Today was another epic day!

Cory's liner fit and he got casted for his temp left leg!!!

I have to take his shoes to Gordan tmw so he can next day air a foot.

His goal is to have Cory bearing weight on his left leg on the tilt table by the end of this week!!!! How awesome and exciting!!!

Cory's liner on his left leg!

Thursday is going to be another long day.

Cory will be going under again for a really good eye exam.

Hopefully they will just be all like, hey its good enough to take the oil out now and do your cornea transplants. Pipe dreams lol

Going to bed I cant think of anything else to update on lol

God Bless Y'all!

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Trying something a little different tonight!

I also forgot to mention that he will be getting 2 sets of glasses one for seeing up close and the other far.

Sorry it took all day to post!

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Today was a pretty awesome day again!

The small switch up in Cory's meds has a huge difference in pain tolerance!

They switched his morphine to methadone.

Which has a longer shelf life in your body.

Let me tell you he only got 2-3 IV's of Dilaudid which is a HUGE improvement in itself.

They are already talking about fitting him with a sleeve to cast him for a socket for a leg! (left)

We are beyond excited about that!!!

Today I was able to get my paper work done for my MMA.

Basically if all goes according to plan I will get paid to be Cory's caretaker since I no longer have a job.

That would be fantastic!

All of his appointments went great today and he worked his little tush off.

This is what tmw will look like for us...

I love that they post these for us every evening so we can plan for the next day.

I get there about 7ish and get him ready for the day. 

(fed and dressed by 8)

looks like he will only get to eat his snack for lunch tmw tho

(they send him a tuna sandwich and Gatorade around 10)

Lunch comes in around noon but he will be missing that tmw

Dinner normal comes anywhere from 5-6 

I get him ready for the night after and leave to do my stuff.

like laundry or gym.

then bed.

busy busy busy bee's

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Today was another great day!

His pain didn't get too far out of control and he only had one small spike.

We started off our morning with PT & OT.

He felt the burn today he stretched some stuff he didn't even know he had.

It was so cute, I pulled a "see I told you this wasn't small stuff and is important" jab lol

He said; "shhhhhhhh lol" 

After he was cleared to do a shower!

Of course we had to cover his right nubby with plastic and his IV area and a washrag for his eyes.

but he really enjoyed it.

I on the other hand got my pants and flip flops got totally drenched.

 But hey... 

My husband smells so fresh and so clean clean! 

Then his new commander, squad leader, and platoon guy visited him.

Then he had a Nero interview.

Then lunch and we PASSED out for a nap lol

missing his RT group apt. ooooppppsss!

Its ok bc they re-scheduled him for tmw.

Tomorrow will be:

7 am Breakfast and get dressed and in his wheelchair

8am Nero tests

10am ish Snack

11-11:30am RT

Noon Lunch

1pm OT

2pm PT

4-5pm Dinner

5-6pm Sheila visit

6-7 pm go back to Fisher House for the night

I really enjoy them posting every night what are schedule will kinda look like the next day.

It really gives me time to think about what I want/need to do or get done.

Once my athletic gear arrives in the mail.

 I will start leaving for the gym at 6pm and wont be back to the fisher house till around 8pm.

I am thinking gym Mon (arms), Wed (abs), & Fri's (legs).

Track on Tue, & Thurs.

Rest days Sat, & Sun.

Sounds like a good plan anyway.

I am really missing home.

I miss my dogs.

I miss my family.

I miss my house.

I miss my friends.

I just miss everything.

I am so thankful I have my older sister and her family here, I just couldn't do this all without her.

The Army can't find us anywhere to stay for free when he becomes and outpatient and goes to the CFI.

If we do the family barracks they will take our BAH.

We need that money to pay for our home in NC.

So that's not an option.

Thankfully my sister has been gracious enough to allow me and Cory to stay with her during recovery.

However, we will need a temp ramp and something small to help get him around the bathroom and someone to deal with the HOA for the ramp. I do not want to make any permanent changes to her home.

Fingers crossed the Army will help with that.

We were told that there is a program that will be build us a handicap home.

of course a bunch of red tape is involved but,

If we could get a fully handicap accessible home that would be amazing.

We would still keep our current home as well because that was my dads and it will stay in the family.

