Update

It seems like it has been a lifetime since the crash, but it has been just 5 days. First, thank you all so much for all your support. We would have been in a real rough spot without the love and selflessness of our friends and family. Again, thank you so much. The phone has been ringing off the hook, and it has been difficult to keep everyone up do date, so I decided a blog will be simplest. If you want to talk to us, please call. This is mainly to be sure that no one is left out of our long list of people to contact.

Most of you know the deal with Jen and Mom's injuries, but here they are again. Jen had some bruising to her face, arms and legs, with a large scrape on her knee. She was knocked unconcious and has severe back pain with somewhat limited mobility. She is awaiting results of a CT scan. Mom, after swerving as best as she could, took the brunt of the impact, emerging with two compound fractures of the femurs, a broken right humerus, broken right thumb, broken right tibia and fibula by the ankle, broken left foot, several broken ribs and a collapsed lung. It is truly unbelievable that she lived. Airbags. Heather and I have really seen the light on car safety and will be selling the Miata. We will replace her car with something like a Subaru Outback. 5 Star crash rating. Gotta have it.

At this point Mom has had her femurs plated and pinned. She will need bone grafts down the road on her left femur. Tomorrow she is scheduled to have the remaining orthopedic surgeries done, which will be the humerus, thumb, ankle and foot. Swelling is a big issue, so the ortho has been waiting until it goes down. She has been running a bit of a fever, but they have her under a cooling blanket and it seems to be under control. She is still on the ventilator so she has been unable to talk. She has woken up and has responded to the nurses, Jennifer, Heather and me, but her sedation is very heavy. There is much to say, but I am tired. I'll post after the surgery. Feel free to leave comments, as I'm sure mom will love to read them when she wakes up from all of this, and Jennifer too as she heals. It just does not seem real.

Take care,

Geoff