Posted on 10/28/2008 8:49:00 AM PDT by griffin
What time is this tomorrow?
Oh, Kathy. I am so sorry to hear about Josh.
Lord, my sorrow for Josh and his family is great. This is for a season and we are just a vapor. We don’t know what marvelous plans You have for our homes and children. All we can do is praise You for the life You have given us all, rejoice in our experiences and look forward to the day when we can stand before You even in spite of our transgressions....because Your sacrifice has make our redemption complete for those who call upon Your Holy name. I lift up Josh and his family. You know they trust in You, Lord. Please, if it be Your will, with a word of Your lips heal Josh and fully restore his function. We call upon You to work Your blessings upon us and Your children Lord....and we are truely thankful for these little ones You have blessed us with! THANK YOU Lord! Praise your Name! Now and forever!
AMEN!
The C-section starts 8AM CST.
Here’s a copy of an email I’ve sent around for people to forward and pray...
Prayer requested...
Dear Friends,
On Nov. 1, 2007, our 13 year old grandson Josh Eberly went into a local clinic and had the last allergy shot in a series of 7. He’d been receiving this for a year. Josh has asthma also.
On this particular date they were running late and even asked the clerk at the desk if they were too late to get the shot. Oh how I wish they’d had the doors locked that day because while he was given that shot the person giving it to him was discussing trick or treating with him. Josh explained that they don’t do trick or treating and the clerk gave him some candy.
The shot was given at 6:15 PM and within 2 minutes Josh had an allergic reaction. His last words to his mother as he was falling to the floor was “Help me!”.
Because the clinic had nothing there except the epi pen for such things Josh suffered cardiac arrest. The ambulance was busy in that community so they had to radio one from a nearby town. Valuable time was lost. Our daughter tried to administer CPR but began to hyperventilate. The “drs” just stood by and watched.
We took the call around 6:23 from Josh’s brother Jake 17 (our oldest grandson). He was hysterical and it took me awhile to get out of him what had happened. We headed there not even knowing where he was. At first I thought maybe they had been riding their bicycles and something had happened to Josh. The words he said to me were “Grandma, you need to pray for my brother. It’s BAD!” as he was screaming! I could hear him yelling at the “dr” “What did you give my brother!”
By the time we got there, Josh was being placed into the ambulance. The local hospital got him stable as he literally died. His eyes were fixed and dilated. He was life-flighted to Mott’s Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor where he spent the next 102 days. They say he went without oxygen for 20 minutes. We think it wasn’t that long but still too long.
After the first week an MRI was done. We had a meeting where we were told the worse of the worse. They said he’d never be able to gag, cough, walk, talk and that he would always be on life support. They told us we should let him go. Of course, our faith in God told us that as long as there was life, there is hope.
Our daughter told us that we aren’t the givers of life and the Dr said “While we respect your faith, if God wanted to heal your son, he would have already done that. God doesn’t need a week”.
We were devastated! Our daughter, Josh’s mom, held fast to her beliefs. We prayed and prayed. Our Pastor and his wife came up and prayed with all of us. The next day Josh started doing some of those things they had just told us he’d never be able to do. So they became “hopefully optimistic”. So are we.
Josh now goes to Ann Arbor twice a week. He is making progress and we have faith in God and know that God is able. It’s been difficult for the whole family because Josh’s dad quit his job in order to take full time care of Josh. He’s in a wheelchair and can not move or speak. Josh can’t initiate any movement. He’s in a minimal state of consciousness.
The reason I’m sending this email is because we are requesting prayer. Our prayer focus is that Josh will begin to move his arms or legs, fingers, toes...That he would speak...a word, anything...now he moans or groans and yells. We believe he’s trying very hard to come back to us. He is making progress, be it ever so slow.
Even though he suffered from a lack of oxygen we believe that God can restore anything that was lost. His memories, cognitive abilities, neurons, transmitters and all the other things that go along with an anoxic brain injury. (lack of oxygen)
When you receive this please say a prayer for Josh and pass this email on to everyone in your email list. I can’t promise as other emails do, that if you send this to 12 people within 12 minutes something good will happen to you ... or if you don’t that something terrible will happen to you. We just want to bombard heaven, as we’ve been doing for the past 9 plus months, but sometimes people forget to fervently pray. Josh stays home for the most part in order to keep him away from infections, etc. He’s very vulnerable right now. So out of sight, out of mind maybe? Many are praying faithfully for Josh to be restored and we do SO appreciate that.
Please say a prayer specifically for the things mentioned and pass this email on to as many other people who you know will pray for Josh.
In the meantime we’ve set up a carepage for Josh where you can get all the information and more recently a caringbridge site. The address for carepage is www.carepages.com and put joshuaourwarrior in for the title. The CaringBridge site is www.caringbridge.org/visit/joshuaeberly THERE ARE PHOTOS POSTED ON BOTH OF THESE SITES
Kathy Giles
Josh’s Grandma
kggma@yahoo.com
I won’t back down and I won’t back up!
Joshua will be restored and he will proclaim the illustrious works of our Lord!
www.caringbridge.org/visit/joshuaeberly
That’s my prayer time...will be praying.
In my thoughts an prayers.
Griffin, I’ve pinged Logan’s Prayer Warriors....they’re a WONDERFUL group of pray-ers....
PLEASE keep this thread updated...let us know how things are progressing....I’ll keep pinging them, OK?
God bless your whole family...
Thank you for the rest of the story. Couldn’t find it easily on the web page...or maybe I’m just dense! :) We will pray for full recover for Joshua!!
Thank you!!
Thank you BG...I appreciate your effort to raise the warriors!
Prayers up.
I join in urgent prayer for your child, wife and you!
you are in our prayers here...and with 2 loving parents like ye obviously are, i am sure little Joey will turn into one fine gentleman...
You and your family will be in my prayers.
Prayer bump
Most sincere prayers are being said for all of you. It is already clear that the Lord has given you enormous strength and faith. May your life be blessed with this son given to you by God. I pray for all medical procedures to be guided by Jesus in whose name I pray.
Prayers
I lift you up to the God who made you and loves you - the very same God who made and loves your little son Joey. May you feel the arms of Your Father ever about you and your little Joey, and know you are loved...
God is God; we call upon Him and pray for healing. His Will WILL be done!
May Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Heal your son and your entire family!
We have gathered and claim this in His Holy Name!
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