Second Thursday

Yay! Pictures of Mary from today courtesy of Kacee! Love that smile....

And the beautiful hairdo she's sporting.....
As you can see, Mary was able to be wheeled outside today! I'll bet the sunshine never felt so good! Mary also started physical therapy today. Apparently she did quite a bit of stretching, bending, lifting, and even some walking with the help of a walker. My mom said they were pushing her pretty hard and she was able to keep up! She will now be doing this physical therapy twice a day. They also told her she would need to do this for the next 6-9 months....obvioiusly not in the hospital, but on her own.

Mary's donor sites, which are the areas on Mary's body (her back and sides) that they took the skin from to put on her legs, continue to heal nicely. The doctor commented that it took quite a bit of skin to cover those long legs.....he said kind of like doing skin grafts for a giraffe.....that girl is all legs! :)

Although Mary's spirits are great and her skin grafts and donor sites are healing well, her health has been declining the last day or two. Her insides are not quite working normally.....food is not digesting as it should. Because of this, she hasn't been eating or drinking much the last two days. This has caused her to be put back on IV fluids, and she had to have another unit of blood today. We are hoping things get moving in a better direction tomorrow. The next wound care and bandage change is tomorrow. They're hoping to do this without putting her under, but if she isn't feeling better they might have to. Hang in there Mary....we love you!!