I just wanted to do a quick update before I go back and read all the posts that I am sure are wonderful and supportive. I just wanted to thank all of you up front for your generosity with your donations and with your prayers and sharing of her gofundme. Continued sharing is greatly appreciated at this point in time.

Now for the update:

Unfortunately, I am back to needing prayers again for my daughter. She had her first appointment this morning with her brachial plexus expert and we got some bad news. He reviewed the findings of the MRI taken at Wesley at it now appears that there is a severed nerve in her shoulder as well.

She has no ability to use the shoulder and we had just thought it was the swelling/brachial plexus nerve issues causing problems with the shoulder.

She is scheduled for surgery at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. At this time he just doesn't know what kind of function could be returned to the shoulder area until he gets in and takes look. The plan is to take a nerve from her leg and transplant it to the shoulder nerve. He is speaking with the plastic surgeon today to see if he can complete the ear reconstruction tomorrow morning while she is under for the shoulder. She has her appointment with him this afternoon and we should know more about the ear then. She will be in the hospital for a minimum of 1 day following surgery. Hopefully, that will be all.

With regard to the brachial plexus injury that is causing the issues with the lower arm/hand, he does believe she may very well have full return of function to the hand after 9 months to a year of physical therapy. He does think her hand progress since surgery (editing to say this should have said since her release) has been a good indicator.

She was pretty inconsolable after the appointment this morning.

Also, the local news (KAKE) has reached out to me this morning in response to my GoFundMe and was wanting to do an interview with my daughter and I, but we turned it down at this point in time because she was just so upset and didn't want to be in the spotlight at this moment in time. The reporter understood and maybe once things are looking up again, we can go ahead and do the interview.

EDIT: Sorry guys about that typo there. I just haven't been sleeping good since this incident. I laid in bed a good 4 hours last night before I fell asleep.