REAL MAN TRUCKWORKS & SURVIVAL
GENERAL TOPICS => Faith Discussion => Topic started by: stlaser on December 31, 2015, 11:51:08 PM
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Ashley's daughter Lex was at a campfire this evening. Apparently they were sitting around it & a firework exploded. Don't know a whole lot right now other than that she is currently in ER & has burns to left eye & it is bleeding. They are concerned she may lose vision in this eye. If all of you could lift her & her family up it would greatly be appreciated.
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done.. prayers for this family
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Prayers sent.
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Prayers sent -
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Prayers on the way.
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Prayer sent.
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Done! And we claim healing and full restitution in the name of Jesus!
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Absolutely.....prayers sent for her and her family.
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Done!
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Will do!
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shawn, I apologize for not answering your txt last night, I was already racked out.
prayer sent
can you or ash give us an update please.
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No worries Nate, Ash has his hands full at the moment. So he told me to tell everyone he appreciates your prayers and to post up what he sent me a few minutes ago in a text.
"Ok. Here is what we know. When he (eye dr) left his house this morning, he was 50/50 on the outcome. After seeing the progress this morning, and his 37 years experience, he believes she will make a full recovery and have full range of eyesight. Again, it's a long road, and the next 2-3 days are most crucial. The retina is the biggest factor of whether or not she will regain sight. It's very cloudy in her eye, and he can only partially see the retina, but what he can see of it looks good. Monday or Tuesday he will be able to see the entire retina.
If he sees a tear or anything wrong with the retina, he needs us to be prepared to leave immediately and take her to a retina specialist. I'm assuming Houston or Dallas would be closest? So, all we can do at this point is continue to pray the retina is not injured. If it's not, she will make a full recovery. But we won't know anything until Mon/Tues.
If the retina is injured, a specialist can fix it and get her vision back, as long as it's operable. We just pray we don't have to go that route.
She is basically bed ridden all week next week. No school. And no sports until February at the earliest."
So prayers are still needed but this morning was good news compared to last night. I know Ashley & his wife Alex have had very little if any sleep. Lex their daughter is a tough 13 yr old country girl with a lot of family support. I'm sure when time presents itself Ashley will post up here. Again on their behalf thank you for the support.
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On the way.
The latest sounds promising.
Hoping and praying for full recovery.
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Ash just texted I guess Lex started seeing flashes of light when her eye was closed. The possibility is her retina could be torn. They are currently in route to LSU ER in Shreveport where a specialist can do an ultra sound & see whats going on.
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That family is going to be wasted...Still praying for all of them.
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Definitely a long 24 hours, she's supposed to be getting ultrasound done shortly.
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From Ash
"Doctor just left. All we can do now is wait and keep her still. Going to take her home and get her as comfortable as we can. The ultrasound did not show any detachment. That's good news. Doesn't mean there isn't a tear, but so far it's as good as we can expect. All she can do now is rest that eye and we will find out more on Monday."
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Sent and sent again, god be with you all.
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I feel the news will be good
Prayer really does work. Lex will be fine...Just a bit scary at the moment...
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Continuing to pray for good news for her and her family.
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Good news and I am praying it continues. God has got this.
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Just caught this, so sorry to hear and multiple prayers on your behalf.
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Sun evening update from Ash
"Feeling a lot better. Vision is better as well. Able to see me, count fingers on hand, see some color. Leaps and bounds over yesterday"
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Keep us updated...good job so far!
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From Ash after doctors visit today
"Ok. Dr Lyons said she looks better than he would have expected for this type of injury. There is still a lot of swelling, but that will go away. There is a traumatic cataract that has formed, and that is what's blocking her vision. That will be a simple 10 min operation and she will be fixed. He believes after removal of the cataract she will regain 100% of her vision and right back to the same vision as if the accident never happened."
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Thank GOD, and more prayers sent!!
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My response to Ash was "praise our Lord Jesus Christ"
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Thank you Jesus for answered prayers!
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AMEN!
Now tell me group prayer has no affect heathens! He amazes me hourly :)
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Amen! Retina damage is no joke (I've had 2 detachments myself), so glad her retina was not torn or detached . Praise Jesus!
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Such good news! I am sure she and her family are breathing a serious sigh of relief. Continued prayers for a total recovery from this.
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Amen! Continued prayers and thanksgiving-
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Let's just accept this as answered prayer
Because that is exactly what has happened here!
I just texted Ash and while I was doing so this scripture came to mind immediately:
James 5:16King James Version (KJV)
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
This is nothing less than the hand of the father we have witnessed here with this precious child of God. And your prayers rose like a chorus to the throne and God heard us!
Now, go ahead...And smile!
You have a reason to be happy!
Thank you Father God for answered prayer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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God is good. It is called mercy and grace.
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God is GREAT as is the faith of this group. Give her a good hug Ash
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Amen!
Such great news!
