Please feel free to foward this information. Susan and I want to thank everyone for their prayers. It is amazing.
We are trying to communicate as well as we can. Please do not reply as it is getting very difficult to manage.
He is at Landstuhl Hospital in Germany and we heard from the surgeon this morning:
Left arm 70 % burned - 2nd and 3rd degree Right arm 90% burned - " Back of head, back and butt - " Face - some 2nd degree burns but eyes appear to be OK Both tibias broke below knees and have been externally set. Compound with exposed bone but Ortho docs think it will be OK. A couple of broke bones in one foot All organs are OK and there are no chest injuries Brain ct scan was good. He does have some minor soot damage to lungs and trachea ane he is a breathing tube thru the trachea. It will be OK and Doc said he could breath on his own but wants him to heal some. No spinal/nerve damage and good circulation to feet and hands.
He was the only one hurt in this incident. We still do not have details but apparently an IED went off under his driver position in the Stryker vehicle. They cleared a perimeter and coptered him to a hospital.
We expect him to be sent to the burn unit in San Antonio within the next 48 hrs. We are trying to decide whether to start driving back home ASAP and fly from there or abandon the truck and fly to San Antonio from here.