PRAISE REPORT:
Initial prayer request, Sept 25, 2015
Initial diagnosis:
From Jean Cobb this is the initial diagnoses when they brought Emmalee to the hospital after the accident. All of you know that I am very private about my children. However, I feel it necessary to let everyone know what has happened. Emma was in a very bad wreck yesterday and was airlifted to Greenville Memorial. She has several small but widespread brain hemorrhages, a broken sternum, transverse fractures of her L3 and L4. She has lacerations on her spleen and liver and is intebated. She regained consciousness for a couple of moments this morning around 8 o'clock but has otherwise been unconscious. I cannot express how your love and care for our family means to us. Please pray for her, she has a long road ahead of her. We love you. Psalm 111 in all things.
Update as of yesterday, October 4, 2015 :
Praise God! Another UPDATE from EMMALEE's dad! Monday October4, and yet another Weekday Update. This weekend, last Friday actually, Emma was evicted from the ICU ward for noncompliance with the rules and regulations for occupancy. In other words, she wasn't critical enough to stay. Another praise to God. Jesus, I want to say His Name, the name of the one responsible for her healing. She has been moved to the Pediatric ward in the children's section of the hospital where she has a beautiful room (as hospital rooms go) and continues to have a wonderful staff who have taken great interest in her recovery. However, our stay here may also be brief. Today she did a full lap around this floor and climbed up and down 2 flights of stairs only assisted for balance. And she did it without resting between activities! Emma has also eaten a meal for the first time, today, and she is beginning to drink a few glasses of water per day. We are all amazed, and thankful, and trying our best not to get to expectant. She is, as she said, "pooped". Tuckered out, done for now. We have seen God move on her behalf so greatly. She is about 6 mos ahead of the initial projections just a week ago! The only pain she is now having is due to laying in bed so long and the inactivity she has had to endure. And the truly humbling part is that she thinks of everyone else instead of herself. She has been concerned for her family, her friends, people she goes to school and church with, extended family, and people she doesn't even know. This morning she told me she was grateful for the accident; that she knew that God was going to do something great through it; that lives would be saved because of it. She also said that she knew it HAD to be her, that it was part of God's plan. I have been moved all morning, in awe really. There are things she has told me starting yesterday that are too wonderful to share on fb. She will have to tell everyone herself as the days forward come. I feel like there are some of you out there who are going through dry times. You know, the times when you couldn't sense God's presence if he kissed you on the cheek? Maybe your dry time has been a matter of days, maybe weeks, maybe years, maybe decades? I am compelled to tell you that the Lord has a plan for you bigger than you, greater than any accomplishment you will ever have, deeper than any pain you can endure. This accident that almost claimed Emma's life did not catch God "off guard" or take Him by surprise. Did He cause it, in no way do I believe that. Did He allow it, yes, I believe He did. Because He has a plan for Emma's life, AND the life of everyone she touches. And she is not unique in this respect. He designed your life the same way. Emma and I pray for all of you that it doesn't take a tragedy or near disaster for you to realize that. Romans 8:38-39 is all the assurance that we need to know that Jesus did not pay the sin debt for only a select few, He died on the cross for all of mankind from the first man to the last man, for the first sin to the final to ever be committed against him, so that no one has to be separated from Him. We also believe Jeremiah 29:11 applies to all of us. And we know that Romans 10:9-10 promises that salvation is available to everyone, no matter who, where, or what circumstance you find yourself in. Jesus is ready and willing. Emma may be home sooner than later. Now we start the process of returning to our new "normal". Please continue to pray for us. We will continue to pray for you. Thank you in advance for all the help. As hard as it is for me to say, we will likely need some. We love you all.
Initial prayer request, Sept 25, 2015
Initial diagnosis:
From Jean Cobb this is the initial diagnoses when they brought Emmalee to the hospital after the accident. All of you know that I am very private about my children. However, I feel it necessary to let everyone know what has happened. Emma was in a very bad wreck yesterday and was airlifted to Greenville Memorial. She has several small but widespread brain hemorrhages, a broken sternum, transverse fractures of her L3 and L4. She has lacerations on her spleen and liver and is intebated. She regained consciousness for a couple of moments this morning around 8 o'clock but has otherwise been unconscious. I cannot express how your love and care for our family means to us. Please pray for her, she has a long road ahead of her. We love you. Psalm 111 in all things.
Update as of yesterday, October 4, 2015 :
Praise God! Another UPDATE from EMMALEE's dad! Monday October4, and yet another Weekday Update. This weekend, last Friday actually, Emma was evicted from the ICU ward for noncompliance with the rules and regulations for occupancy. In other words, she wasn't critical enough to stay. Another praise to God. Jesus, I want to say His Name, the name of the one responsible for her healing. She has been moved to the Pediatric ward in the children's section of the hospital where she has a beautiful room (as hospital rooms go) and continues to have a wonderful staff who have taken great interest in her recovery. However, our stay here may also be brief. Today she did a full lap around this floor and climbed up and down 2 flights of stairs only assisted for balance. And she did it without resting between activities! Emma has also eaten a meal for the first time, today, and she is beginning to drink a few glasses of water per day. We are all amazed, and thankful, and trying our best not to get to expectant. She is, as she said, "pooped". Tuckered out, done for now. We have seen God move on her behalf so greatly. She is about 6 mos ahead of the initial projections just a week ago! The only pain she is now having is due to laying in bed so long and the inactivity she has had to endure. And the truly humbling part is that she thinks of everyone else instead of herself. She has been concerned for her family, her friends, people she goes to school and church with, extended family, and people she doesn't even know. This morning she told me she was grateful for the accident; that she knew that God was going to do something great through it; that lives would be saved because of it. She also said that she knew it HAD to be her, that it was part of God's plan. I have been moved all morning, in awe really. There are things she has told me starting yesterday that are too wonderful to share on fb. She will have to tell everyone herself as the days forward come. I feel like there are some of you out there who are going through dry times. You know, the times when you couldn't sense God's presence if he kissed you on the cheek? Maybe your dry time has been a matter of days, maybe weeks, maybe years, maybe decades? I am compelled to tell you that the Lord has a plan for you bigger than you, greater than any accomplishment you will ever have, deeper than any pain you can endure. This accident that almost claimed Emma's life did not catch God "off guard" or take Him by surprise. Did He cause it, in no way do I believe that. Did He allow it, yes, I believe He did. Because He has a plan for Emma's life, AND the life of everyone she touches. And she is not unique in this respect. He designed your life the same way. Emma and I pray for all of you that it doesn't take a tragedy or near disaster for you to realize that. Romans 8:38-39 is all the assurance that we need to know that Jesus did not pay the sin debt for only a select few, He died on the cross for all of mankind from the first man to the last man, for the first sin to the final to ever be committed against him, so that no one has to be separated from Him. We also believe Jeremiah 29:11 applies to all of us. And we know that Romans 10:9-10 promises that salvation is available to everyone, no matter who, where, or what circumstance you find yourself in. Jesus is ready and willing. Emma may be home sooner than later. Now we start the process of returning to our new "normal". Please continue to pray for us. We will continue to pray for you. Thank you in advance for all the help. As hard as it is for me to say, we will likely need some. We love you all.
