Day Four: Blessings Pour

Day Four:
A ray of hope has fallen upon our family with a bit of good news. He's responding to commands! The boy is asked to squeeze the nurse's hand in attempts to verify that there is brain activity. He twitches his fingers after a constant stream of imperative gestures to solidify a beautiful truth...HE'S THERE

...and he hears us!

Here is what else he has done:

• Opened his eyes three to four times
• Wiggled his toes
• Blinked when asked

He is now being fed nutrition (feeding tube) and not an IV

He's still one handsome man!!!

Downside:

• Running a temperature
• Bad haircut

What The Family Needs Most:

The LeBarons are not a few to say the least, but the beautiful acts of service are limitless, even to the point of speechlessness. And what I mean by that is simple...we don't know how to react.

We weren't preparing for this to happen, so i'm stumped. We have been given everything from food to fun for the kids, and we welcome it, so thank you. We have been blessed by ward members, co-workers, family, and friends with things necessary to live (and some of the luxuries :). The simple prayers each of you offer builds our family's faith in the Lord and His plan for our dear brother Jackson. 

My Mother Kathi Sue:

It takes a special person to dwell within a tiled jail, resting on unconventional hospital chairs, and eating, once frozen, cafeteria food. She is simply a mother. Mothers will lay down expensive payments, temporary physical discomfort, and their lives for their children. It is a beautiful thing to witness the camaraderie between a mother and her child, or a woman and her niece, nephew, etc... When my mother looms through the family lounge, I feel her grief as she steps slowly, hoping time and prayers will bring Jackson once again into her arms. Her head seems to bob every instant the door that leads to Jackson's sliding wall room opens. Her love is expressed in a myriad of ways, and as simple as attaching herself to the bedside of her youngest son is praiseworthy and admirable.

She showers there in the hospital. She has made herself a home there, and that is where she will stay until Jackson wakes up.

Please continue praying for her. We notice that prayers are relievers of stress and anguish. This reminds me of a beautiful hymn, and an eternal principle that we must come to understand in this life time, to gain knowledge, a spiritual knowledge, of acceptance of the will of the Lord:

When sore trials came upon you,

Did you think to pray?
When your soul was bowed in sorrow,
Balm of Gilead did you borrow
At the gates of day?

 Oh, how praying rests the weary!

Prayer will change the night to day;
So when life seems dark and dreary,
Don’t forget to pray.

Thank you all so much for your beautiful comments...please continue to post them, my mother reads this. :)