Prayer Request for our Son

As a result of a workplace accident in December of 2000, our son has had to have everything in his shoulder "screwed and fused."  This solved the problem of his shoulder randomly falling out of joint, but it has done nothing for the damage to the nerves coming from his spine to everything in that quadrant of his body.

Our son will be 40 years old this year.  He has been in extreme physical pain for the last 12 years.  He was in the National Guard preparing to deploy overseas when this workplace accident occurred.  When he was six years old I could have told you he was "military," and I can tell you now that it broke his heart when the National Guard had to let him go because of the injury.

But the pain.  Can you imagine hurting at a scale of 8 out of 10 for TWELVE YEARS 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?  That's over 4,000 consecutive days.  And yet he continues to work a full time job, raise a family, run a farm.  There are days when things are tolerable, and there are days when he is in unbearable, untolerable pain from the get-go.  When manual labor is required he can manage for an hour or two, but then has to take pain medication that leaves him with severe side effects for the rest of the day.

Please pray for our son.  Pray for someone, somewhere in the world to see this blog and know of a medical solution or a medical nerve/pain trial that will help him.  Pray for nano technology or stem cell trials that will regrow healthy nerve tissue.  Pray for, miracle of miracles, a shoulder transplant or something that will restore our son.  Pray for his family because no one goes through eternal agony without affecting those nearest and dearest to him.  Pray for his current medical team and pray for future medical teams to step forward and say, "I think we can help with this."

Please pray.  This blog is now being read in 27 different countries on every continent but the Arctic and Anarctic.  Someone, somewhere on this planet knows how to help our son.  Please pray.  And please get in touch with us by clicking on "comment" at the bottom of the blog.  If you want your comment kept private simply say so.  Otherwise I will publish your comments so others will know you are praying.

Thank you, and may God bless and keep you always.