Update

All,

Thank you for your continued prayers and concern. My mom slept comfortably through the night. THe doctors are giving her a medicine similar to twlight sleep which is wonderful for keeping her out of pain but not helping her mental state. Every time she comes to she has to be told all over again about her condition. She thinks she has just arrived at the hospital each time she wakes up. Once she is told, she is either very positive or begins to cry. She is very worried about being a burden to her family and being 'put in a home'-- which will obviously never happen.

After consulting with a doctor in LA, Houston and her dr in Tyler they have decided that she has a T12 fracture and a complete sever of her spinal cord. This means, as of now, there is no surgery to restore function. She will have two surgeries. One tomorrow to stabalize the spine and another in the immediate days following to remove bone fragments and 'clean up' nerve endings. Please pray for the surgeon, Dr. Renfro, that will be performing these surgeries. Please pray for success in the stabilzation. Please pray for good pain management and mental state for my mom.

Please continue to pray for my family. We are all still in major shock, this is not real to us yes in it's intirety. We cant help but think ahead and that is more than we can wrap our minds around.

My mom will be moved from East Texas Medical in Tyler in about a week to Baylor Dallas where we have researched that she will recieve top care.

We all have a very long road ahead, please pray for all of us. Prayers we dont even know we need. Just a blanket of God's grace, peace and understanding of His pefect will for our lives.

So many of you have asked what you can do in the way of bringing meals or sending flowers to brighten my moms room. I would ask that you please hold off as a fund is being set up in my mother's name. This would be the best way to help her and our family. Thank you again for your thoughtfulness and care.