Dear Friends and Family,
As some of you already know, Connor sustained a life-threatening head injury in an accident at scout camp on Friday and was life-flighted to Hopkins hospital in Baltimore where he is recovering from an emergency surgery to evacuate blood in his brain. We are so lucky to have such an excellent medical facility in our back yard. We want to let all of you know that he is doing very well and was able to move out of the Pediatric ICU today and into a "normal room", having demonstrated that all of his neurologic systems are intact and that he has miraculously sustained no other physical injuries. He is now able to talk to us (mostly about how bummed he is about all the baseball, swimming and soccer he is missing) and was able to sit, stand and walk a few steps with assistance late this afternoon. He is still on a lot of medications and not eating yet, so that will be tomorrow's goal. We are hopeful that a full recovery is within reach before the start of school. We can not thank you enough for your thoughts and especially your prayers at this difficult time for our family. You have blessed us more than we can say. Connor has a huge incision covered in staples along the right side of his skull, and we tell him that there is a staple for every person who has expressed love, concern and prayer for him this weekend as he struggled. We thank all of Connor's sports friends and coaches; the neurosurgeons said that Connor is obviously an athletic kid in great condition and that throughout surgery and immediately after, his heart and respiration rates were astoundingly good and that this is helping his body to heal as quickly as possible. Connor can still use your continued prayer and thoughts and when he comes home, a few assurances that the huge scar on his head is actually kind of cool, right???
In gratitude and amazement at all the good Lord has done for us through all of you,
Peter and Amber