We would have it built back in NC in Roseboro but more in the country thats for sure. 

or it may just be a pipe dream who knows.

Well I took some sleep aid so I am going to hit the sack! 

Night y'all!

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Today was a fantastic day :)

We started the day off with OT.

He got to lift weights.

He got his new temp wheel chair until his custom comes in.

He is more independent now since he can wheel himself sometimes.

However, its more of a bitch to transfer because the wheel is in the way.

We pretty much have transportation down pat now!

Which makes me feel more conformable having now down it a couple of times. 

We had and appointment at CFI today. (Center For Intrepid)

With his orthopedic surgon/CFI Director Dr. Gajewski. (Dr. G)

 He said he is looking AMAZING.

They removed the stitches from the left nub and put a tighter shrinker on.

They removed the bandages on his right nubby and said it was ok to start a shrinker on that one as well!

Shrinkers are light tightening sleeves preparing his nubbys for sockets for his prosthetics.

He would have him at the CFI now if his pain was under control.

Also, he wants him to get vision training here.

Which he really hasn't had much off.

So we need to ask Dr, Epean about that as well as starting to try and find an oral combination that can control his pain better and have the IV as back up in case it doesn't work and it becomes unbearable.

We wont know what will work until we try.

However, what he is taking orally now isn't enough obviously,

since he has to take the IV Dilaudid of 2mg every 2-3 hours to keep the pain down. 

We have got to find a plan. 

Dr. G thinks we might be outpatient in 2 weeks if Cory keeps up they way he has! 

CFI if deff more Cory's style he hates the small steps and is ready to make real strides.

He just doesn't realize that he already is!

Once we get done at Polytrauma, we become outpatient!

We will get to live somewhere together out of a hospital setting and go to CFI 4-5hrs/day.

Which I can't wait for! It's hard sleeping without my hunnybuns!

His right arm is also healed up and waiting on clearance to bear weight in his wrist.

They no longer have to put goop on it! lol

His right nubby is looking SOOOO much better!

His arm decoration lol they call his scars tattooing! Lol

They did so good on lining up the incision.

 Y'all have a blessed night!

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Bad day turned Good.

So I came back to Cory's room after 7 am only to find him in a lot of pain again...

He had been waiting for an hour for pain meds.

He said he slept some and only got waken up once to be given meds.

Which is bad because he was already playing catch up from yesterday.

So it made it worse.

During the day he gets stuff every 2 hours.

Every 3 at night.

He rated at a 10.

That has only happen one other time in the beginning and should not be happening so far into the game now.

I expressed my concerns to his Doctors.

They upped all his meds so he could catch up and get comfortable.

Finally after lunch things seem to finally be getting better.

Thank you Jesus!

His Case Manager from BAMC emailed me informing me she was arranging transportation for his appointment at the CFI with Dr. G to have his left amputation check up on.

We didn't even know about this appointment.

I expressed my concerns with her and she forwarded my email along with the appointment info over to our social worker at Polytrauma (who we LOVE). She did some leg work to find out a time of the appointment.

Cory should and will be sent with his pain meds to keep it under control this time.

I don't foresee this trip being like the last one.

They don't want to deal with me if it is.

I am generally a nice person until it comes to my husband in unneeded pain. 

I mean his pain goal is a 4 for heavens sake!

How in the world that is tolerable to him I'll never understand.

His 4 is like a 7 to me.

Then again I am a wimp lol

After catching up he was able to get his level down to a 3!

AWESOME!

He wanted me to cuddle in bed with him so thats what we did all day and watched/listened to the news.

We got the same nurse tonight and we both instructed her to wake him up every 3 hours.

If I come tomorrow and hear she did anything but...

I will have her job.

The END.

<3

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OMG... today just sucked.

Cory got his meds at 7:45 and we got down to transport and loaded while it was sprinkling.

Arrived at the hospital only to not know what we are suppose to do or where to go since no one told us!

We were late.

Got ran around to 3 different places.

Had to do pre-admittance. (took 3 hours)

Then we were finally able to go to where we were suppose to be.

Same day surgery.

Wait another 3 hours.

by this time he was in so much pain.

They didn't send us with any drugs and basically treated us as outpatient.

They finally took him back and worked on him for about 4 hours.

