Surgery was this morning.  Unfortunately, there was too much dead or dying tissue to graft this morning, so they cleaned the wound and excised the necrotic tissue.  Carson will remain in the hospital for another week for the wound to repair further and have the graft surgery next Friday. IF ALL GOES WELL, that means no surgeries for the next 6 days. 

The byproduct of today, shooting, miserable, 10 out of 10 nerve pain.   The challenge with nerves, no one really knows how they will respond.  And the downside of pain, it gets old and wears you thin. 

Carson could use some messages of encouragement.  For those of you with his cell phone number, a random “thinking of you”, or “you got this, Huddy” will go a long way when, let’s call it what it is, shit gets hard.  And it’s getting hard. 

For those on Caring Bridge only, he will get the messages here, it will just take a little more time.   We are reading every single one of them. I really mean every single one.   Thank you for your heart, encouragement, strength and belief. 

Our focus over the weekend is pain control.  Nerve block must come out Sunday, and we are all nervous about the pain following the nerve block removal. It's helping with the femur and knee, not nerve pain, but Sunday, we add in the femur and knee. It must come out, they’ve already pushed it further than they wanted. 

Next week we will pursue all potential paths and treatments for restoring function to Carson’s leg over the next two years (This weekend I will write a more technical doc for those interested in what it takes for sciatic nerve repair to create leg function-from my 10 day crash course).  And we will pursue the orthopedic experts to begin consulting on the knee. 

We have amazing humans on this.  Finding every resource and pursuing every possibility-locally, nationally and internationally as needed for all potential treatments, procedures and healing modalities.