Thanks for the news on Carrie's condition. I'll keep praying for a speedy recovery.
Prior updates are at posts 88, 119, 191, 245, 295, and 356
Carrie's Aunt D called this morning after talking with Carrie's mom at the hospital. She said the doctors decided it was too early to bring Carrie out of the induced coma. Her cranial pressure is at 13 and it varies. It ought to stabilize better. If it should get to 20, the family has to get out of the way, so we need it stabilized. It has been at 10, or even 8, and sometimes 14. They also want the swelling down enough to identify where they marked for the surgery.Carrie will have another CT scan today. They will check on everything, and maybe check on a couple of blood clots -- which they didn't seem too concerned about the other day.
(Sister) L had planned to go home today, but she is going to stay longer. She needs to be there.
L wrote this a.m. that Carrie had a good night. That's good. We keep them in our thoughts and prayers. Love, [my aunt and uncle]
[This regards talking to Carrie in her coma, speaking life and positive words to her, and canceling negative things spoken about her and in her hearing. I was very glad to see this.]The doctors have commented several times that the situation is very grave and that we shouldn’t expect Caroline to survive.
We have been praying that those words wouldn’t find fertile soil. Please join in that renunciation – we certainly appreciate the doctor’s position in curtailing any false hopes- however – our hope in the Author of life, our risen Lord Jesus, is not false.
We just don’t want to accept words that don’t speak to life for Caroline.