I'd like to thank everyone who prayed for my brother-in-law and his family over the past week. It was encouraging to know that the folks I'd grown close to these past two years were there for my family in spirit.


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Friday October 26, 2007

ADDENDUM-----I don't want to bump this to the top since I should have posted it on the general board to begin with. But, I did want to thank all those who have posted so far. I'd wanted to post to each person an individual response even before I left for Texas. Just wasn't able to do it since my children were in a special program at church the Saturday before I left.

I'm back home now and have internet access again. The services were outstanding. My sister is going back to work Monday. She finds work comforting and it was just recently that she'd switched from the night shift in the ER (where she's spent most of her career) to a day shift job in the same hospital working as their Nurse Educator. She works primarily with patients who have diabetes (and their families) but will soon be working with woundcare families as well. It was perfect timing for her to have switched. I can't imagine working in the ER after having lost your husband to traumatic injuries.

He was an organ donor but they were only able to harvest such organs as skin and possibly corneas. His organs had all suffered from lack of oxygen too.


Here's a link to the original thread:

http://www.jpfolks.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=550144&page=2#Post550144

News articles:

http://kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7244702

http://www.texarkanagazette.com/new...-dies-while-en-route-to-emergency-27.php

http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=19036

I'm posting my continued appreciation and gratitude here rather than over on lyric board three since I realize now that I probably should have posted my original prayer request on this board.

I'm home now (have internet access so am now able to post again) and my sister plans to go back to work Monday. The funeral was enormously respectful and that took some of the edge off the bitter reality of his untimely death. No other member of law enforcement has been lost in the line of duty in that small town for as far back as anyone can remember. The entire community as well as the surrounding towns came to pay their respects. They're coping as well as can be expected. Surely it was a sobering reminder of everyone's mortality.

Thank you all again. I'm extremely grateful for your kind words and prayers.

Love,
Vanessa