PRAYER REQUEST

First, please let me apologize for being “lax” on my updates as of recent. I will send you some more information on what Jodie has been up to lately, including her birthday (Aug. 31) in a later posting.

Most importantly for now, I am asking for your special prayers for Jodie today. Before noon today, Timber Ridge called Mama to let her know that Jodie has been rushed to Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton, AR. After receiving the phone call, Mama immediately left Greenwood and is on her way to Benton to be with Jodie and speak to the doctors (it’s a 4 hour drive). During Jodie’s morning physical therapy session, she started to have a seizure – a very serious one. For those who know background of Jodie, she did have minor (black out, no shaking) seizures before her accident, but the one she suffered this morning was more severe and included her body shaking and jolting. The seizure lasted about an hour. Nurses were with Jodie the entire time, talking with her and continuously taking her vital signs. They did tell us that Jodie was somewhat responsive to them during this time – which is a positive sign as most people are not responsive during a seizure.

Once the ambulance arrived, they gave Jodie some medication that caused her to stop seizuring and she is now resting at the hospital. The have done x-rays and blood work and as I am typing, Mama just called (she is still en route) to say that Jodie’s lab-work has come back positive and there are no problems they can find from those results. Mama has been in touch with Jodie’s neurosurgeon here in Jackson and they are all requesting for the doctors at Saline to order a CT Scan and EEG, which will hopefully offer more information or insight into what may have caused the seizure.

This is all the information that we have right now. We do know, however, that doctors have told us from the beginning (since right after the accident) that seizures usually occur following a brain trauma, but Jodie has been fortunate enough to not have had any thus far (15 months post-accident). So, with that being said, this could mean that it may be something the doctors have to address with her medication or it could mean that there is a problem that brought on the seizure that will need to be investigated further by the doctors.

For now, we will have to wait and pray that there is nothing wrong and that it will not happen again. The rest of us are on stand-by waiting to hear more from Mama (once she arrives) and from the doctors before we make a move. I will keep you posted as we find out more information.

As we have known from the beginning, along the journey to Jodie's recovery we must face the good and the bad - and always the uncertain. Please join us in praying for Jodie and knowing that God is in control and is taking care of her.

Please pray for Jodie and for Mama as she travels to get to Jodie.

I will post updates to this page, Jodie’s blog. Furthermore, all future updates on Jodie will also be posted here – I will no longer send them via email - EXCEPT for the next few and I will alert you by email of a posting to the site. While I have been delinquent in sending an update recently, I have been working to create this site to make it easier for those who care about Jodie to receive information on her. Sometimes there have been problems with the emails not being received by some, others just now joining the email to get past updates, etc. I hope you will enjoy this site as a central place to receive information and updates on Jodie. You may also post your own comments to this site, if you wish, by clicking on the "comments" link below each posting. Thank you and please check back often.