Week of Oct 12th 09

M.W.--I received this from a past co-worker of mine this morning. Please keep this family in prayer. Thank you! * Would you please include Tim M in your prayers. He is 24 years old. Tim has a 'mysterious' problem/ disease/ possible tumor that Drs. are unable to detect. It is very sad that with our modern technology and medical knowledge of today, Drs. throughout the U.S.A. are unable to find the real problem. He has been in hospitals around TX & now has been at John Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland. (Those of you that know my brother Allen, he trained there while doing his training as a Dr. & it is a great hospital.) Tim has been there almost 2 months now. His mother is coming home to Bastrop tomorrow, so I can find out more details, but I do know he had at least one surgery on 10/06. Some opinons in TX were that he may have a small tumor in his chest cavity, but no one could find it. He has been critical/ life threatening for many months now.

Tim's Daddy is in Iraq. He was recently home on leave to be with Tim before he went to John Hopkins. His Daddy is now back in Iraq. Sadly, NONE of the medical expenses are being covered by the military benefits of his father. As I said earlier, Tim's mother will be home tomorrow & I'll find out what, if any positive results were determined at John Hopkins. She has sent me short & quick emails. Not any good news, just that he had surgery & made it through. She also added that he will have many, many more months of therapy/ recovery. We can all certainly count our blessings when we know of situations like Tim's & his family. Our church assisted his mother with her flight back to Austin tomorrow, because she has exhausted LOTS of money of her own. This family certainly needs support now & will need it for a long time. Thanks for you thoughts & prayers.

Love,

Janet

* Dena was in a car accident last night by the performing arts center, she takes community college classes in the area. She had surgery this morning to put a plate in her wrist and has fracture her fingers on left hand. She is in a lot of pain and could use a lot of prayer to help her with the pain. She is at Breckenridge and we hope she is released tomorrow or Friday. Thank you. God blessed her because they had to use the jaws of life to cut out portions of her car to get her out and she has just her wrist and fingers hurt. From her mother, Lucia