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CLARIFICATION ON WOOTTON PRAYER REQUEST
#1 · December 15, 2003, 10:04 am
Posted by: lifeunlimited <lifeunlimited@...>
Friends:
We received two e-mails about Joy Wootton correcting us regarding the e-mail address and also the status on Joy.
The e-mail address should be woottonj4g@onlinehome.de. I hit a typo and had it at onlinehime.
Joy, it turns out, is in her early 20's and not a small child as we had surmised. Read the following to get an idea of just what has happened.
And.... continue praying for her!
Bob and Jo Ann
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Joy Wootton correction:
I wanted to help you understand Joy Wootton's situation more clearly. She is 21, a Junior RN student at Louisiana Baptist College who went "home" for the summer to her parents who serve the Bitburg/Mitterich church in far western Germany. She was weary and tired, but her mother felt that she should be seen by a doctor and so, in early June she was diagnosed with acute Leukemia and began extreme treatments at a German hospital in Trier. She had responded quite well to these treatments that in- cluded radiation, chemotherapy and other approaches, common to German medicine. This has continued all these months and doctors were very positive about the possibility that within a year she would be free of this dreaded disease. They had told her that her youth and her faith would bring good results, eventually, if she would just continue to fight this monster.
The Monday before Thanksgiving she was to return to begin another series of treatments. For the first time she expressed dread at going and concern that she might not be home for Thanksgiving. But, she went and that treatment consisted of a chemical injection into her spine, followed by one in the veins. The one into the spine was administered from her head, or neck area. This is where she was given the wrong injection...the one intended for her veins was erroneously put into the shunt in her head and into her spine. As soon as the error was discovered, extreme measures to "flush out" this chemical from he spine were used. There were some days in which she appeared to be rallying, but the pain was extreme and so, under heavy sedation, it was difficult to determine clearly what was happening. Paralysis began and moved up her body, progressively.
Yesterday's message from her father indicated that the doctors have told this family that she will be gone very soon. A tracheotomy will be done today and the breathing tube removed so she might communicate. Grandparents from the US are there as well as her married brother and family from Shreveport LA where he is a med student.
Prayers for this dear family, special friends of ours, are deeply appreciated. This dear beautiful and godly young woman has suffered so very much. While it is heart-wrenching to imagine the death of one's daughter, heaven will be relief for her and comfort to Jim and Jean. There is also a younger sister, Gwyndolyn, for whom this tragedy has been especially painful. She is a young teenager.
The people of Trinity Baptist Church have done a remarkable job of caring for their pastor and all the extreme needs that have arisen during this time. I understand that one evening last week 50 of their dear church family were at that hospital for a prayer meeting. The testimony of Jesus Christ has been a vital part of this unbelievable story. He has been evident in Joy's life and attitude, as well as that of Jim and Jean.
The entire International Baptist Convention family has grieved over this matter and followed it closely through the CareNet from the master mail file in Frankfurt. I hope that you receive that information.
Please give our kind regards to your church family there.
Serving our Savior here and there,
Dorothy and George Hayner