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Raindog

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  • 4 months later...

Hello,

 

My brother's titanium and cadaver bone jaw did not take. He was having massive infections, so today he went to OHSU to have a huge surgery. The removed the implants, titanium, and cadaver bone and cleaned up his jaw line. They found more bullet fragments and cleaned those out. Then, they remove his fibula from his leg including the arteries and used it to make his new jaw. This required a tracheotomy. The surgery lasted 11 hours. 

 

Then, in post op, they discovered the new arteries were not bleeding, so he had a second surgery. That was another 3 hours.

 

He is resting now.

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I hung out with him until 1 AM.

1) The infection causing the surgery is probably e.coli.

2) He was able to sit up for an hour.

3) He is not a swollen as he could be.

4) He can talk.

5) He sleep a good portion of the time he was not being attended to by the staff at OHSU, albeit very lightly. 

6) The man in the room next to him screams for hours at a time.

7) His room has a cool view of the tram, the ross island bridge, omsi, and the tillikum crossing.

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