Day + 6

Several orders of business

The blog is not private yet. Obviously. Due to a limit that Blogger puts on how many private readers we can have, we'll be switching domains soon. The new address will be posted here at this site and also e-mailed to all those who have already requested to be a reader. Sorry for the delay! An unexpected glitch.

We have an address to which you can mail get well CARDS to the Crane family.

500 W. Harbor Dr.#1002

San Diego, CA 92101

Please note: this is just a mailing address, not a location. You will not find the Cranes here! The hospital will not allow balloons or flowers etc. in the hospital rooms at this point. Please just send cards & letters.

CURRENT INFORMATION:
Greg: Successfully came out of surgery yesterday. He had his shoulder and tibia repaired and set. He has pins and rods pretty much from the top of his shoulder all the way down to his feet. The outer rods will be removed after the bones heal, athough those internal screws and rods will be in there permanently. As a reminder, although for the average person, imagining having unset bones for a long period of time (like 6 days) seems strange. Greg had to be stable enough to have the surgeries, addressing the most severe & dangerous breaks first, the femur and then the other things are addressed.

Summer: Great news for Summer today, they are talking about extubating her within the next couple of days. That means she'll be starting to breath on her own again. This is a huge accomplishment. She will also in the next 48-72 hours be taken off her "coma meds" to help her come out of the medically induced coma. This means also that her "brain pressure gauge" will also come out. She will most likely not just wake up because she's also on a significant amount of pain medication. She will have moments of being awake and then quickly going back to sleep. It will be a process, but definitely a step in the right direction.

Tia: More good news for you, Tia was examined by the "burn doctors" and he said that her burns were not severe enough to need to come to the burn unit. That's great! Her burns are considered mild second degree burns on a large portion of her body, the most severe being on her backside. As far as the doctors are concerned her scaring will be very minimal. It may seem like these burns are a major item, however, as with the case with all of those involved, the primary goal is to get the patient stable, address those critical injuries, and then move onto the less severe. Those less severe injuries are not left unattended, but the repairs may come a little later.