#11 Surgery Update

 Sarah's temperature, heart rate and breathing rate came down enough this morning to take her back to the OR for her 11th surgery since the accident happened 11 days ago. 

Surgery today was to clean out her wounds again. This will be the pattern every two days until they are ready to be closed up. Her back surgery is on hold until they are all done with the legs. Today they needed to remove a small amount of unhealthy muscle tissue from her right leg wound. They also checked her gluteus muscles that they had been watching. They didn't look great - both on the right and on the left. This is not the news we wanted to hear. They are going to keep those incisions open with a wound vac on until Wednesday. They will take her back in on Wednesday to look at the gluteus muscles again and reevaluate. We are hoping for healing for these muscles that have been so severely damaged from lack of proper blood flow.

Thank you for joining us in prayer for Sarah's continued healing. Your beautiful thoughts and prayers mean the world to us. 

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  1. TlcdunlapAugust 10, 2020 at 8:49 PM

    💜🙏💜🙏💜🙏

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  2. UnknownAugust 10, 2020 at 8:57 PM

    Strength and love from California...❤️🤟

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  3. Kara ElmoreAugust 10, 2020 at 9:10 PM

    We are praying for that blood flow and for her gluteus muscles to have what they need to be kept. Thank you for letting us be part of this prayer/ for letting us pray for something that really REALLY needs focus. We all need a new focus. And that is Sarah!!!

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  4. CarolAugust 11, 2020 at 10:11 AM

    Praying for blood flow to help those glutes muscles heal. We're very specific in our prayers for both Sarah and Kirk!

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  5. GreenEternalEyesAugust 11, 2020 at 11:22 AM

    We are praying for Sarah, and thank you so much for the updates! She has so many people praying for her and I know there are miracles.

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  6. Bob and Renae LewisAugust 13, 2020 at 8:37 AM

    Praying For Sara and your family. We love you all.

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