Beth.. was just looking back on Gabe’s page (sincecif has been a long time also!), and saw you had an update!! I have been wondering how you all were! I was sad to see you are no longer on WISH or Facebook! JD is so handsome!! And is looking so strong.
I know it now has been a year since this last update! But know that I think of JD often and I do tell Gabe’s therapist that things can still happen and I am waiting to hear Gabe’s first real word since his injury!
Hi Beth. I met you many years ago when our sons were doing hyperbaric chambers together. I would be happy if you would like to email me, but there is a fabulous place in Georgetown my friend modeled after a place in Houston to help adults with special needs who want to make a difference. It’s called BIG Brookwood and my friends name is Erin. I hope this may be a great resource. Blessings to you and your beautiful family. I know it’s been such a long journey already.
Oh gosh, I've been wondering about you and your family, wondering how JD is doing. It's been so long since the last entry. Thank you for checking in and giving us this update. I'm so sad to learn of your splintered family, and to hear that you are feeling lonely, and it breaks my heart to read your words "to be on yet another path I did not have a choice in" -- I'm sorry. I know that feeling (my daughter was brain injured at age 4, and of course I didn't have a say in that, and then I lost a son many years after that, and I had no say in that, either -- why God gives us mamas these trials, I will never understand... until I get to Heaven one day and can ask Him!) -- My brain injured daughter is 25 now. I remember feeling a bit panicked once she got out of high school -- What now?? In many ways it's so much harder to have a brain injured adult child, than a young one. She was injured at age 4, and I remember back to that time, the weeks and months afterwards, as awful as it was....at least back then I had hope. I don't mean to sound bleak and negative. But I remember feeling things like " next month she'll get better" or "in 6 months from now she will have improved so much" or "this time next year things won't be like this...." -- When the injury is fresh, even 2 years into it, there's hope that they will one day be normal again, back to the way they were, or at least recover most of what they lost. And I don't remember the exact day it happened, but one day that hope for the old her returning went away. And that day, and from then on, things were actually more sad for me than when she was first hurt. A different kind of sad. It's so hard to explain, but as the years went on I guess reality set in more and more. And sometimes even false hope is so much better than the reality. Anyway, my heart goes out to you. So much. I have such admiration for you. You are a super mom in my eyes. A hero mom. The best of the best. Please know that even though we've never met, I do often think about you and JD. At my church when it's time to pray for those who need healing...his name, his face, pops into my head and I ask for his continued healing. My 4th child just turned 19 on October 11th. Every year when his birthday rolls around, I think of JD and what this day means to your family. May God bless you and continue to give you strength, and may he bring new joys into your life, always. -- many hugs, from CA ~ mommy10times@aol.com if you ever want to reach out ~ www.theyallcallmemom.com
So glad to hear this update and will keep you in my daily prayers. It is so hard sometimes to see the blessings among the burdens in our lives but one thing is certain .. we are never alone, never abandoned.. this we are promised.. Thanks be to God!
Thank you so much for your update! It was wonderful seeing how the Lord has used so many people to help JD during these years. God has good plans for all of you. I will continue to pray for you as you continue this journey with your family.
Praying the Lord gives you His strength and blesses you richly!
Not all super hero’s wear capes!! You are a super hero Mom, Beth. Im sorry you are going at it alone and the struggles are hard. But there is a special place God holds for you in heaven. But while you are hear on earth to do His work, we are all blessed by it.
Beth,
Thank you for keeping us up to date on your extraordinary family. J.D.’s accident and injury impacted so many of us. We prayed for your family 10 years ago and we continue to lift you all up in prayer. Thank you for a glimpse inside of J.D.’s world. Please keep us posted as J.D.’s next chapter starts developing. He still has a quiet little cheering section in this great neighborhood.
Beth - thank you so very much for the update. I feel so blessed to get to follow Macy and CG on Instagram and see their progress. Macy is your mini me. My goodness that girl has the world by the tail and I can't wait to see what she get's to do next! I honestly can not believe how all of your sweet babies have grown up so quickly. It has been a joy to get to watch from the cheering section so to speak. I am so beyond proud of your entire clan and the very long legacy of love and family you all have surrounding you. I have to echo what everyone has said below. You just amaze me as always. JD is absolutely going to succeed very well on his path forward with you supporting him as you do with all your babies. You still have so many constant prayers going up and the work you all have done in JD's honor is giving him much needed favor in the kingdom that will do great miraculous things for him and many more!! Such a praise report. Much love and blessings to you all. Wendy Reynolds (Uncle Marc's Forever Friend)
Beth, what a beautifully written update. You should feel very proud of all your amazing kids -- it was so great to hear the updates for all four of them. I miss you all very much! Last, thank you for being such a role model for us all on faith, family, motherhood, and selflessness.
I know it now has been a year since this last update! But know that I think of JD often and I do tell Gabe’s therapist that things can still happen and I am waiting to hear Gabe’s first real word since his injury!