Sarah Noyes
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2023 1:01 pm
As some of you know, Sarah fell and broke her neck at the C-2 level, on 18MAY. She was placed in a rigid collar due to her age, seventy-seven.
She subsequently fell again on 5JULY, probably exacerbating the original injury.
After five weeks of testing, scanning and obtaining clearance from her cardiologist, she had bone grafts taken from her left iliac crest and spinal fusion of C-1 and C-2 on 25OCT.
The following day she stood and walked fifty-five feet with a rolling walker and Physical Therapy assistance.
That afternoon, she stated, “I cannot lift my right arm “ and, indeed, it was flaccid with zero muscle tone.
Later that day, same thing with the left.
The surgeon stated this was temporary and most likely caused by edema.
She was transferred to a rehab facility on 27OCT.
She spent seventeen days there and could only be moved from bed to wheelchair and back with a Hoyer hydraulic lift.
She had no appreciable improvement and was transferred to a skilled nursing facility.
Two days after that, she was moved back to the hospital due to an urinary tract infection and started on IV ATBX.
She was seen by the on-call neurosurgeon, who, when he viewed both pre and post operative MRI’s, stated she needed urgent reoperation to reduce significant compression on her spinal cord at the site of the previous surgery.
That will be done today.
There are no promises of improvement, only an end to the progressive damage that has been ongoing since probably 26OCT.
As it stands now, Sarah is functionally quadriplegic with no purposeful use of her extremities.
We cannot live in our hillside split level home that we’ve owned since October of 1979, forty-six years.
We covet your prayers.
Be bold in asking for a miracle from our Father.
Thank you all.
She subsequently fell again on 5JULY, probably exacerbating the original injury.
After five weeks of testing, scanning and obtaining clearance from her cardiologist, she had bone grafts taken from her left iliac crest and spinal fusion of C-1 and C-2 on 25OCT.
The following day she stood and walked fifty-five feet with a rolling walker and Physical Therapy assistance.
That afternoon, she stated, “I cannot lift my right arm “ and, indeed, it was flaccid with zero muscle tone.
Later that day, same thing with the left.
The surgeon stated this was temporary and most likely caused by edema.
She was transferred to a rehab facility on 27OCT.
She spent seventeen days there and could only be moved from bed to wheelchair and back with a Hoyer hydraulic lift.
She had no appreciable improvement and was transferred to a skilled nursing facility.
Two days after that, she was moved back to the hospital due to an urinary tract infection and started on IV ATBX.
She was seen by the on-call neurosurgeon, who, when he viewed both pre and post operative MRI’s, stated she needed urgent reoperation to reduce significant compression on her spinal cord at the site of the previous surgery.
That will be done today.
There are no promises of improvement, only an end to the progressive damage that has been ongoing since probably 26OCT.
As it stands now, Sarah is functionally quadriplegic with no purposeful use of her extremities.
We cannot live in our hillside split level home that we’ve owned since October of 1979, forty-six years.
We covet your prayers.
Be bold in asking for a miracle from our Father.
Thank you all.
