Please send best thoughts for Cary's upcoming surgery tomorrow

[Jens Fudge]

Dear Loy,

Thank you for your mail. I have forwarded your mail to Dapug. Most of our members know Cary as you know.

Of course our thoughts are with Cary and yourself today

Dapug Members: 
Those very few of you who don't know Cary. Cary is the speaker that has been with us the most times. A lot, and that's almost eveyone in the group have formed personal and very close bonds with Cary.

On 11/17/2025 1:03 AM, Loy Anderson wrote:

Family and friends:

Cary had a very significant injury at home just over a week ago. He is at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the medical center right now. The current plan is that he will have surgery on Monday, November 17th. Please send your best thoughts and prayers to him and steady hands to his surgical team as he goes through this ordeal.

If you don’t like knowing medical details, please stop reading and just wish him the best in his upcoming recovery period. Thank you.

Description

Cary had an accident at home just over a week ago. Cary woke up in the early morning hours to go to the bathroom. Unbeknownst to him, a comforter was half tucked into the bottom of the bed and the rest of the comforter was on the floor. As he was walking, his feet got caught up in the comforter and he fell directly onto his face. His recall is that it felt like his feet were tied up. He bled profusely for well over an hour. We figured that he must have broken his nose.
 
The bottom line is that we ultimately learned that besides chipping his front tooth, fracturing at least that tooth and possibly another one, as well as breaking a rib, he has four significant facial fractures on both sides of his face from under his orbital sockets to the tops of his upper jaw bones.

Cary went to the ER, and after being shuttled between several ERs (four nights/five days in three different hospital ER trauma centers), he is now starting his second day in an actual hospital room awaiting surgery. He’s currently on multiple antibiotics in advance of the surgery.

He is finally at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the medical center, where there is a surgical team that has the expertise to handle this delicate surgery.

It turns out that facial reconstruction and repair of this extent needs a team of specialized OMFS (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery) doctors who deal with facial trauma and who also have additional dental training such as DMD (Doctorate of Medical Dentistry, a degree that I was unaware of before this time, but makes sense now). These doctors are ultimately from UT Health, the medical school that is at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. These experts have privileges at multiple hospitals. So far, he has been seen by six different OMFS doctors from the UT Health OMFS team.
 
They’ve been working on their plan for Cary, assembling the appropriate doctors for the surgery and operating room time. The plan is that the Chief Surgeon of OMFS at Memorial Hermann Hospital will be the main surgeon for tomorrow’s surgery. We’re told that they will put in multiple plates across his face to stabilize things (the end result will be the modern equivalent of wiring your jaw shut). He’s been on a liquid diet and will continue that for an estimated four to six weeks.

Cary has a positive attitude and is very much looking forward to being in the recovery period. The doctors and nurses have also been impressed with Cary's positive attitude. Right now, you would never know that he has this kind of injury as some of you know from talking with Cary or seeing him in person.
 
Feel free to share this information, as Cary wants friends and family to know what's going on.
 
Thank you for bearing with us, and we hope all is well in your world.

Loy
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