Hannah...

For some of you, this may be a repeat, but I want to share this on the blog, the more people praying the better! I totally believe in the power of prayer and need you to join me on this one. You guys know how crazy I am about all of my students. I spend lots of time with them and we talk lots more than just horses! Some of these girls I see multiple times a week and most of them I text with on a regular basis, fb, etc. This isn't just a business! I'm crazy about most of these girls (yes, I said most! ha!). One in particular has been spending more time at the barn lately, looking at buying one of my favorite horses, CC. Hannah has been my student for over 3 1/2 years and here lately I have been praying and crying for her mother Gina, whose cancer that started out in her breasts and spread, recently spreading to her liver and spine. I just cry out to God, "Just say the word and she's healed. Your words are power, you don't even have to say it, just think it Lord, and it'll be done." We need a miracle here.

Well, Wednesday afternoon Hannah was involved in a bad wreck. Her father passed away. She was life flighted to Vanderbilt where she is still in critical care, but praise God, she is improving. She has yet to wake up, but thankfully, now it is induced. They have backed her sedation off a bit and she will raise her arm up every now and then. And just this morning she was taken off the ventilator and breathing on her own! Her lungs were bruised badly, but have improved so much, another praise! She had her left leg operated on yesterday and her right wrist. They wanted to also go ahead and operate on her right leg at the same time but her platelets were low so the Dr. was concerned about bleeding so her right knee will be operated on another day. She had to have a blood transfusion so I'm sure this had to do with a lot of it. She has a long road ahead of her physically for recovery, but will make a full recovery. I can't wait to see her run down to the barn again and her goofy self hug her lesson partner, Kamy, like they haven't seen each other in years. She does this every week and every week I tell them how they are such weirdo's! I can't wait to see her get on Daisy and jump the cross country course, or master her flying lead change. Riding horses is one of her favorite things and I'm glad it's only temporary that she won't be able to do it.

I already thought Hannah had too much on her for any 14 year old girl. Isn't being a teenager hard enough sometimes, who should see their mom go through a ferocious battle with cancer? And now one second she's riding down the road with Brian, and the next time she wakes, days will have passed and her dad is gone. Please pray for her mom as she prepares to tell Hannah this nightmare. Please pray for Gina as well as she continues her radiation. They moved it to Vandy and gave her a room to rest in so that she doesn't have to ever be far from Hannah. Please also pray specifically that she can get into this clinical trial coming up. Pray strength for her as her body was already weak. In that same thought, she is also very strong, please just pray. If there is any scripture that you would like to leave as a comment, I will include it in a book I am making for Hannah so that she will have pics of the horses and encouraging notes from us. Thanks in advance for your prayers.