Wednesday Afternoon

Stan and Bethany Simmons

Bethany is out of the hospital and resting at home. Please continue to pray for this couple as they look forward to a new baby this summer.

Kathy Jo Thompson

I’m home! We flew home on Monday around 2pm. The flight and the drive back home was horrible (PAIN!!!) but the wheelchair people at the airport were nice. Before we left Washington, Mom found a little pizza place in the airport and told me I had to eat, she was pulling rank. She bought me a slice and I don’t know if it was because I had been eating hospital food or that I was hungry but man tha was the BEST pizza I ever had. I was hurting so bad that when we got home I took a pain pill and went to bed. I woke up once to put more ice on my back and to take more medicine but slept til about 7am. It is good to be home! I can’t do much and I feel bad because the house is a wreck and mom is trying to clean it and keep up with me. It is stressful on her but I am very thankful. Dad is working, making money and he checks on me too!

Now I am dealing with my school and trying to get exams situated so I can graduate in May but I may have to finish in the summer. I can’t go very far with out my back hurting so I can’t exactly go to LSU and take my finals. Pray that God will take care of that because I only have two classes out of six left that say that I have to take the final in order to pass the class.

I get my staples out either today or tomorrow, just depends when the physician can see me. I am not sure if they will give me local anastesia or not but I hope so. Mom says oh you can do it there aint nothing to it. Um mom have you ever accidently stapled your finger, it kinda hurts and I have 27 of them. They aren’t like stitches, I’ve taken them out of football players before, there isn’t anything to it but staples are different.

Dad talked to Mr. David, Mrs. Sandra’s husband, this morning and he said that she gets a little better each day but she still has a long way to go. I called him today but didn’t get any answer, when I talk to him I will let people know. There is also a little boy by the name of Olsyn Davis that I want everyone to pray for. He is 2 months old and the doctors have done everything they can for him but say that he will not live. My aunt DC and uncle Will met them in a waffle house in Washington or Maryland and said that he looked really bad. He can’t keep anyhting down and his parents are a new young couple that is devistated. Please pray for these people.