OT Prayer Request Update

[Guest guest]

I just got home from the hospital. (also known as my dear husband) is

still there with " J " . They haven't even gotten to deal with his psychiatric

issues yet because there appears to be a problem with his heart. They are

admitting him for medical reasons tonight to monitor his heart and to run

tests. I noticed that they gave him four baby aspirin before I left which

they usually give when they suspect heart attacks. He's terrified and the

look of fear on his face is breaking our hearts.

For those who don't know J's story, here is the very short version:

In 1990 we were foster parents for Pike County CYS. We were asked to take a

cocaine baby who was only three days old. It was " J " . We loved him from

the minute we laid eyes on him and still love him today as if he was one of

our own. He lived with us from the third day of us life when we brought him

home from the NICU until he was 15 months old. At that time, Pike Co. CYS

and the judge in all his infinite wisdom (dripping with sarcasm here) placed

him " cold turkey " in the arms of his drug addicted mother whom he had only

met three times in 15 months and in a home that he did not know and that was

VERY different from ours. That was the first in a series of incredible

traumas he has suffered in his life. He has drifted in and out of our lives

numerous times over the past 18 years usually as the result of ongoing abuse

neglect, and trauma. He has suffered every possible kind of abuse ....

emotional ..... physical .... sexual ...... and spiritual. Through it all,

I still see that sweetness in his eyes and I know it is in his heart.

Through all these years, we have been helpless to do what we wanted to do to

protect him. The government agencies that are supposed to protect kids like

Jordan have failed him over and over and over again while his abuser played

them like violins.

In addition to 17 years of repeated abuse and trauma, last spring (2007) his

beloved grandmother was brutally murdered by her own husband. The pain of

what happened drove him deep in to the drug culture and he ended up in rehab

About a month ago, after not seeing him for 8 years, he basically showed up

on our doorstep with nothing but the clothes on his back and a world of hurt

For a month, I have been calling Carbon/Monroe/Pike telling them that he

is severely emotionally fragile and that he needs help NOW. My last call to

them was this morning. I did get a case manager to agree to come meet with

him tomorrow. Two hours later, he came to me and admittted to swallowing a

whole bottle of Celexa. You know the rest.

I can't thank you all enough for your prayers. I love this kid so very much

I am so angry at the systems that have failed him over and over and over

and over again. PLEASE pray that this will be a turning point for him and

that God will bring the right help his way and give us the wisdom and the

strength to help him turn his life around and start down a new path.

I can't thank you all enough for being there when I cried out this afternoon

Knowing that folks were praying for him gave me tremendous peace tonight.

I will keep you all posted and I thank you for your prayers.

Gladys