I Come to the Garden...

Okay 3jays, stamp your good foot down and demand results! This is ridiculous!! Surely there is an MS expert in that vast country of yours that would pick up your challenge? How about the Centre for Disease Control? You MUST intrigue SOMEONE with your infection????? You are still in my prayers, sweetie.

Meece, does your Dad feel "safe" outside the hospital? I'd HATE to know my brain was having bleeds and I'm still walking around. He's going to need lots of hugs 'cause I bet he's not showing how scared he is. This must make your Mom feel useless too, as there's nothing she can or can't do!! Hugs to you all. I don't worry about Matt, he'll be snatched up as soon as the word's out he's single again. 

God is good all the time!  Claim it, believe it, live it, breath it!

Hi y'all:

I'm coming to ask for prayers for my son, his family and his in-laws.  My son is an OTR driver and so is his brother-in-law.  They usually drive certain routes and usually try to stay together till they have to split off to deliver their loads.

Today my son's brother in law was ahead of him and there were 2 trucks between then and all of a sudden my son saw his brother-in-law's truck go off the road into a ravine.  He stopped in time to see him hit a tree and his truck burst into flames.  My poor son is beside himself.  This brother in law and he were very close (married sisters) and he had 3 girls and a baby on the way.  This has been horrible for my son and he was 3 hours away from here...he's on his way here and we'll take him home, he lives about 15 miles away.  

Please pray for all that are hurting and we all know that God can give the comfort and peace needed.  

Thanks,

LaDonna

LaDonna, prayers being said. Dare we ask if the brother-in-law survived? I used to drive line-haul as well. I only ever saw one truck go over (in Pennsylvania) but I will never forget that sight as long as I live. I thank God it wasn't someone I knew, but the thought of the pain it was going to bring to so many families was just overwhelming. I cannot imagine what you are all going through. Gentle hugs, sweetie.

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LaDonna, it is for the family left behind that prayers are needed. Bryan is with the Lord who called him Home. How very glorious for him, indeed! But so very, very painful for the family left behind. It is their faith that will carry them. God Bless.

Joni, you handled that very well!!! Was there the normal "squabbling" over your Mom's things or did that part go smoothly too?

Hi y'all:

Thanks for keeping us in your prayers.  My son is devastated and praise God he is going to see a therapist tomorrow afternoon.  The company has been wonderful to Melissa and my son as well.  They have begun to process the workmens comp paperwork so that Melissa and those precious girls will have the benefits they deserve.

My son is dealing with the guilt that he could have helped Bryan if he had been right behind him instead of a ways back.  Of course that's not really the case as the transformers were exploding due to the crash and the people there had to physically detain my son to keep him from being injured or killed.  Bryan was thrown from the truck with the impact of the explosions and my son was witness to that so he's dealing with a lot.  My son's wife is keeping me updated on how he's handling this.  She was in tears this morning as he has not really slept since the accident since he has terrible nightmares when he tries to sleep.  

His pain is from seeing those precious children that do not have their father.  To make matters even worse, Bryan and Melissa have the 3 girls and the baby on the way is a boy.  Melissa knows that Bryan is with God and she's doing about as well as can be expected.  She has an appointment with the funeral home today.  Since Alabama had not done the autopsy yesterday, Melissa's dad called our local coroner and he made arrangements to get Bryan here in Mississippi for an autopsy. So she's happy about that.  But the news got worse for her since the titanium wedding band was lost in the fire/explosion and once again she is despondent over that. 

Do any of you have any suggestions that any of us can do to help her?  Food, child care, etc are being done.  She works at a hospital as an RN as does my daughter-in-law (Kristina) and they are taking up a collection to help her out and Howard is also taking up money for her.

I'm very concerned about my son but am encouraged by the fact that he knows he needs help to deal with this.  He's told Melissa that he cannot be a pall bearer and she said she didn't expect him to do so, so that made him feel better.  I'm just not sure how I can help him to move forward.

Please continue to pray for all of us as we all deal with the physical loss of Bryan and move forward.

God bless y'all,

LaDonna

Thank you barbe. 

God is good and we all know that he will carry us when we feel we cannot take another step.

Doug's pain comes from knowing how much those precious girls meant to Bryan and that they will grow up without him, physically.  I believe that the therapist will provide Doug with the tools to deal with this loss as well as his pastor, who he reached out to today.

Bryan's funeral will be on Sunday so this will be a long, long week for everyone concerned.

Thank you again for your continued prayers.

LaDonna

hi guys: 1st thanx Meece, for calling.. it was a riot, i couldn't understand her on the call (bad connection) so kept asking who?? anyway, i am home, but had a cath two days ago. waiting for results, and then, back to yet another hospital for iv meds.. no more pills for me. the dr is too afraid of reactions now.. actually, it was too scarey, and im much better knowing that i'll be inpatient.

  for this weekend, our landlord is getting new kitchen cabinets done. moldy, and we think that may be creating sonme of this havoc with me. i HAVE seen an cdc dr, and they just said this is the results of late stage ms. the body just quits fighting infections, and i have to use ivs now.. its the le that the hospital gets worried about. the le therapist said, don't worry about the le, its more imp to kill the infection..

 the last time i had an iv in the er, the nurse said always have a peds njurse do it with a peds needle.. longer, so they stay in better, thinner, so lypoh flows' better.  so, that'll be the next argument to go thru when i DO go in again.. im hoping to get admitted to the central hospital this time, and hope the care will be better, and they won't freak out as bad..and, i hope they'lkl have wii fii. i've really missed everyone.

   Filter Lady, im so sorry for the loss your family has sustained. its truly sad, with your son seeing it, and the young ones left behind, including the wife.. no words. i will be praying for you all..

  thank you all for your faithfullness with me. its not going to be an easy road, with all my challenges, but God is Good, and will see me thru. i pray for the wisdom in choices.. love to you all in His name.........3jays

LaDonna, pardon me for asking, but what religion has a funeral on Sunday? Aren't the churhes all busy then?

Also, I had a head-on crash in my car which activated the air bag. I thought I'd NEVER forget that smell. So I did something which seems kind of silly now, but totally worked. I put red wine on my fingers and shoved them up my nostrils. I truly believe that my nose hairs were holding on to the smell of the air bag. If it helps....he truly could still be smelling the burn!