During this time I go buy a drink, can't open it and literally give myself a blister trying to.

The doctor updates me.

The cornea was thinned completely but not perforated.

They used donor white parts of the eye to wrap around the cornea along with glue and sutures to hold it in place for as long as possible. They would ideally like to keep the oil in for the retina another 2 months. (oil is toxic to corneas) His right eye has sutures sticking out a lot so they removed them and redid them and hopefully they will be less irritating. He has a check up May 1st basically the same thing as today. but in 2 months they should remove the oil, do cornea transplants and a lens repair at a later date.

Then he will hopefully see more.

 So after the doctor updated me on all this he said Cory was in recovering and I could see him soon.

3 hours later...

Someone finally comes in and tells me they forgot about me.

(biting my tongue)

Now NO ONE arranged for us to get back to the polytrauma center!

So they scrambled to do so seeing as its almost 6 pm by now and everyone is closing up.

The guy is down stairs waiting on us so we RUSH.

Cory is half in n out of it still as I try n get his pants on him and he gets into his chair without a slide board.

We roll for it! lol

Made it in time and its raining as we load.

Takes us an hour to get back because we are caught in rush hour.

Cory is in pain.

I am frantic to find him relief.

Make it back, unload in the rain and make a roll for it to the doors.

Come down our hallway and say honey were home!

Our nurses giggle at us.

They hook Cory up with some of his meds, re-wrap his nubbies, and I feed him dinner.

The pain is not going away and only getting worse.

He is playing catch up from all the meds missed today.

Night doctor comes in, we talk, she orders him a little extra for tonight.

another hour passes.

He tells me to go back to the fisher house bc I need rest.

I oblige him.

except I stop and talk to the nurse instead and she finds the new order for more and tells me he is getting all his pain stuff as well so he is about to get hit with all his stuff at once.

I KNOW THIS WILL HELP HIM.

I go back in to tell him (which was only 10 mins later)

He is fucking crying. He wanted me to go so I wouldn't see him cry.

I tell him what I just did and that his nurse is coming with his goodies right now.

He kisses me like 50x while crying.

Hopefully he can sleep now.

To say today was a rough one is an understatement.

This crap can not happen again.

People need to better clarify and give better instructions.

They need to have a better plan in place.

I almost throat punched so many people today.

One older lady in the waiting room was too cute and made waiting bearable for me.

another lady pissed me off  because she talked about how some solider was late and bumped her dad back.

and that they found more wrong with his eye than anticipated. 

Yea, I spoke up.

Thank would be my husband your talking about.

She shut right up.

I proceeded to tell the old woman about his story instead.

Wounded Warrior lady stopped by while we were gone and dropped us off some awesome swag!

Here's some pictures, I'm going to bed.

Breakfast from the Fisher House

more artwork at the Fisher House

I told him to cheese real big LOL representing Lions! lol

His normal smirk smile lol

strapped into the shuttle transport.

This one area had 10 bird nests!

The blister I got from trying to open the green tea.

This waiting room was full at one point...

My Wounded Warrior swag :)

Cory's Wounded Warrior sawg, he got a shirt, shorts, jacket, boxers, socks, cards, keychain & backpack.

Y'all have a blessed night!

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Today was splendid!

I am starting to try and get into a routine here by waking up at 5 am and getting over to Cory by 7 am when his doctor and crew make rounds and then I feed him breakfast. 

Then we have PT (8-9) and OT (9-10).

(Physical Therapy & Occupational Therapy.)

This is just starting out, as time goes by he will get more and more "appointments".

Today he did lots of stretching and leg lifts in different directions. 

They are surprised by how strong he still is!

Of course all I do is gush about how hes a PT stud and makes his 300 score before all this.

He also got to lift some weights today! 

(he was happy about that but not happy about how much he cant lift like before all this)

He did realllllly well!

I AM SO PROUD OF MY HUSBAND!

He can dress himself now with little guidance

(telling him which way is front since hes blind) 

He can transfer to/from his chair by himself with and without a sliding board.

He can get to the potty and back in his chair by himself too!

He is making WAVES I tell you!

Then I feed him Lunch around noon when it comes.

He also had another appointment where he got fitted for a new wheel chair!

The one he is in now is just too difficult and not independent like he wants to be.

