Thursday, December 11, 2008

Pray for Tracey and Andrew

My sister Tracey and her husband Andrew moved to Colorado in March, the week my dad passed away. Last weekend, Tracey had to be hospitalized because of a really severe bladder infection. She was released Monday night with some antibiotics and pain medication. When she got home and took her medication, she began to have an allergic reaction. Her throat began to close up and her jaw became stiff. They are both paramedics, so they decided to drive themselves to the hospital which was 6 blocks away. In the car Tracey continued to get worse. It was snowing outside and the ice had froze on the road. Andrew lost control of the car and they crashed into a fence. Andrew was unconscious and Tracey had to flag down help in the snow with her throat closing up. The paramedics came and extricated Andrew from the car, and they were both admitted to the hospital again. Andrew has a broken back and concussion and Tracey fractured her knee. Tracey is home now, but unable to drive to visit Andrew. The police came to the hospital and gave Andrew a ticket for driving too fast for the road conditions, and Tracey lost her job because she is unable to work and they have to replace her immediately. Andrew may need back surgery and will be out of work for about 6 weeks. They don't really know anyone yet in their area to help them. Please pray that that they would recover quickly, and that God would continue to provide for their physical and spiritual needs. One praise already is that I was talking to Kristi Henderson at Bible Study last Friday and she mentioned that she was from Denver. Her parents live very close to Tracey and they are having their pastor come and visit them in the hospital. My prayer is that Tracey and Andrew will experience the love of God through his people in their trial and it will cause them to grow closer in their walk with God because of this trial.

4 comments:

The Chau Family said...

Lauren, we'll be praying for them.

Sandy said...

Oh man, I will keep them both in my prayers!! So glad to hear they made it through the accident and the allergic reaction!

Cherie Baker Vann said...

oh Lauren!!! oh my word!! I will totally be praying!! it's like something out of a movie! I'm so glad that we are God's children and that He takes care of us!

Natalie said...

I haven't read your blog in a while. I am sorry to hear about Tracey. I didn't even know she was married. I will begin to pray for her and her husband.