| MAJOR UPDATE: Hillary is scheduled to have a second total hip replacement on the previous replacement, August 19th 2009. This will be done in Charlotte, NC. Please keep her in your thoughts. :) It is now known that the first hip replacement was part of the national recall and this is why it failed. We feel there is permanent damge to her hip. |
| April 29th 2006: Early in the morning on her way home Hillary was involved in a fatal head-on collision with another vehicle. The accident occurred on Hwy 105 in front of Appalachain Angler. The other driver was killed instantly. Hillary was air lifted to Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee with life threatening injuries. Please pray for the family of the other driver, we can only imagine their devastation. It is now known the other driver had been drinking. Hillary has extensive injuries in the pelvic area and legs, in which she has undergone a 7 1/2 hour surgery on Saturday. They placed screws and pins in both hips and a rod in one femur and knee. As one can imagine with an accident this severe, her entire pelvic area has suffered severe damage, both hips are broken. She has broken ribs on both sides of her body, with lacerations to her liver and spleen. Both knees are deeply lacerated and broken. At this time she is breathing on a ventilator. She also has facial injuries which consist of a severe laceration along her browline and nose, a hairline fracture to her jaw, and a fractured hyoid bone, her car did not have an airbag These are her most serious injuries at this time. |