So they ordered him a special one and I cant wait to see and show everyone!!!

 Then he relaxes till dinner time around 4 pm and I feed him then.

Of course all through out the day mainly every 2 hours he is getting pain meds and eye drops.

Then they come in and tape up his new schedule for the next day with what his "appointments" are. 

Then we hang out till about 8 pm and I come back to the Fisher House.

Type up my update blog/diary and share any pictures I may have and hit the sac.

:)

He is my motivation!

The daylight picture I promised :)

The fountain outside Fisher House.

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Whew! What a day!

Today we met all of Cory's new doctors and residents.

His physical therapist.

His occupational therapist.

Some of his nurses and nursing assistants.

Today he was able to transfer into his complicated ass wheel chair basically with little guidance.

This wheel chair is of no longer any use to us because he no longer has his foot so it's really too big and bulky and makes things more difficult for him, we are looking forward to a smaller more petite & compact chair.

He was able to also transfer onto and off of the throne today all by himself! 

That was a major short term goal for us and he did it!

SO PROUD OF HIM!

We are still having trouble controlling his pain but I am sure we will get the hang of it at some point or at least find something that works more. We have got to be able to get him off the push IV meds.

Tomorrow we call to find out what time he is needed for his surgery on Thursday.

They will put him under to take the suture out of his left eye, check on the cornea and depending how much its thinned either just suture him back up or do another cornea transplant. However we are trying to hold out on that as long as we can until the oil needs to be removed since its toxic to the cornea. The oil is needed to aid in the repair of the retina and help it heal and needs to stay in as long as possible. When its time to remove the oil they will do another cornea transplant and then possibly a lens transplant at a later date. Then what ever he is able to see is as good as it will get so keep you fingers crossed and pray real hard for at least enough to get by on. Thank You!

Our new social worker walked me over to the new fisher house I will be staying at.

WOW! What an amazing place!

They really make you feel homey at this one and its like they picked this room just for me because it has one of my favorite flowers in it! orchids :)

Best part is I can park over here and just walk across the street and not deal with the crazy parking over there! lol

VA Fisher House (I'll take better pictures of outside tmw during light out)

Sitting room

sitting room

Laundry Room

Laundry Room

Kitchen

Kitchen

Dining room

Artwork

Dining room

Bedroom

Bedroom

Bathroom

Bathroom

Bedroom

Bedroom

Hope you enjoyed the short tour of where I will be staying :)

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We have a couple of more fundraisers going on over at Team Muzzy!

The Lovely Amethyst Alber is holding a Norwex Fundraiser for us.

and

The lovely Kahla Manriquez's Mom made us a quilt to have a Raffle Fundraiser.

Please feel free to find more info at the event links.

Cory's left amputation is doing AMAZING they said.

His left below the knee amputee is healing very nicely.

Looking so good! 

haha he pout faced because I trimmed his beard off lol

They are weening him off the nerve block, however he has been turning them off himself so he kinda already did before they said that they wanted to start lol so the pain doctor was like well lets just turn them off and i'll come back later today and see how you did then we will prob remove them from your leg! :) Now our main focus is trying to get to all oral pain medications so we can get over to the polytrauma center and start his active daily living rehab!

Y'all have a blessed day!

We are doing pretty okay and I think he is looking amazing!



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I can chill with babes in his bed now with no foot in the way! :P lol

His thumb is looking a little better.

Enjoying a Texas drive :)

He got a cool trapeze! 

Nerve block meds that go into the catheters in his leg to help keep it numbish.

no more foot :) He is so much happier without it! We don't have to be so careful anymore. The bandages come off tmw!

The only thing we have been dealing with lately is head aches/migraines and random unexplained phantom pain spikes.

Which BLOWS but he is feeling pretty ok right this sec.

We are hearing that if we can keep his pain under control we might get moved to the polytrama monday but things change so often around here who knows if that's true or not.

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I have so many things in my head right now.. I just kinda need to get them out and vent if that's ok with y'all.

