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Urgent Prayer Request for My Young Cousin, Severe Head Injury - Update at #2982
My family | Thursday January 25, 2007 | GretchenM

Posted on 01/25/2007 9:37:13 AM PST by GretchenM

Edited on 02/14/2007 3:30:51 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

My aunt and uncle sent this out to our family at 6:30 AM today. Carrie is my young cousin, a very gifted artist, and the second eldest among her siblings. She and her family are in Michigan.

Prayer reqeust from my aunt and uncle (Carrie is their granddaughter).

This morning on her way to work Carrie's car slid on the highway and into a tree. She has very bad injuries, especially to her head. Her brain is swelling and she is now in surgery. They plan to open her skull to allow for the swelling, and she is not responding.

They don't give her parents a lot of hope. We are telling everyone so you can join us in praying for our dear Caroline. They called her parents about 7:45 this morning and they're at the hospital now.



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KEYWORDS: carrie; gretchenm; prayer
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To: GretchenM

Good news, Carrie is making progress. More prayers are on the way.


381 posted on 01/29/2007 7:11:07 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GretchenM

Thank you very much for the update. Saying and sending continued prayers for Carrie and your family.


382 posted on 01/29/2007 8:06:17 AM PST by jdm
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To: GretchenM
Continued prayers for Carrie's continuing recovery. All of this is very good news.

PLEASE tell your relatives that oftentimes people in a coma can hear everything going on in the room around them. A good friend's father fell and hit his head HARD - was in a light coma for several days - he appeared to be completely unconscious and unresponsive, but he told us afterwards he could hear everything that was going on around him. Positive, loving, encouraging words would be SO good for Carrie to hear!

383 posted on 01/29/2007 8:15:28 AM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: GretchenM

My sympathies and best wishes for a good outcome.


384 posted on 01/29/2007 8:16:52 AM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: GretchenM

Prayers for Carrie....~~Pandora~~


385 posted on 01/29/2007 9:10:21 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ......efg and dilligaf?)
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To: GretchenM

Thanks for the news on Carrie's condition. I'll keep praying for a speedy recovery.


386 posted on 01/29/2007 9:45:08 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: GretchenM
Thank you for Every Update, my Sister in Christ, and Prayers are Continuing.

O Lord, our Hallelujah's Arise to our Mighty King! Your Greatness, Your Grace, Your Love; how Merciful You are; how Very Gracious! So Filled with Compassions and Peace. Thank You for Covering Carrie with Tender Grace. O Lord, for the Sake of Thy Merciful Love, Make Carrie a Testimony to Thy Name. Bless Many through her; Raise her to Show Forth Thy Praise. Blanket her Family with Comfort, and Rescue this Beautiful and Precious Life.

In the Name of His Majesty our King, we Praise You, O God, amen.

387 posted on 01/29/2007 11:47:31 AM PST by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!)
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Prior updates are at posts 88, 119, 191, 245, 295, and 356

Update Monday Morning

A[ccident] + 5
Carrie's Aunt D called this morning after talking with Carrie's mom at the hospital. She said the doctors decided it was too early to bring Carrie out of the induced coma. Her cranial pressure is at 13 and it varies. It ought to stabilize better. If it should get to 20, the family has to get out of the way, so we need it stabilized. It has been at 10, or even 8, and sometimes 14. They also want the swelling down enough to identify where they marked for the surgery.

Carrie will have another CT scan today. They will check on everything, and maybe check on a couple of blood clots -- which they didn't seem too concerned about the other day.

(Sister) L had planned to go home today, but she is going to stay longer. She needs to be there.

L wrote this a.m. that Carrie had a good night. That's good. We keep them in our thoughts and prayers. Love, [my aunt and uncle]

From L on Thursday, the day of the accident

[This regards talking to Carrie in her coma, speaking life and positive words to her, and canceling negative things spoken about her and in her hearing. I was very glad to see this.]

The doctors have commented several times that the situation is very grave and that we shouldn’t expect Caroline to survive.

