Friday, June 8, 2012

Liga Youth Status Update

Julia is out of surgery! Surgeon says he successfully reconnected ligaments and fused 5 vertebrae. Her prognosis for a full recovery is excellent. The right orbital bone was also successfully repaired. The torn ACL will be repaired at a later date. Thank you all for your prayers & concern. Please continue to pray for her to have emotional and physical strength to get through the rehabilitation that will follow. Julia’s mother and father send their blessings and thank you all for your prayers and support.

Liam is now at home. He did suffer from an ankle fracture and is equipped with a boot. It remains to be determined if he will require any plastic surgery for his facial injuries.

Hayley is in good hands at a trauma center in San Diego. Her condition remains guarded but stable.

2 comments:

  1. The LIGA Family

    When most of us use the phrase “LIGA Family” it is usually to describe the LIGA members and their immediate families. Over the past week I have discovered just how far that “family network” extends.

    On Wednesday following the accident, one of my long time colleagues from work who knew that I flew with LIGA and the Flying Samaritans emailed me to tell me that he was sorry to hear about our tragedy and to relate that Liam and his family were his neighbors. Later that same day while getting my hair cut, the lady who cuts my hair explained that her husband coached a Lacrosse team and that one of the team members, Liam Guzman, was involved in a plane crash in Mexico.

    I had mentioned the fatal accident to a friend whom I had recently met on a Flying Sams trip 3 weeks earlier. I originally emailed her the day the accident happened but did not mention and of the specifics out of respect for the families involved. Fast forward one week when the AOPA story broke on the web; I emailed the link for the AOPA story to my new friend, an RN working in the ER at Camp Pendleton. When she received the email she recognized Julie and Hayley’s names and emailed me pictures she had taken of Julie on a medical mission to Uganda where Julie and Hayley had worked with her 3 years earlier.

    These random links just go to show how the LIGA Family tree continues to extend.

    Bill Allen

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  2. About best friends, Hayley and Julia:
    Julia Tower on the left and Hayley Brown on the right.
    Both girls are active volunteers with Liga and with Liga Youth, and have done projects to help the youth in the El Fuerte community. They are both honor students, and active as leaders and volunteers at school. They were to take their senior finals on the 8th and graduate Friday June 15, 2012; Julia might be able to attend but if not, their friends will accept their diplomas for them.

    Julia will enter a Pre-Med program at UC Santa Barbara, and Hayley will attend Cal Poly San Luis Obispo majoring in Environmental Management & Protection.
    Very bright young women with wonderful personalities; grounded, caring and loving.


    We are hopeful for a good recovery and know that amazing things are in store for these two "Miracles of the Rio Fuerte."

    Pat Spier and Janet Lapp

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