September 21, 2008 –
Update on Uncle Jerr—
He had his second surgery almost two weeks ago which took about 11 hours—from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.. You can imagine—Aunt Mel was freaking out wondering what was taking so long—what could be going wrong?! The surgeons redid everything—taking a piece of his skull to rebuild bone and a tissue sample from the roof of his mouth for collagen to keep tissue from attaching to the metal plate (happened after last surgery). Poor Uncle Jerr—his head felt like it was in a vice.
It’s now a waiting game—the surgeons are still waiting for the swelling to go down to see how successful the surgery was. It’s interesting—they raise the eye higher than it needs to be to overcompensate—it should naturally drop down to normal level—last time, they overcompensated, and it was too high. So, keep up the prayers—for Jerr and for Jenna! (Jenna—we would all like an update on you! We’re so happy you got to go HOME!
Love to all, Aunt Deb
