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8/10

Dad has spent the last 7-8 days getting his infections cleared and two BTM surgeries completed. He was able to be taken off the ventilator today! His breathing and vitals are stable and his team thinks he will have a successful extubation. He is still kind of out of it due to sedation meds he is clearing in his system and being in a medically induced coma for 14 days . He was able to talk, although his voice is hoarse due to intubation tube. He has his sense of humor and was giving us and the nurses a hard time . We hope to see him have more mental clarity in the days to come recovering from the coma and successful wound improvement. Robert’s next step is to have the final grafts in roughly 3-4 weeks . We appreciate all the messages, calls, and prayers. So sorry if we haven’t gotten back to anyone, our total focus has been on our dad; also, Steph’s phone quit and lost a lot of her messages . Due to still being in the Burn ICU and high risk for infection given his condition, he cannot have any other new visitors for the time being. We will definitely provide an update when he is able make calls and talk without tiring out.

-Steph & Mandy

Update 8/3

Sorry for the delay on the update . The last few days have been extremely difficult and hard to provide and update when things were literally changing hour to hour. On Thursday it was confirmed dad had severe pneumonia, sepsis, and wound infection. From Thursday to Friday, the provider informed us each morning that if he were to make it through the next 8 hours would be a miracle and to call family to come. They had us discuss options with palliative care which was extremely difficult conversation, and one we don’t care to have again…. On Saturday and going into Sunday, he was able to clear his severe sepsis with the help of major antibiotic dosing. The surgeon was able to place BTM on his hands and arms Monday. The surgeon will be doing both sides of the legs and stomach on Wednesday. He is currently on the ventilator and his lungs will be the next large hurdle with the fluid and pneumonia in them. The surgeon said ideally would like to get him off the ventilator into the weekend or beginning of next week, if things improve. The final grafts will be 2-3 weeks from the BTM graft followed by weeks of monitoring in the burn unit to make sure it was successful. We are sorry if there is anyone we haven’t gotten back to; We have been so completely overwhelmed because for 2-3 days we thought we were going to lose him. He’s inching closer in the right direction slowly, and we couldn’t be more grateful! He is most definitely not out of the woods yet, but we will take the small wins. Thank you for the calls, donations, texts, and most importantly prayers. We will try to provide updates more regularly . Thank you all from the bottom of our heart!

-Steph & Mandy