Hunny-Buns is in surgery right now getting his left foot amputated... honesty never in my life would I ever be happy about my husband losing any part of himself let alone help him make the decision. Honestly we are ecstatic and when we say things like that it really takes people aback and frightens them or we kinda get disapproving or confused looks. It's really hard t explain how much better it is for him to just do this now. It will drastically cut down heal time and he will have less pain than if he kept it when he walks. There are double amputees around the world everywhere at this point it really doesn't bother us because I know how strong my husband is inside and out. Rehab will be hard and long BUT this is the part he is most excited about. This is what he considers the easy part. no it obviously is not going to be easy. However it's better then laying in bed all day waiting to heal. He is way too impatient for all that lol

Yes, I will miss my husbands missing parts occasionally. I will miss how he would scratch me up with his TP (inside joke) toes in bed when we cuddle, I will miss seeing his combat boots, I will miss how stinky they get.

odd things I know but they are the things we take for granted and complain about. 

Right now I am missing my husbands eye the most.

This is the hardest part of all for BOTH of us.

He will never be the same again and I have no time to morn that loss.

The color from his eyes are gone.

I don't know if that's something that will ever come back. (Something I need to ask the eye doc)

I loved his eyes so much. They were such a beautiful amber color.

I am afraid he wont get his sight back.

That scares us both the most.

Were not asking for much, honestly just enough to be able to do things with the left one.

Please keep praying for his eyes.

I know that no matter what though we will make things work.

Things no one tells you about... 

is the amount of people you will HAVE to deal with whether you feel like it or not. 

We have Doctors come in for different things at all hours of the day.

There are at least 5 different teams of doctors.

We have nurses come in every hour.

Then you have the military personnel we have to deal with as well.

That's at least 2-6 more people a day.

Which is all great and what not and they mean well and are doing there jobs and all.

BUT...

It is so tiring for BOTH of us.

On top of all of those people, I get a MILLION (exaggerating) phone calls daily.

some I write down to call back and others I save the message.

All these people expect me to remember them, their names, and to be accountable.

I JUST CAN'T.

Simple as that. I can not keep up with the amount of people we deal with. 

My one and only priority is my husband.

If you NEED something. Find a way to get it from someone else.

The only thing I can help with is if I look through the umpteen hundred business cards that various people have given to me. 

Don't talk to me in Military talk and expect me to understand.

My husband is in the Army not me.

TDY, MMA, blah blah blah break it down for me. 

I still don't know nor understand who is suppose to be dealing with what or why.

We need a personal assistant to keep up with all the crap we are trying to keep up with.

To say I am overwhelmed is an overstatement.

So rather I just ignore it all and focus solely on my husband. If the Army needs something bad enough they will nag me for it or find it else where.

I am worried about the future. I have heard so many VA horror stories.

I am worried they will make us PCS here, which is dumb bc all our stuff is back in NC.

All his gear is in NC. The house we OWN is in NC. Our dogs are in NC.

You would think they would make it easy on us and let him go home to turn in all his stuff and check out.

However his new nurse case manager made it sound like he would have to go get his things and bring them here but that's dumb to me and I will fight for what we want. 

She also told me I wouldn't be able to stay with him at the polytrauma center which is a load of BS. Just TRY to keep me away and see what happens. I DARE you.

To say I am tired is a understatement.

To say I miss home is an understatement.

(by home I mean our dogs, our family, our friends, and our house)

People keep saying I need to take care of myself...

They mean well but have you ever been in my shoes???

There is no time for me.

He needs me 24/7.

I consider my me time when I go take a shower these days.

If I sleep away from him  its only slightly more restful because I startle myself awake thinking he needs me.

I can't sleep when I am here because he needs me.

I cant sleep when he sleeps because I'm afraid I wont hear him call me when he needs me.

It's a catch 22.

Last night though was the most sleep we both got though!

The amazing night nurse bundled his meds together at 10pm and didn't come back till 4am with his next set.

We got a blissful 5 hours sleep then another 2 hour spurt.

I FEEL AMAZING LOL

I got to sleep next to him and we both finally slept for the first time!

like realish rested sleep.

I am also having to deal with some other stuff I won't talk about publicly. 

Just know my plate is more then enough full.

I honestly feel like no one knows what I am going through.

What Cory is going through.

People only see so much but they don't know the half of it.

People assume so many things.

Half of which are not true.

I am mad at the Army for not finding out what is wrong. We were told we would be notified when the investigation was over of there findings. I hear its over but have they said anything to us?

No... I want answers.

