Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Miracles and Tender Mercies Among Tragedy...

Well to say our family has been experiencing some hard times this year would be somewhat of an understatement. Between the death, disease, accident, surgeries, freak occurances and heartbreaking moments we have grown closer and have seen the tender mercies of the Lord and even experiences miracles along the way. One Family night as I was breaking yet another piece of bad news to my tender children regarding members of our extended family, they wept but then they started sharing scripture and with me and sharing evidences that they have not been left comfortless during this time. They are amazing and an wonderful testimony to me.
I believe we chose our trials before this earth and I just want to learn and experience all I can here so I can return to my Father in Heaven refined and ready. To have learned what I came here to learn and done what I came here to do. I know that as we face our trials with the knowlege of that bigger plan that we can always see the miracles and tender mercies and feel the angles surrounding us and the Holy Spirit guide us for the Lord will not leave us comfortless!!

Kenny's surgery to remove his bone tumor went well. He is healing fast...




I debated on including pictures of Brooklynn's accident but it is a testiment to the miracles that I spoke of so I will. If you have a weak stomach, consider yourself warned before you start the slide show.

Brooklynn and I ran into eachother in the kitchen. I had a cup of hot water from our water cooler, it spilled down her back. She hit the floor screaming and I ripped off her shirt. When I did, most of her skin came with it. I poured luke warm water over her back and was yelling for McKenna to text Dad and let him know we need to head to the ER. Brooklynn stopped crying and just calmly looked at me with a sheet white face and said, "it's ok Mom, it doesn't hurt any more." This freaked me out even more since she was shaking violentley and I could see even more skin sluffing off as I poured the water over her. Ken came in the door just then, calm and collected. We got her to the ER in recored time, no wait. There they declared that she had 2nd and possibly 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body. They sent us over to the Maricopa County Burn Center where they had to scrub and redress the wounds. We were told to scrub and change her bandages 2 to 3 times a day. Thanks to my amazing sister Amy who was with me at every "burn out" center visit (as Brooklynn calles it), and every single bandage change, we actually made it through this somewhat intact. We were told that she may need grafts and that it could take up to four weeks of these painful treatments and dressings before we would know how bad the scarring would be. We were hopefull after a blessing but were not prepared for the healing pace that truly was a miracle. With 14 days her skin had healed completley. There is only a slight discoloration left but we are told that if we keep her out of the sun for a year then there will be no evidence of the accident. It is a true miracle! The staff at the "burn out" center asked us if we were using some alternate treatment. They were so surprised by her recovery time. So many sweet cards and gifts, meals and prayers on her behalf were truly appreciated.

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