my sister, janice, and her husband, mike, were in a motorcycle accident this afternoon. they were both taken to a trauma center here in austin, and both are stabile. praise God our Father! they live about 15-20 mins. from me, and this particular sister is the one i am and have always been closest to. both in age and personality. and, janice has listened to me talk many times about ray's teachings. she is very ripe to the Truth, and indeed already understands that when you die you sleep in death, and that the whole heaven and hell yada yada we learned growing up as kids in the first baptist church, was well, bunk. anyway, my sister's injuries are worse than my brother-in-laws. janice's left lower leg was shattered in 3 places, between the knee and the mid-lower leg. she told me she had just taken off her riding gloves, right before the accident. and her hands and fingers paid the price. she has a significant gash in the palm of her left hand. this was indeed significant, as i was standing right next to the trauma doc when she was looking at my sister's hand, she was showing me that you could see the tendons flex as the doc had my sister flex her fingers. bottom line with janice is, they will do surgery on her left leg on monday to put pins in the shattered bone. early this evening she went into surgery so they could get a better look at the gash in her palm. they had to totally knock her out to get a look at it. it was bad. it is 3/4 -1 in. deep and was hanging on by a small section of skin. praise God again! anyway, in surgery they were able to clean the wound out and dress it. she will most likely need plastic surgery on the hand because the doc told me there was a section of skin missing. possible skin graft would be needed. she has stitches on 4 fingers at the knuckles on her right hand, and not sure how many knuckles were stitched up on the left hand, as it was bandaged before she came too. i saw them before they had been cleaned up and it looked like she had drug her lower arms and hands on the pavement. because, well, she actually did just that. but, there didn't appear to be any broken bones in the hands or forearms. her husband, mike, has a lacerated spleen, and 2 broken ribs at his lower back, at the back part of his ribcage. he has a significant gash right above his left eyebrow which required stitches. he (and janice too) have various places with road rash and cuts, large areas of deep bruising, but Praise God again! the doc told us that per the ct scan, the spleen wasn't as bad as originally thought, and they are keeping him in icu to observe the bleeding in the spleen. if the bleeding stops, the spleen can heal itself, but if the bleeding continues, they will remove the spleen. so, i apologize for so many details, but wanted to let you know of their individual, specific needs, so that specific prayers could be lifted. i will keep you updated on their progress, and let you know a little more about the accident. thank you in advance for your thoughts and prayers, and for being my family too.
claudia
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