I feel like they are hiding things.

Sweeping it under the rug.

and

trying to pin it on the guys who where there.

Hell will freeze over before I let that happen.

I have been the perfect little obedient Army wife so far.

Do not piss me off.

I will go to the media and fill them in.

TRY ME.

I want the truth and I will get the truth.

My husbands life has changed forever, following the rules of the Army.

Something needs to be changed dealing with the M777.

This is NOT the first accident nor the last.

This needs to stop.

I am trying my hardest not to name names, but I do not enjoy being lied to my face.

Nor how you treated my mother in law. 

She is immediate family, she pushed her son out of her womb!

I think that's immediate enough don't you? 

I am going to stop now because I am getting too heated.

Anyways...

I can' wait till we move over to the polytrauma center!

Once he learns his ADLS (Active Daily Living Skills) we then get to move to family barracks and do out patient rehab at the CFI (Center For Intrepid)! It will feel like were getting back to normal then. 

I'm so excited!

Then however long it takes from there depends on hunny-buns!

People seemed to be amazed with me...

I can't fathom why though.

I mean honestly to me its just legs.

in the end its just eyes too.

He is Alive and talking to me.

He is himself.

That's what I am about.

That's all I ask for.

I am thankful.

The end.

Thanks for allowing me to vent.

God Bless Ya'll

<3

Pictures of Cory's Journey so far. (VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED, GRAPHIC CONTENT)

Cory and I have decided to share the pictures I have from the beginning of his journey to the current. We will continue to share along the way. I am not going to retell the whole story as you can find and follow on his official Facebook page Team Muzzy. On his page you can find updates and fundraisers. WARNING SOME OF THE PICTURES ARE GRAPHIC IN NATURE, VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. The pictures are some what out of order too so make sure to read the captions! My husband is a 13Bravo (Field Artillery/Cannon Crew member) The M777 blew him up in a training accident at Ft. Bragg, killed one, seriously injured another, and 5 others suffered what they consider minor injuries.  Not to mention how traumatized those who where there or work with him are.  Please if you have any questions, concerns, comments, advice, etc please don't be shy! Contact us! :) 

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Feb. 21st. Just got to Duke, after Cory was transferred from Womack. He was in surgery till 4am.

I had been at Womack since 5am and made it to Duke by 5pm.

Duke 3rd floor surgery waiting area.

In Cory's ICU on 6th floor 6 west. We had to wear protection for the first few days.

3rd day in ICU.

I started writing about everything but have become so busy that it quickly ended.

First photo of Cory, 5 days later. I know he looks bad but believe me when I tell you he looks 10x better then when I first saw him.

proof of me eating to relieve some's worrying about me.

1st photos of his lower extremities. The dark parts are like sucking sponges called wound vacs. The white patch is a pain patch under his knee. 

What was left of his left foot.

We call him Mr. Nubby. Again the dark part is a wound vac. 

The unit sent us flowers.

Yes... I do cry sometimes.

JJ missing me to much.

Side view.

Sleepy pants.

Part of ICU at Duke 6th floor 6 west.

Part of ICU at Duke. 6th floor 6 west.

Craving nothing but Ice Cream.

Thank you Derrick & Krissy!

The chair/bed! This one was more comfy then all the ones I have tried so far. Duke ICU.

The bed/bench/table in ICU at Duke. It was always FREEEEZING in this corner, we used 10 blankets.

The view outside his room in ICU at Duke. It snowed.

The first time his eyes finally opened. He also got a feeding tube down his nose that he hated. 

the nasty grits lol

Stark missing his daddy so much he has no interest in his new bone.

I was crying and Stark came and held my hands and prayed with me.

somewhat cleaned up. oxygen on because they would fall when he slept.

This is a part where they skin graphed and took the skin flap and muscle on his left thigh at Duke.

This is his skin flap on his foot after surgery at Duke.

This is his right shoulder. His right side got a lot of burns, shrapnel, & cuts. I pulled out a few rocks. 

Got to see a therapy dog named Hailey at Duke.

At Duke, I think he is looking better :)

His ears were really grungy and had a ton of dirt in them. 

2nd floor at Duke. This is his skin flap after some healing.

2nd floor at Duke. this is the donor site on his left thigh where they took the skin/muscle flap.

again same as above.

