Our Superman - One Week Later

One week ago, I received a phone call that
will forever change my life. My 21 year old

nephew had been in a terrible car

accident. I was the first person the hospital

could locate because Travis' parents

were both out of town. I was also the first

person to see Travis. What I was

told that morning was DEVASTATING.

Travis has TREMENDOUS

injuries to his brain. His only other

real injury is a fractured hip.

Travis has been in a self induced coma

and also a medically induced paralytic

coma since the accident.

When we reached the 72 hour mark,

the doctors began to feel confident that

Travis would survive. (MIRACLE).

Medically speaking, the injury to his

brain is awful and we do not like what

most of the doctors tell us. Instead,

we believe God has HIS hands on

Travis!!! We believe "only God knows"

how Travis will come out of this.

For now, we wait on Travis

to wake up and we PRAY PRAY PRAY.

As I look back to one week ago,

I know without a doubt that

I have already witnessed a

MIRACLE!!!

Travis has always loved superman.

We have taken that love and run with it

this week! The outpouring of love and

support for Travis and our family has

been UHHH to the MAY-ZING (amazing!).

We have been fed, loved, cared for,

and most of all PRAYED for.

There will never be enough thank you's

in this world. We have taken over the

ICU waiting room and we have a

shrine to OUR SUPERMAN!!!

We are all wearing superman

shirts, tatoos, rings and

bracelets (that his sweet little

girlfriends have been making).

Our entire family and extended family (friends)

have been together since Sunday morning

and Travis's friends FILL the waiting

rooms...doing just that...waiting on Travis!

Here I am with Hunter. He is Travis' 16 year old

brother. I hope you will pray for him, too.

This is truly a nightmare, BUT we are living

through it BY THE GRACE OF GOD.I feel like this post is all over the place.

I have basically come back to my blog

to beg you to keep on praying.

WE NEED A MIRACLE!

I have so much to share and will as I can.

We began this week living minute to minute.

Now I'd say we are living hour to hour.

MRSA, a staff infection, and pneumonia

have set in on Travis. We were told that

these things would happen, but man is

it tough. Everything is tough right now.

Tomorrow (Monday, August 2nd),

Travis will have surgery to have a

trach put in and also a feeding tube.

We are not sure how long Travis

will be in the medically induced

paralytic coma OR in his own coma.

I would also like to ask you to pray

for Lynna, my sister. Travis is her heart.

Pray like only a mommy can pray for

another mommy. I also ask for prayers

for Scott, Travis' dad. I can't tell you how

many times he tells me how he wishes

he could trade places with Travis.

It's just awful. Everything about this is awful.

BUT............

we DO have hope and we DO have faith

in God. We need our Travis

back 100%. He can and will change

the lives of so many with his story.

The depth of my love for Travis is

deep to say the least. We have a very

special bond and I am missing his

hugs, his voice, his million dollar smile

and his LOVE for life. These are the

darkest days my family and I have ever

faced. I quickly found one post I knew I

had written about Travis. You'll have to

scroll down to the bottom of the post to read

a full thing I wrote about him in January of '09.

http://mindyloves.blogspot.com/2009/01/nephew-birthday-love.html

Oh, Travis! I am missing you like crazy!
I am thankful that I talked to you two days before your accident. Sweet boy told me he loved me before I even said it to him. He's just that type of kid. There isn't anybody he couldn't charm. I can't wait to really talk to him again. For now, I'll whisper in his ears and hope and pray that he can hear me.

I can't even remember which day but one day last week (around the 72 hour mark, I believe), we all looked out the window of the hospital to see this double rainbow...A sign of God's promise!

We DO believe in miracles and we are praying for one for our Superman!!! Please join me in praying. Thank you with all of my heart!