Utah Valley Specialty Hospital

It's been two months today since the accident. Butch moved to the Utah Valley Specialty Hospital in Provo on Thursday. We were able to visit him and he is doing well and still in high spirits. He's been reading a lot of scriptures and other church literature. He'll be there for a while doing a little physical therapy everyday. This hospital is taking good care of Butch. He was able to watch the BYU vs. U of U game this weekend with family and is happy the Utes won :)

If you plan on visiting him they are strict with visiting hours. The hours are 9-9.

Surgery went well

Butch's skin graft went well yesterday and he will be staying at IHC for the next few days :)

Skin Graft Today

Again, sorry for the lack of information. Not a lot changes from day to day. Butch is doing well. He has been at Promise for the last couple of days but is being moved back to IHC again today for his last surgery. They are finally doing the skin graft to close up his leg. He's also been doing a number of hyperbaric treatments to help the wound heal.

He can move his hips a little now. After this last surgery he will be able to focus on physical therapy as his wounds continue to heal.

Surgery moved to tomorrow

Butch has been moved to IHC but they were unable to do the surgery to remove the bacteria today. The doctors were too busy but it is scheduled for tomorrow. They took his feeding tube out on Monday night--which he is REALLY happy about. The doctors and nurses who have worked with him from the beginning and are seeing him again at IHC are impressed and happy with his recovery so far.

Bacteria

They have found bacteria in Butch's hip. They will be transferring him back to IHC in order to clean the bacteria out. He will then have hyperbaric treatments that will help his wounds to heal faster.

Update

Sorry again for the length between posts. We visited Butch yesterday. He has been eating small amounts of food and they may be taking his feeding tube out sometime this week. The skin graft is still planned for sometime in the next few weeks--we still don't have a date for that. Butch continues to do physical therapy. They want to work him up to doing it three hours at a time. In order for him to do physical therapy they have to put a brace on him. It is kind of a shell that goes around his torso to support his back. He may need to wear it for 5-6 weeks or longer--but only during physical therapy. It was especially designed for him but he says that it is very painful and is making it difficult to do physical therapy for very long. He has asked that we pray for some kind of out-of-the-box solution that will support his back like he needs but not cause him such pain.

Skin Graft

Sorry for the lack of information lately. Butch has been at Promise post hospital care but was transferred to IHC this morning for his skin and muscle graft. When they checked the wounds they were doing better than expected and the ended up just cleaning them. They don't plan on needing the muscle graft and are planning on doing the skin graft in two weeks.

Butch has been adjusting to Promise--they're not quite as good as IHC. When they moved him back today they gave him a private room.