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| Jessie and a little friend at Christmas Party 2011 |
Miracles really do still happen!
If you don't believe, you surely haven't met Jessica Boone.
It was March 2009 and 16 year old Jessie Boone loved skiing! She was so excited to go skiing on Spring Break with all her friends from church! She was doing great but hit a really icy spot and went out of control and hit a tree with her head. Some of her friends went right to her and got help quickly. They airlifted her out of Glenwood Springs, Colorado to Grand Junction, Colorado to St Marys hospital which is a trauma center. She had a depressed skull fracture on her Right forehead and had to go into surgery that night. Mom and dad flew in around midnight and met Justin and Erin and Scott and John who were with Jessie. She had such massive swelling in her brain they removed both sides of her skull. Her brain is severely injured.
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http://youtu.be/zsN0TNyz-5A - Through it All - Selah
This is when the Dallas Christian School Parents in Prayer began praying for a young girl we had never met from Oklahoma. We all quickly fell in love with sweet Jessica Boone and her family. I don't know how many times we thought for sure she wasn't going to make it, but that little lady fought back! Through it all, we've witnessed the incredible faith of not only dad Bill and mom Lisa but of Jessie. This family knows and trusts God with all their hearts. I think I can safely say that anyone who has followed Jessie's recovery over the last two and a half years has had their faith strengthened, too, just by witnessing this family look to Christ in every struggle and praise Him for every victory.
This first video is Jessie's mom - Lisa sharing their story in April of 2010.
http://youtu.be/mYRzEd4Kw5M - Easter People
This video is from 2010 when Jessie won the Jim Thorpe Award for Courage. A year later, Jessie is still improving and working hard to get even better.
http://youtu.be/7xw2G2Ij94I - Jessica Boone and the Jim Thorpe Award 2010
I'm sending the update Lisa sent yesterday. Sorry for the delay. I hope the video will work for you. I had a little trouble. = (
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Merry Christmas! 12-26-11
Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year in 2012!!
We wanted to close this year with a video to show you how much Jessie has improved since her accident. What a great year we have had as we have seen her continue to grow and heal in so many different ways. It is simply amazing to see how far she has come. She runs a mile 2-3 times a week. Her therapy is only two days a week with Speech and Occupational Therapy focused on memory and thought processing and planning. She continues to show improvement all the time. She is independent in all of her activities of daily living. She needs some supervision in the community as she can lose her way if she is in a place she isn’t familiar with. We are homeschooling focusing primarily on Math and English and will be looking at Vocational Rehab for help in getting her GED and training her in some job skills. In Speech they have been working on a checking account, balancing, writing checks and reconciling and she does very well. In OT this last week she had a budget and went to the mall and did some Christmas shopping for her family.
Jessie is very happy. She loves life, church, her family, and friends. She laughs all the time. She is sleeping all through the night and is on only 2 prescription medications. One to prevent seizures and one to help her liver flow better.
Her liver is one of our main concerns as it continues to show some enlargement and difficulty in draining properly due to a stricture at the site where her common bile duct was repaired status post her accident. She currently sees a hepatologist and a liver surgeon as they monitor her monthly for changes. She will have another MRI and liver biopsy after the first of the year and they will compare it to the ones she had last June to see if there is any further deterioration of her liver. If so, they will proceed with surgery to attempt to correct the stricture. We are praying of course for this to all resolve by itself but if not we have been placed in very competent care. Thank you for your continued prayers in her healing of her brain and her liver.
As I type this, Jessie is sitting in the floor and has wrapped a present by herself and is now putting ribbon on it. She is simply a miracle. And we are so filled with gratitude for what God has given back to us. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your presence in our lives and all you have done to help make this video possible showing the abundant life that Jessie has been given once again…
http://youtu.be/4FmmuFQl_eI - Jessie persistence 2011
May God bless you abundantly and know that the Boones love you.
To God be all the glory, honor, and praise!!
Bill, Lisa, and Jessie Boone
Christmas 2011
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