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175 posted on 11/19/2004 6:02:54 PM PST by mystery-ak (Please pray for Maj Tammy Duckworth)
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Tammy is in ICU and will be there for several more weeks. She is heavily sedated and periodically fights through the sedation and opens her eyes, her mother is there with her. Her color, temp and heart rate has returned to normal but is being kept on a breathing tube as she will have surgeries about every other day to repair her legs. Next week the doctors are going to begin to rebuild the bones in her arm. They are using new cutting edge equipment which has recently passed some clinical/prototypical type testing, in fact, Tammy will be the first they have used this on. She is getting a viable blood supply to her arm, but the nerve bundles have been greatly damaged.

Barring any infection, the wonderful doctors assure us she will survive. One thing that saved her life was her body armor, she had no internal injuries...amazing!

Once again, thank you all for your prayers.

Mike1sg

176 posted on 11/19/2004 6:59:42 PM PST by mystery-ak (Please pray for Maj Tammy Duckworth)
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