Gretchen ... any news on Carrie?
Her mom wrote on May 2 (I didn't include this in a pinged post, just pinged LadyDoc to it in reply to her post): "Her ENT ordered a couple of new trache collars, and they are the newer ones that don't have a balloon. But he won't install them for a couple of weeks." This is to keep her windpipe from being damaged by her trache collar.
On Sundays or Mondays, my uncle and aunt generally send out a family newsletter Email update, advising what's going on with their daughters and their families, and other family members when items of note come up. Generally, if Carrie's mom and dad, or her sister and brother-in-law, haven't sent an update before then, I will have news by Sunday or Monday each week on any developments. Hope that helps as far as knowing when to look for more news.
Her mom is putting together the many prayer cloths that others have sent to them, to make a blanket of sorts to lay over Carrie. I am writing an Email to her mom, telling her that Joseph's coat of many colors, and how the father's (Father's) favor was upon Joseph, keeps coming to mind when I think of all those prayer cloths being sewn together to cover her. There's more to that which I hope to gather and post soon.
God bless you for your constancy in prayer.