Hi!
We had a great time in Nauvoo. The boys and all cast members did a superb job in all their performances. Nauvoo is such a wonderful place to visit.
I spent a couple of hours with Jerron Wednesday evening. He is grateful to see well (except peripherally), and says his eyesight gets better every day. I could feel the metal plate in his cheek sticking out the side of his face just below his eye. Also, you can see the eyeball is too low. He cannot close his eyelid all the way, and he has to be careful to keep his eye moist. He feels almost no pain, but he does have movement and feeling—kind of like his face is waking up after dentistry. Even though the doctors have said his jaw lines up and is fine, Jerr has been concerned that he cannot open his jaw very wide.
Jerr saw the surgeons yesterday, and they need to do his surgery over. They are going to wait ten days to give everything a little more time to heal. The first time, they went in just inside his upper lip next to his teeth. This time they will cut him from one ear across the hairline to the other ear and pull the skin down. Sounds awful, but they said they do it a few times every day. His bone structure surgeon expressed confidence in the restructure of his eye socket, but his eye surgeon said that eye sockets are hard to fix. Additional x-rays explained the reason for the jaw restriction—Jerr’s cheekbone was crushed in his face, but the cheekbone from the side of his face to his ear was not. It turns out when the surgeons tightened the screws of the metal plate to this uncrushed part of his cheekbone, they broke it and just discovered that today. Jerr is relieved to know the cause of the trouble with his jaw.
He agreed with me that he is on a roll with the miracles, so it just makes sense they will continue. So, keep up with all those great prayers!
Love, Debra
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