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From: B Dunse <[log in to unmask]>

> Hello Folks,
>
> I thought to give an update on my nephew Andy who was in the bad accident
> last April. He and his fiance have had to move out of their apartment due
> to finances. Fortunately they are able to stay at her grandparents cabin
> on a nearby lake for as long as they need. Heather, his fiance has had
> some health issues for some time and now diagnosed with having an ulcer.
> Which isn't good, but better than Kron's Disease as they had thought. So
> with dietary care and stress reduction she ought be able to whip that one.
> Although stress reduction is likely hard considering she is the only
> driver in their household now as well the only one who can sign papers,
> make arrangements and etc. She serve s as Andy's legal guardian at this
> point. He has to write a letter to the judge to prove that he is willing
> and able to marry heather. Talking to him today, he is thinking after his
> surgeries. Granted they are living in a less than desirable situation as
> live-ins yet, but she is sold out committed to him and they are for all
> intents and purposes one. I'm feeling I ought snug up to the line of
> showing them God's love and Christ's salvation and etc. It isn't that they
> don't know where I stand, and seen how a miracle has taken place with
> Andy's recovery, but nonetheless we don't always get it until it is
> pointed out a couple hundred times. Anyway. Their son will be going in for
> an assessment on his corrective surgery on the day after thanksgiving. He
> had a procedure done a year ago to date almost, to expand his skull due to
> the lack of a soft spot enough to make room for the bra in to grow. He's a
> little stinker and runs around as any other toddler. When they did the
> surgery last year, they nicked a nerve that controls lazy eye so they are
> fixing that now. So then, with Andy he is going in October 31 and having
> a procedure done to try to expand the skin on the scalp. They will put in
> disk like expanders on the side of his head which are expanded I believe
> with a solution weekly to expand the skin. The doctor is concerned however
> with his skin tightness now and the scarring that he has, and the ability
> to heal properly from this procedure. They are afraid it will not close
> proper, open him up to infection, plus the body's desire to reject foreign
> objects, and so they are concerned for the success of the procedure and
> his being able to withstand it. they said without this procedure, doing
> the reconstructive surgeries needed yet on his skull would give him a 40%
> chance of survival. I don't know the percentage of survival with the
> procedure done. They are going to try to get the scalp stretched enough to
> do the surgeries around or after Christmas. I am not sure what is going on
> with the family. His younger brother who was pretty close with him and
> really upset at the time of the accident isn't returning his calls and
> doesn't seem to care about what is going on, his sister is mad at his
> finance for telling truth about his mother's claims of helping him, and
> so there is some family dynamics which aren't good. So I would ask if you
> would to pray for the family unit to be repaired. To my knowledge none
> know the Lord, so to say, but yet family ought be there for each other.
> Also pray for his surgical procedure to be a success and no infection or
> subsequent problems resulting from it, as well a peace about it all going
> in to it. I tried to stress not focusing on the procedure but the results
> afterward and past that point, and come to think of it this time I hadn't
> mentioned praying, but I have before and am going to try to get him
> pointed toward God. It could be tough to explain if god is so good then
> why did this all happen in the first place and so forth. Yet the recovery
> is nothing short of miraculous and I can't imagine God has gotten him
> through to this point for no reason. He seems in good spirits over all. I
> sent him some money to help out their financial situation and he said it
> came just when they needed it which I was glad to hear. I don't know if I
> mentioned it but a friend of his mother had brainstormed a benefit
> dinner/auction for him, and to be quite frank, it is obvious it was a ruse
> to gain money by someone which I'll not publicly say here. But I believe
> he was taken advantage of while his hospital bed was yet warm from his
> release, as they only benefited $600 out of the entire benefit when there
> was at least three times that sold in dinner tickets alone. Anyway, I
> can't go down that road or I'll be on the phone regretting my words to
> someone. Finances, peace, health protection, and joy through this all is
> appreciated for Andy and Heather and their little one. Thanks so much.
>
> Brad