To everyone who has been praying for the daughter of Commander Wes Burns: >From: "Harrison, Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: FW: >Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:06:08 -0600 > >Dear Royal Ranger Commanders, > >My dad, Commander Wes Burns, wanted you to know he got all your emails and >they have been a real source of strength and comfort during a very trying >week. Below was the original status email sent to our family. That was >Wednesday, day 5. Today is Friday, day 7. > >All tubes are out, Jaine walked up and down the hall twice today. She sat >up and fed herself. She has talked at length, remembers everything from >before the shooting, but not the shooting itself. There is no apparent >mental incapacity at all. > >Thank you, thank you for your prayers. God is greatly to be praised for He >has done great things for her this week. > >Please don't stop praying, we are believing for the miracles to keep >coming. Please pray for sight in her left eye, pray for sinuses several of >which are broken and for her emotions as she will soon remember or learn >that her friend was ed trying to rescue her. > >In His Service, >Wes Burns (from daughter Joy) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Harrison, Joy > > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 1:53 PM > > To: Family and Friends > > Subject: > > > > Dear Friends & Family, > > > > I thought you might like a report on Jaine. First of all, let me >publicly thank God for saving her life. The doctors told us most people >with her injuries would not live more than a few minutes. I know all of >you have heard part of the story, so I'll start with what we know. > > > > Jaine was shot in the head last Thursday night in a bungled robbery >attempt. Wrong place at the wrong time. A friend with her was also shot >in the head and died. His name was Aaron Powell. A young man that had >been in our youth group years ago, very close to our entire family, a >wonderful musician but most of all a mighty intercessor. Please pray for >his family. > > > > We don't know who did it. Jaine was a random victim, Aaron came to her >rescue and fought the attacker. He or they fled without taking anything >but Jaine's gun which she had in her jeep. Finding the gun is the best >lead the police have. Please pray for her attacker's to be found and >saved. They will spend a long time in prison, let it be as missionaries. > > > > Jaine was shot twice, one bullet grazed her head, the second entered the >center of her forehead and is now lodged in soft tissue near her left ear. >No they don't intend to remove it unless it causes problems later, a lot of >people walk around with shrapnel or bullet slugs in them all their lives. . > She stayed conscious at the scene, was able to tell police she did not >know her attacker and that they got her gun. She was able to tell the EMT >and admitting physician were the pain was in her left eye. To tell them to >call her sister and parents, they could only understand Mom and Dad's >names. > > > > The left frontal lobe and 1/3 of the right frontal lobe are involved. >All the bones around her left eye are fractured as are several of the >sinuses. The left eye is not responding, the doctors have warned us it is >probably gone. But we believe the report of the Lord and know our God who >heals blind eyes. YES! > > > > Once at the hospital, she was taken immediately into surgery to remove >bone and bullet fragments from the brain, 7 1/2 long hours later she was >taken to ICU in critical condition. > > > > As soon as she was coming around after surgery she began responding to >voice commands, could hold up 2 fingers and squeeze our hands so we were >very much rejoicing at this miracle. Swelling of the brain and infection >were the next big risks. Until she became conscious and they could remove >the breathing and feeding tubes, we wouldn't know just how lucid she was. > > > > Jaine's full name is Andrea Jaine Burns London and there is an article >about the bungled robbery in the Dallas Morning News Saturday paper in the >Metropolitan section "Man ed by robbers...". It was available on the >Internet. The man was a long time family friend (he was even in my >husband's youth group when he was a kid), anyway his funeral was Monday and >glorious. He has a wonderful> voice and sang all three songs at his own >funeral. > > > > Because of the violent nature of the crime and her possible ability to >identify the attackers, she's listed as an "X" patient. Which means she is >invisible. The hospital will deny she is there and refuse to give any >information on her to anyone outside the family. I will try to send an >update from time to time. > > > > Wednesday: Jaine is doing marvelous today. There were several major >miracles yesterday, thank you Jesus! > > > > They removed the breathing and feeding tubes yesterday afternoon; within >minutes she was talking! She's now off all sedation, sitting up on her own >and able to swallow. She's asking questions. They expect to move her out >of ICU and into a room today. They even told us she may be home before >Christmas. > > > > The doctors and nurses are amazed. God is so good. He definitely has >placed His hand on Jaine. > > > > The shooting only happened last Thursday night with medical expectations >that she wouldn't live, if she lived would probably not regain >consciousness for weeks or months, would probably not be there mentally if >she did live and regain consciousness, the list of would nots goes on and >on. > > > > Please continue to pray for her left eye to be healed which is right now >blind, the doctors suspect permanently. Also we don't know what emotional >or personality damage has been done and she does not yet know of the >of her friend. > > > > Joy Harrison > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com _______ Note: the address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" no longer works. Please use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") instead. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://rangernet.org/subscribe.htm and fill out the form. "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
