Wednesday, October 10, 2007

4:31am Wednesday

We woke up from a phone call from David's commanding officer, Mike, who said that him and the 3 guys involved in the accident met David at the flight line. He said, David physically looked great (in spite of the tubes) with only a few scratches on his nose! He looked like he was just sleeping peacefully. Dan Wooten, the driver was crying pretty hard when he saw David according to Mike. We again sent our hugs to Dan through Mike and told him we have lots of people praying for those boys. Keep lifting them up in prayer, expecially that God would show His undenyable grace to these boys who may or may not know Him personally...yet!
David is being flown in an aerovac C-21 plane. He will arriving in Germany around 8 or 9 am this morning where they will do some more test and take more thorough images from head to toe. They are going to take him off the sedatives and paralysers to do some neurological testing and other things. They will see how he does without these drugs and determine whether they need to put him back on them. You can be praying specifically for the doctors who will be with him: Dr. Sang is the head of the team with him on the plane and Dr. Flaherty is the dr. who will see him in the ICU in Germany.
Now for the not so good news, David will probably be leaving Germany by Friday to come to the states due to so many war injuries being transfered to this hospital from Iraq. Dr. Lee told mom and dad not to fly out tomorrow because they will probably just miss him. He could be somewhere in the States as early as Saturday. The good news is that they may be able to take him to a hospital closer to home. It doesn't necessarily have to be in DC. They just want a hospital that has longstanding ICU care and access to all the therapy stuff he is going to need.
So! We wait to hear more...once again! What a rollercoaster ride we are all on! Thanks to all of your prayers and visits. Everyone has just been amazing to my mom and dad (and me as well!)
God is good and there's no better place for us to be than in His hands...amen???