The doctors said Dawn will be having surgery today at 1:00 or 2:00. She is becoming more and more alert everyday and as Scott put it "is trying to plan her escape nearly every moment she is awake".

In response to a question someone had about the type of malaria Dawn contracted- The doctors say she has severe malaria using a medical term that I dare not try to remember because it will be incorrect. The loss of tissue was not from the malaria, but resulted from medicine she had to take to stay alive in the first week she was in the hospital. Basically, Dawn was in organ failure due to the malaria. In order to keep her alive, the doctors were giving her three types of blood pressure medicine so that all the blood would go to her vital organs. Because all the blood was going to her vital organs, there wasn't any blood getting to her extremities and the tissue in these areas died. This is why she is having so many surgeries, to remove the dead tissue. They are very complex surgeries because they are also rerouting her arteries. I hope that clarifies any questions many of you may have. I am trying to be as tasteful and respectful with my explanations as I can for Dawn's sake.