptial and critical care hospital all under one roof. It blows me away every day I walk in. On to Molly. She continues to make progress and the doc's, nurses, and respiratory therapists are pleased if not a little surprised at the great progress. Yesterday she was fitted with hand splints to help keep her muscle tone and prevent her hands and fingers from curling under. Today, they fitted her feet with splints as well to keep her feet from dropping. These are very uncomfortable and frustrating to her, but the will play a big role in her therapy later on so her hands and feet will not diminish to much while in bed. They continue to sedate her and up the pain meds when they do dresssing changes on her legs. She is scheduled to go the the operating room on Thursday to debreed her legs and possibly do some skin graphs. Because of that they did not extabate (take out) the ventilator tube today. They were planning on doing it today, but will wait until after the surgery on Thursday. While I know she was ready because of the tests they ran on her, I am a bit relieved that they are going to wait. This will greatly reduce the chances of them having to put it back in if she does not tolerate the surgery well. Liver function seems to be picking up as do the clearing of her lungs. Praise God for his healing in these areas! She is alos off the dialysis and will only receive the hemo aevery few days until her kidneys "wake up" This could be soon, could be weeks, months or never. Only time will tell about the kidneys, but the nurses have said that after a huge trauma like this sometimes the kidneys take a long time to realize that they need to get back to work. Pray for them to get the message to start working sooner than later :) She continues to be fiesty and moves all over the bed and the nurses and techs have to continually reposition her. In fact, Ron the one tech said she inspired him for an invention, because many patients tryi to get out of bed or pull out tubes the need to be restrained, but Molly is just being Molly, always on the move and is not trying to get out of bed or pulling tubes, he thinks a blow-up tube (kinda like the tubes they use for kids at the bowling alley, and for me if you have ever seen me bowl) to just keep them in the middle of the bed. He said he would send Molly and I some royalties since she gave him the inspiration. We'll see?! They are putting a PIC line in her arm tonight, this will be much more stable for intravenous over a longer period of time then just a regular IV. She is going to have so many holes in her she is going to leak when she finally drinks something. Her arms look like she is a drug addict. (Actually she said taht to me Last Tuesday before they sedated her to put her on the vent) PRAYER NEEDS

• Keep praying for her legs, they are painful and require graphs and surgery.
• Tips of toes and fingertips; that the blood flow will continue and they will recover so they will not require surgery or amputation.
• Kidney function to return.
• Liver function to continue coming back
• Lungs to continue to clear.

God bless you all. Molly and I feel each and every prayer and they are comforting.