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Evening Gentlemen, and Don.... ;D
First off just wanted to say how blessed and gracious Lex is for having all of you reach out and lift her up in prayer. Alex and I thank each and every one of you. Throughout this entire ordeal, I have just been amazed out the outpouring support and prayers that we have received. God is so good, and it shows each and every day.
All is well with Lex's eye. Most of the abrasions have healed over, the pooling of blood in her eye has ceased a few days ago, and her body has finally absorbed all the blood. Basically, the eye is clear from the outside looking in. The retina and optic nerve were not injured, which is a miracle of in itself. She did suffer a traumatic cataract, and part of the iris detached. The cataract will be a simple 10 min operation. They will look at the iris while doing the surgery, and make a decision on it at that time. The detachment of the iris is basically cosmetic anyway. Both eye doctors agree that after the cataract is removed, she will be back to 100%, as if the accident never happened. So, other than missing a week and a half of school, and not being able to finish out her basketball games for this year, she will be her great self again by February.
Both eye doctors wrote this up as a miracle on their list. They claimed that for an eye to come in with as much damage as hers', there is always retinal/optic nerve damage. Always. She had none. The specialist said he has never seen a case like this. Never. It's a first. It's like that eye just took all frontal damage, and the back of the eye, by some miracle, held together. The other eye doctor, who has 37 years experience, said 99% of the time, that eye would have been lost. He has seen it happen too often. He is a solid Christian man, and he has seen a handful of miracles in his 37 years, and he told all of us to add this to the list, because there is not a doubt in his opinion that this was a complete miracle. This case just does not turn out as well as it has.
Now I'll give some explanation of what happened....
Alex, my two girls, my wife's first cousin, and I were just having a calm evening. Alex had bought one of those big bundle packages of fireworks. You know the kind. All wrapped up with a ton of different fireworks, all in one box. Well, we started about 9:00. Addison, my 8 year old, and I were setting of all the fireworks. We had a fire going in our fire pit, and Alex, Carly, and Alexis were sitting around it staying warm. By 10:00, we were basically done. Throughout the night, after we had set off different fireworks, I would pick them up and set them in the fire. Easy clean up. No hassle, no mess the next morning. Well, as I was cleaning up, Alex and I were standing at the empty box of fireworks and grabbing up the left over trash to burn. There were a couple of the long tubes with a base, the ones you set the artillery shells down inside of with a long fuse that comes out the top. Well, I didn't use them. I had a couple left over tubes from the 4th of July, and we used them instead. Alex asked me if I wanted to save them, and I told her nope, didn't need them. Just put them in the fire. So, we walked outside, Alex set the tubes in the fire, and I continued on to the house. Alexis and Alex were sitting right beside the fire. 3-4' away. Carly and Addison had gotten up and were walking toward my shop. About the time I got to the front door, I heard the explosion. I ran toward the fire to see what had happened. About the time I rounded the corner of the house, Lex had come too, and started screaming. Alex was right beside her, but wasn't injured. Her jacket had suffered a lot of sever burns though. We got Lex up and inside the house. There was a lot of blood coming from the eye, and she couldn't see anything. We could cover her right eye, and everything would go black. Her left eye sustained the injury. The right eye was perfectly fine and unharmed. We rushed her to the hospital, and the er doctors went to work. He did all he could, then called in the eye doctor about 11:00. At that time, the only thing Alexis could see was if you shined a flashlight directly into her eye, then moved it away. She would see faint light, and that was it. I believe everyone knows about what happened from that point on... The eye doctor did call us around her that night, and prayed for her right there in front of everyone. He sent us home and said all we can do is pray because at this point, it's in God's hands...
This was just a freak accident. It was definitely an artillery shell that exploded. It exploded out the side of one of the tubes that were put in the fire. We don't know where it came from, because we never put one down the tube. All we can assume is that there was a shell pre-loaded in one of the tubes, and we didn't know. There was no alcohol involved, nothing to impair my judgment or senses. I double checked everything before it was put in the fire. I just assumed the tubes were empty, didn't use them, so didn't check them. Just cant be too careful.
Again, thank you all so much for all the prayers. They were definitely answered.
As of now, we are going back to the specialist Monday morning, then to the surgeon Tuesday. They will do the surgery on the following Monday. After that, I'm sure we will have more check ups with the doctors, but we should be in the all clear.
I will continue to update everyone as I can throughout this process.
Thank you.
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Ash, so glad things turned out so good, God listened and your daughter is doing fine now. What a blessing. Take care, and give her an extra hug this evening and tell her it is from all at Real Man.
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^^^^^^^ X2 :)
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Thank you Lord!
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Praise God, and ^^^^^x3
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Great news Ash and Thank you God !
I'm sorry you had to go through that with one of your loved ones.
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Sending my prayers for a quick recovery. We often do the same with our firework trash. I will defiantly be more careful myself. I always throw it the fire because of the reasons you stated along with I don't want my trash can of fire in the middle of the night.