Prayers for Andrew

[wondersofwine]

Along with prayers for Foodie and Connie, add Andrew to the list. He is an 18-year-old high school senior who goes to my church. He was on his motorcycle after school the Monday before Thanksgiving and was going about the speed limit (45 mph) on a busy street when a school bus turned left in his path. The 70-year old school bus driver hadn't seen him. The newspaper reported that the impact dented the side of the school bus and bent the frame of the motorcycle. He was helicopter-lifted to U of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill. His injuries included bruises to the face, two broken femurs, a crushed ankle, a couple broken ribs and pelvis injury, lacerated spleen, kidney, liver and adrenal gland and a collapsed lung. T he doctors had to stop internal bleeding and put him in an induced coma that first night to keep him quiet. They then operated over the next few days (including on Thanksgiving) on his many injuries. When he emerged from the coma he recognized his family and seemed to have no brain damage. He doesn't remember the accident but talks lucidly when he is not confused by the pain meds. He took himself off the respirator on Saturday and is feisty and wants to go home though he has a long road to recovery. Out of intensive care in intermediate care now. (His sister reports that he has been a gentleman with the nurses but quite cranky with his family when they can't give him the cup of water he wants, etc.) His father, mother, two sisters have all gathered around him. Oldest sister had to return to work yesterday but she is posting his progress online. He has prayers from many sources (our church, his school, his relatives in New Hampshire, his parents' and sisters' work sites, etc.) but more is good. His progress does seem miraculous.

[This message has been edited by wondersofwine (edited 11-30-2010).]