CREW IS HOME

I DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE YOU HANGING...CREW WENT HOME TODAY.

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR PRAYING FOR THIS FAMILY.  WE DID SEE A MIRACLE!!!!!


HE STILL HAS MANY TUBES, A BODY CAST AND A MOM WORRIED ABOUT TAKING CARE OF HIM BUT THRILLED TO SEE HER OTHER LITTLE ONES....
SHE WILL DO GREAT. ....BUT I WOULD BE CONCERNED TOO. 

 WE are "LITTLE SITTING" this weekend while Amanda and Micah are in a wedding. 

So far we have been to

Chick Fil-A  (played on the playground for an hour) to the movie to see The Lorax  and gone to Barnes and Noble for storybook time. 

Here is a shot of Parker and Jack's Mom at the Rehearsal Dinner.  I think I see some  extensions and a little mystic tan (which I need badly) !

I think she is beautiful, but then I know her story well. 

What a scary day for so many across the country today with all the weather.  I can never remember hearing about so many tornadoes.  Hope all of you are safe.

 

Tonight I have of a friend that is losing his Dad to cancer and heart disease, a close friend that is losing her husband after a very long marriage.

I know a friend that feels abandoned by her adult kids, a good friend that is learning to do life without her husband. 

I have a friend that is in a major fight for her sight, a friend that is bitter over her pastor being very critical of another pastor on of all places, FACEBOOK. 

Have a GREAT WEEKEND!

BOWING DOWN IN THANKS

I am a little emotional today, a little overwhelmed, but most of all SO THANKFUL FOR A GOD THAT HEARS PRAYER. 
I got an noon text from Marie that just broke my heart.  This is a girl that is only a few year younger than my Amanda.  She has a huge support system, but she is Crew’s Mom. 
I don’t think she will mind me sharing her message in her words….

• He is more comfortable today.  They increased his pain meds and made them closer together. He is still In ICU and his blood pressure is still high and still on BP meds.
  
• My dad stayed with him last night.  I have never left the hospital in 7 days. Yesterday I broke down, I was hysterical crying and my body couldn't do it anymore. So I stayed at the hotel and got some sleep, I'm about to take a real shower while my mom, dad, and Clennton are with Crew.
  
• 
  

I hurt for her.  I cannot  even imagine the load she has carried, the fear, the fatigue.


Then came the GOOD NEWS…..Bonnie, her Mom, messaged me late this afternoon.    Her message said “Crew is moving out of ICU.  He is peaceful, and this has been the best day yet!!!!!  Praise The Lord”!!! 
That message made my day and I am sure many others….then she sent me these pictures!

 GG kissing her little man….

        Crew moving to a Big Boy Room





That my friend is ANSWERED PRAYER. 

So tonight as you go to bed pray for the entire family that God will give them an extra burst of energy, some good sleep, and some great news from the doctor tomorrow. 

From my heart to yours, and I can assure you from the family, our deepest thanks for praying for a little boy that you do not know. 

On a sidenote, I am sick with whatever my little Jack has  had and now my husband is too....I hope its not the flu...First year I have I have not taken the flu shot. Ugh
But sick or no sick
I could not wait to share this news with you.....

NO WORDS NEEDED

JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO, MARIE GOT TO HOLD CREW!!!! LOOK HOW ALERT HE LOOKS....

SUNDAY BREAKTHROUGH ****UPDATE

****This is the message I just got from Marie

Marie Morris-White

• They took him off the vent today and now he is on oxygen and tolerating it pretty well. He gets steroids to keep the swelling in his throat down so they don't have to reintabate him. They had to
  start blood pressure medicine because it was getting out of
  control, so he gets that every 6 hours.
• Tomorrow they may change is blood pressure medication to be closer together because he isn't making it the 6 hours without it.
• They started his feeding tube again.  When this tube of milk is out they may let him have a bottle to actually feel full, they said they don't feel full with the feeding tube.
• His belly where the surgery was is swelling more today then yesterday so that concerns them for the incision. So he is still not out of the dark but he is still fighting!

REMEMBER LAST NIGHTS POST ASKING GOD FOR A SUNDAY BREAKTHROUGH.

CREW IS BREATHING ON HIS OWN.
THANKING GOD WITH TEARS POURING. 

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

I can't sleep tonight.  Could be because I have slept all day.  Could be because I have a sore throat and feel like I am getting sick. 

Could be I have a lot on my mind.  For whatever reason, I remembered I had not posted an update. 

I cannot tell you how many lurkers have come out to say they are praying for Crew.  How many people are spreading his name and his need.  His need is simply a miracle. 

One reason I am late posting is  that I have not heard anything from Marie or her Mom since late afternoon.
 
I could tell from the tone of her text she was exhausted beyond words, fearful, and holding  on by a string.  Tonight I am just going to copy and paste what she send me around 5 this afternoon. 

From Marie
   
Crew  is still on the vent, his kidneys are damaged from everything that's going on and they are concerned that it is  becoming permanent.
Also they  are still  trying to give him time to battle his own blood pressure in fear of making his kidneys more stressed by assisting with medicine, unless it turns dangerously high.

He is having a very rough time right now and is being very difficult to sedate and his blood pressure and heart rate were very concerning to them.
As we speak he is getting an arterial line because blood draws are no long working, he is clotting to bad. So he is knocked out and paralyzed. He can't catch a break.

Let's all pray that today will be the day for a breakthrough.

Thanks for your thoughts, emails and prayers. 
  
Continue to encourage her.  I know not a minute goes by that she does not need
an encouraging word.