Day Ten - Saturday December 24, 2011 p.m.

The dentist was so nice to come to the hospital on Christmas Eve day.  He said that both of the two front teeth need root canals, and the left one has an exposed nerve.  He put sealant on both teeth plus a layer of composite.  When Bridgett wakes up we will have to address the pain then.  He said the tooth with the exposed nerve can be easily fixed by giving a local and removing the exposed root.  The other tooth will need to be drilled. The dentist had the nurse hold Bridgett's lip open, I held the composite, he did the procedure and Scott held the light that dries the sealant and composite.  It was handy that Scott showed up just in time to help!  Bridgett's CT was good.  The swelling continues to subside. Also, on the CT we could see the beautiful job the ENT did on her zygomatic arch. One of the respiratory therapist said that he always does the best job on Tracheostomy's as well.  Bridgett's cultures were negative for infection, so the fever is still from the brain trauma.  She had her eyes open quite a bit today.  Otherwise, things are pretty much the same and no worse.  One of the pulmonary surgeons told me today that the force of her wreck caused such rapid swelling that he called impressive swelling--not good just like wow.  He said that within an hour of the wreck the swelling was almost to the point where they couldn't get the drain tube into the brain.  Usually people with brain trauma slowly swell and it slowly recedes.  We found out that the staples in her head were from a large incision made when they inserted the drain tube.  Bridgett and Arrianne's bishop arranged for a beautiful Christmas meal to be brought into the ICU waiting room for us today. Thanks for those who helped with that.  Also, thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers, cards, emails, and gifts.  We feel so very blessed at this time and truly feel the love of the Savior in our lives.  We have felt many tender mercies of the Lord.  Someone pointed out that it was no accident that Bridgett got all the best doctors here.  It is just random who gets who, but she ended up with the best neurosurgeon and the best ENT.