Sunday

On Sunday night Mary was in fairly good spirits despite getting some pretty bad news from the doctors. They had removed her bandages earlier in the day, and we were very hopeful that the news would be good. Unfortunately the burns were worse than they had originally thought. Where they originally thought that she had third degree burns just below the knees, it was now apparent that she had third degree burns on about 30% of her body - from thighs to ankles. Anybody who has read anything about burns knows that she is in for a long road of recovery. She will likely be in the burn unit in Salt Lake for over a month, and it will be filled with many surgeries and a lot of pain. And of course, a lifetime of rehabilitation and adjusting to her "new normal." Aside from all this, we are all grateful that she is alive and that the burns were localized to her legs. Her face and vital organs were spared. As Sunday night drew to a close, the doctors were concerned that her feet (which were not burned) were not getting enough blood flow to them. We were informed that they would check them through the night, and if there were signs that they were not getting enough circulation then they would need to make long incisions in her legs - on the outside and inside of both legs, from thigh to ankle. So that night we all focused our prayers on her feet, and her legs not needing to be cut. Through it all, Mary's mom was there at her side, as well as Kyle and his family. She was asleep most of the time, heavily drugged on pain meds, but when she was awake she was in fairly good spirits. She was not able to eat or drink, and had some vomiting, due to getting pain medication every hour. That was the way we ended the day on Sunday.