Posted on 11/16/2004 1:25:00 PM PST by mystery-ak
Edited on 11/20/2004 5:28:58 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Prayers are needed for one of our American heroes. Last week a Blackhawk was shot down by an RBG north of Baghad. The RPG went through the bottom of the aircraft through the cockpit, taking off the pilots legs, and out the top to the rotor system. The co-pilot was able to land the chopper.
The pilot is staff officer Maj Tammy Duckwrth, HHC 1st Bn 106 Avn...she has been transported to Walter Reed and is now in danger of losing an arm.
Update (11/19/04):
Tammy is in ICU and will be there for several more weeks. She is heavily sedated and periodically fights through the sedation and opens her eyes, her mother is there with her. Her color, temp and heart rate has returned to normal but is being kept on a breathing tube as she will have surgeries about every other day to repair her legs. Next week the doctors are going to begin to rebuild the bones in her arm. They are using new cutting edge equipment which has recently passed some clinical/prototypical type testing, in fact, Tammy will be the first they have used this on. She is getting a viable blood supply to her arm, but the nerve bundles have been greatly damaged.
Barring any infection, the wonderful doctors assure us she will survive. One thing that saved her life was her body armor, she had no internal injuries...amazing!
Once again, thank you all for your prayers.
Mike1sg
Prayers for Major Tammy Duckworth going out, for her and her family.
Mike and I thank you all.....
ping for prayer
Could you please post a live link of this thread on the Dose?.....thank you
BTTT
1st sgt, Mike's wishes will be respected. I will pray for her.
Major Tammy Duckworth is in my prayers.
Amen!
Prayers for this brave warrior. May God bless her and keep her and bring good out of her sacrifice.
My prayers are with her. May God protect her and restore her health.
Tammy's pic is posted on #84
Prayers lifted for Maj Tammy Duckwrth.
Canteen Ping to Tonk....
We cry out to You on behalf of this precious child of Yours. May You restore Tammy and lead her through this tremendous trial. Set her on a high place where she may dwell in safety. Grant that she may keep her arm, Father, and may her entire life be restored to her. How great is her need for Your swift and sure intervention! Make haste to help her, O Lord. We ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
I join in prayer for this hero and her family!
My prayers will definitely include this heroine! God bless her and keep her!
prayers for Tammy.
Please hear our prayers, Great Sovereign, as we cry out to Thee on behalf of this heroic young woman, Major Tammy Duckworth! Make haste to help her, Compassionate Master, for the Glory of Your Name, and Your Heart of Merciful Love toward Your children!
Send Thy Blessed Spirit, O King, to Surround, Support, and Comfort her soul, Infusing her with Your Peace, Love and Encouragement, by Grace. Empower her doctors, O Great Physician, with Your Own Wisdom and Knowledge, Granting Divine Insight to them every moment of her treatment, recovery, and rehibilitation. Please, Sweet Master, Grant that she may keep her arm, Precious Jesus, to the Praise of Your Glory and Grace.
Console her, my God, Strengthen her with Your Gracious Spirit, Filling her soul with Your Constant and Abiding Presence of Love. We Commit her to Thee, O Lord of Peace and Grace, Trusting You to Shepherd Tammy through this most severest of Trials, O Faithful Master. In Your Eternally Blessed Name, we pray, and we Thank You for hearing us, amen.
PRAYER FOR MAJ. TAMMY AND HER FAMILY!
GODSPEED!
btt
Prayers for recovery, health and strength for Maj. Tammy and prayers for strength and guidance for her loved ones.
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