Brad, will be praying for Andy and his wife.  You're
right, it has been miraculous that Andy has made it
this far.  Will be praying for you as well.  I know
that can be a challenge trying to introduce somebody
to Christ after a bad accident.
Todd

--- B Dunse <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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 serves 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
> brain 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 
> into 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
> 


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