Brayden’s Story

Site created on January 1, 2022



On Monday December 27 late in the evening Brayden was a victim of a violent crime causing damage to his organs with internal bleeding. They did exploratory surgery in which they had to remove part of his large intestines and stint his right ureter. He has an NG tube in because his stomach was distended after the first 48 hours with the large intestinal swelling. He has a large incision down his stomach with unbearable pain. We do not know have a discharge date and do not know how long recovery is and when he will be able to play football again. 
We are asking for prayers for his pain, his lack of sleep, our lack of sleep, strength, knowledge and wisdom from doctors and nurses to treat him, and of course ultimate healing! 
Thank you in advance from our family and Brayden for your prayers, love, support, hot meals, donations, etc. 
Brian and I will be out of work for an unknown amount of time to care for him 24/7. Anything helps and is appreciated. 🙏🏼❤️

Newest Update

Journal entry by Heather Blalock

After 36 hours of vomiting anything he would drink and having blood in his urine, we came to ER and he is being admitted. CT scan shows he has a bowel obstruction. Doing only fluids tonight. And will do a contrast scan tomorrow to see where it stops in the bowel. 
Also monitoring air in his bladder and whatever is going on with his kidneys. His white blood cell count is up too. Which could just be dehydration. 
They don’t want to do surgery right away until they get more insight on the obstruction because of how soon he just had surgery. We will know more probably tomorrow evening. 
Please keep praying for our son. My heart is just so heavy and aching so bad to watch him go through this. I’m trying so hard to be strong for him but I’m so weak right now. I have to keep stepping out just to cry. Thank you for all your support.
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