We have been praying that those words wouldn’t find fertile soil. Please join in that renunciation – we certainly appreciate the doctor’s position in curtailing any false hopes- however – our hope in the Author of life, our risen Lord Jesus, is not false.

We just don’t want to accept words that don’t speak to life for Caroline.


388 posted on 01/29/2007 11:54:44 AM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: GretchenM

Continued prayers, ((( GEM )))


389 posted on 01/29/2007 11:56:00 AM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: GretchenM

More prayers for the pressure to stabliize.


390 posted on 01/29/2007 11:58:32 AM PST by WV Mountain Mama (Relax, it was probably a joke.)
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To: GretchenM
Recovery from seemingly impossible odds is possible
391 posted on 01/29/2007 12:03:20 PM PST by pabianice
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To: GretchenM

Prayers continuing.


392 posted on 01/29/2007 12:03:59 PM PST by groanup (Limited government is the answer. Now, what's the question?)
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To: GretchenM
Holy Father,

We speak life, health, and healing through the power of the Spirit and pray that You would whisper these words in Carrie's heart as You continue to sustain her. Strengthen her by might by Your Spirit in her inner being and may her own spirit rise up and call You Blessed. We confess that the same Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead is within her, and we pray that she would receive every good and perfect gift that You have for her. Thank You for the powerful plans You have for her, Lord. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

393 posted on 01/29/2007 12:04:34 PM PST by Faith
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To: AnAmericanMother
PLEASE tell your relatives that oftentimes people in a coma can hear everything going on in the room around them.

AAM, and all others who have remarked on this, I have passed on this wisdom. I was unconscious for four days when I was 17 and I know from that awful experience that you can still hear while "out." And that negative things should never be spoken in the presence of the patient, and that positive things, especially things such as, "This is what happened, this is what the doctors are doing; we are here for you. we will stay here with you, and etc. etc. etc.," have a massive impact for good on the patient.

394 posted on 01/29/2007 12:05:37 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: GretchenM
The doctors have commented several times that the situation is very grave and that we shouldn’t expect Caroline to survive.

The doctor's that caused my mom's stroke also said the same thing. We ignored them and stayed by her side. We read to her, we played music and she came out of the coma a month later. Keep up the good work.

395 posted on 01/29/2007 12:05:44 PM PST by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: GretchenM

More prayers for Carrie. Thanks for the update!


396 posted on 01/29/2007 12:14:58 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GretchenM

Prayers sent


397 posted on 01/29/2007 12:15:45 PM PST by Hydroshock (Duncan Hunter For President.)
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To: GretchenM

PRAYERS CONTINUE!


398 posted on 01/29/2007 12:16:10 PM PST by alpha-8-25-02 ("SAVED BY GRACE AND GRACE ALONE")
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To: GretchenM
Prayer up again for Carrie and family.

Notre pere, qui etres aux cieu,
Que votre nom soit sanctifier, que votre reigne arrive,
Que votre volunte soit faite, sur la terre, comme au ciel.
Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain de ce jour.
Pardonne-nous nos offenses, comme nous pardonnons aussi
A ceux qui nous ont offensés.
Et ne nous soumets pas à la tentation, mais délivre-nous du Mal.
Car c'est à toi qu'appartiennent le règne, la puissance et la gloire,
Pour les siècles des siècles.

Je vous salue, Marie, pleine de grâces, le Seigneur est avec vous,
Vous êtes bénie entre toutes les femmes, et Jésus le fruit de vos entrailles est béni.
Sainte Marie, Mère de Dieu, priez pour nous pauvres pécheurs,
maintenant, et à l'heure de notre mort.
Ainsi-soit-il.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

399 posted on 01/29/2007 12:16:23 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: GretchenM; Lx
Yes - music is good, reading favorite books is good (nothing too exciting!) And just being there and being positive.

More prayers for Carrie & your whole family.

400 posted on 01/29/2007 12:16:59 PM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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