He did not like this "cast"

left foot.

left foot.

left foot.

Do you see the heart shape scar? He doesn't believe me so I took a picture to prove it to him when he can see again.

The first time he got in a wheel chair and outside. at Duke.

Back in his room 2nd floor at Duke he wanted to stay in the wheel chair for a little bit.

fixing him up in the wheel chair.

Outside his room 2329 2nd floor at Duke.

Outside his room 2329 2nd floor at Duke.

His left upper thigh.

The back of his head had a couple of spots of missing hair and the left side was kinda of singed.

Skin graphs on his nubby when it was still wrapped.

Railroad Street Steakhouse threw a fundraiser for Cory and we made a little under $3000.

His magnets & stickers!

The weird statues at the Eye Center at Duke.

Trying out a new cast but not much better he still hates it.

They keep commenting that he pee's a lot... well he drinks a lot too! lol

The skin/muscle donor site for his foot flap on his left thigh.

his right arm after surgery they put a plate and screws in. he also has a bunch of burns and shrapnel.

better picture, the scabs are starting to come off.

had another eye surgery and they are looking better.

eye swelling has gone down.

He is talking on the phone. (specifically to Rodney Harsh at this moment)

Tasha missing her parents (mom & dad) while they took shift at the hospital.

The skin graph is taking really well to Mr. Nubby.

Left thigh donor site doing really well.

foot swelling is going down.

swelling going down.

he prefers no cast and just to have  his foot free floating. 

Eye center gave him some ray bands lol

His head incisions are doing fantastic.

the skin graph sites are doing great too.

They are putting goop on his nubby. The yellow mesh with the scabbed top peels off on its own and under is that read skin where they took skin for his nubby.

head incisions.

The hair is trying to escape out of it!

So I pulled the hair out of the hollow tunnel! it was crazy!

Everyone has supported my frosty habit. they are frosty gods! lol

Mr. Nubby is looking great!

Packing daddies suit case and Re-Re & JJ lay in it. They want to come too. 

Mr. Nubby drying out.

Mr. Nubby :)

get well wishes!

Well wishes :)

Cory got to see a therapy dog names Izzy at Duke.

Room 2329 2nd floor at Duke.

room 2329 2nd floor at Duke

room 2329 2nd floor at Duke

7th floor room 746 at BAMC/SAMMC. Yes that is a no eating yet sign lol I thought it was funny (they forgot to take it down)

His room # & phone #. 

Room 746 floor 7 BAMC/SAMMC bathroom

Floor 7 Room 746 at SAMMC/BAMC

on the plane from NC to TX

on the plane from NC to TX

on the plane from NC to TX

The plane we rode in from NC to TX

The shower at room 2329 2nd floor at Duke

The bathrrom at room 2329 2nd floor at duke

shower at room 2329 2nd floor at duke

bathroom in room 2329 2nd floor at duke

room 2329 2nd floor at Duke

the view from his room at BAMC/SAMMC 7th floor room 746 (the circle building is the intrepid center)

my closet at the fisher house

door handle at the fisher house

bathroom at the fisher house

bathroom at the fisher house

bathroom at the fisher house

my room at the fisher house

room at the fisher house

room at the fisher house

basket at my fisher house room (I put some of the stuff I wont use from my goody bag in it for he next family)

goodies at the fisher house

Misty came to see me at the hospital.

Room 746 at SAMMC/BAMC floor 7

Room 746 at SAMMC/BAMC floor 7

Room 746 at SAMMC/BAMC floor 7

Room 746 at SAMMC/BAMC floor 7

My cheese ball :) Room 746 at SAMMC/BAMC floor 7

His new ride :) 

His arm is healing up nicely 

Nubby is drying out and doing well.

Eyes are doing well too. (hes sleeping lol)

He is happy to see this guy go next week.

his foot is doing well tho

This is half of the reason why we picked to just amputate. Its going to be too hard to walk on this thing.  The healing time would take much longer as well. We are eager to learn and get home asap :)

Thank you for everything everyone has done for us.

I will continue to update VIA Team Muzzy page as well as do update picture blogs along the way. I try to do it more often so its not as long.

sincerely with love The Muzzy's

©Cory & Michelle Muzzy