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Main Boards => Prayers/Concerns/Honors/Ailments => Topic started by: wscruggs on January 10, 2012, 10:30:00 PM
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A good friend of mine had a bad fourwheeler wreck last week. They had been working on a bike and was trying to get it going so they hooked it on to anouther fourwheeler to pull start it. They got it going and was headed back to the house his father in law was in the lead when he turned back and looked my friends bike was standing up on it side. He went back and found Zip face down in the barditch. The bike had fliped landing on him crushing his shoulder breaking four ribs puncturing a lung lacerating his liver and crushing his skull. He had been stable and the swelling in his brain had gone down. Today the swelling increased and they had to remove a portion of his skull to keep from further brain injury. Zip is a one hell of a good guy allways willing to help anyone out. I have been with him and had to ask where we were going and have him respond we were heading to so and so to take them some food cause they didn't have enought to eat. They have had to keep him in a coma this whole time. He has a daughter who is five a son that is two and a wonderful wife. Please pray for him and his family as they all have a long road to recovery.
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Prayers from Colorado :pray:
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Prayers sent from east Texas.
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One just never knows... :( :(
Prayers for comfort for the family, more friends like you to step up and help the family and special prayers for God's will be for complete healing for Zip and full restoration!
Lord in your mercy...
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Prayers for Zip. :pray:
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Prayers sent from Pa. for your friend Zip.
Shick
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I can't add more than what Doc said...God bless your friend and his family.
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Thank you all. He is stable. No visitors except his wife and mom for at least a month.
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Keep us posted, please...
Thank you for you and your friends stepping up to help the family...
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I will and thank you all. Everyone is in shock. It isn't real untill it afects your friends and family. I hurt for them and there is not anything I can do for them. I feel helpless
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A hospice chaplin, speaking to me of visiting with my Dad when he just lies there adn sleeps, said what I will share with you...in reply to your comment, "there is nothing I can do"...
"Consider the ministry of "presence"...
* Watch the kids, take them for pizza while the mom and family unwind
* Get their wash and do it for them
* Be the ones to now take groceries to their house...
All these simple things you may already be doing in Christian Love, but think it is little because you cannot impact the momentary outcome of Zip's condition...
It is always the small jestures of love that will be remembered the longest and lift up others.
Keep the Son in your eyes!
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Prayers for a full recovery along with understanding and faith for the family.
Thy will be done.......... :pray:
Winterhawk1960
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Praying for strength for him, family, and friends.
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Prayers from the Gulf of Mexico. Hope all will be well with this family.......God bless you and yours.......Dusty
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Prayers sent for God's comfort and strength
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Zip has been stable for the last 24 hours and if he stays stable for the next 48 hours they are going to start to bring him out of the induced coma.
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Great news!!!
Prayers continue for his recovery to be complete and prayers for the family to stay strong and friends to abound in love around them.
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Great News.
Hope Zip continues to improve and stays away from 4 wheelers from now on.
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Prayers and Hope of a speedy recovery sent from Flat Rock.
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Going to start to bring him out of the coma today
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May God's Grace be on Zip and the medical team as he is brought back to consciousness and all goes well.
Lord, in your mercy...
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Praying for Zip
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They are still bringing him out everyone is still hopefull
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Sure do get an education on this site...I didn't realize they would bring someone out of a coma over a 3 day period...
Redoubling prayers this Sunday AM for Zip to come out with nothing more than a headache...
Lord, in your Mercy... hear our prayers.
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They have to wean him off it over several days in case his brain starts to swell during the process.
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Wow... Doc's don't have it easy and it's so easy to critique them when it goes wrong...
Just never knew they did that so gradual.
Prayers continue...for Zip and for his medical team!
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Please continue to pray things aren't looking very good right now. We will know more after Thursday
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Wes,
Sorry to hear things look bleak. HOpefully, the Lord's will for Zip is full recovery and Zip will fight from wherever he is inside that body and battered brain and make it back to embrace his family.
Prayers continue for God's will and the Peace that passes all understanding to be with his loved ones and friends.
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Prayers for Zip
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They told the family they were going to have to decide weather or not to take him off the breathing machean around 7 tonight but just got word that the last cat scan showed improvement so they are going to leave him on it for a few more days. Please keep the prayers coming.
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:pray:
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Prayers for Zip, His Family and Friends.
Butch L
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Zip passed sometime last night around midnight. He will truly be missed by all.
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Wes,
I'm sorry for your loss of a good man in your world.
God always answers prayers, but sometimes His answer is a caring "NO"--- His will is perfect in an imperfect world.
Prayers for God's peace to wrap his family and loved ones tightly and hold them thru this difficult time.
I lost a good HS friend mysteriously in a freak situation. His widow and I have conferred and agree that if he'd have had to live with serious limitations, he'd have gone berserk and taken everyone with him... God's will is always best in the long run...
Prayers for peace and strength for all.
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Prayers for peace and healing of the family. So sorry for the loss. It is never easy.
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Prayers for family and friends from here...
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I'm so sorry to hear this. Prayers for God's comfort and healing for family and friends.
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The funeral is tomorrow we have been working on his place since Saturday thring to get it ready for his burial. I wouldn't beleave it if I hadn't seen it myself but we moved a mountain. Well at least the top part of it. We finally got the proper paper work to get to bury him up there but they weren't going to stop us even if we hadn't. His dogs usually won't let anyone get out of there vehicle unless Zip was there but they haven't bothered anyone. They know he isn't coming back. I have attended a lot of funerals but this is one I truly don't want to have to go to. Please continue to pray for the family in this time of need.
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Prayers for strength & comfort
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Wow....
Sounds like Zip was quite a man to generate such emotion. Amazing bit about the dogs.
Know God's peace, Wes, and His strength. HE brought you to this and will get your all thru this. Even Christ cried for His friend, Lazarus. It's ok.
The next MONTHS and YEAR will be the hardest for his family.
Lord in your Mercy...
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Beechnut Bottom Noodlers
Born on the river
Raised in a cage
Hunting and noodling
Is all we crave.
Beavers and snakes
We really don't care
To us it's really just a dare
We've waited all year
For that east bank cave
Don't get scared now!
To us it's just anouther day.
We've learned from the best
And the best we will stay
Because we have a tradition
To pass down the way.
But don't think we haven't pay our dues
Between Wa****a widows
And sleepless nights to
In all of this I have a favor to ask of you.
When we die
If you bury us at all
Bury us on the Wa****a
Put up a little sign
Make it look cool
Let it read
THESE WERE SOME NOODLING FOOLS
R.I.P my friend R.I.P
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Originally posted by wscruggs:
Beechnut Bottom Noodlers
Born on the river
Raised in a cage
Hunting and noodling
Is all we crave.
Beavers and snakes
We really don't care
To us it's really just a dare
We've waited all year
For that east bank cave
Don't get scared now!
To us it's just anouther day.
We've learned from the best
And the best we will stay
Because we have a tradition
To pass down the way.
But don't think we haven't pay our dues
Between Wa****a Widows
And sleepless nights to
In all of this I have a favor to ask of you.
When we die
If you bury us at all
Bury us on the Wa****a
Put up a little sign
Make it look cool
Let it read
THESE WERE SOME NOODLING FOOLS
R.I.P my friend R.I.P
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For some reason it will not let me post the name of he river that me and all of my frindes were raised on. I love you all.
R.I.P Zippo We will all miss you
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Prayers continue for you and your friends. God already holds Zip close.
Keep the Son in your eyes!