This necklace is dedicated to Jessica's struggle with Lyme Disease and RSD. It was made to honor her commitment to Lyme disease awareness by Lymelinks.
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Special thanks go out to two special visitors that came to see Jessica yesterday. Our dear Dr. Rainbow had told them about Jessica and they came to offer special prayers for her and for her healing! We were honored to have Sister Damiana and Sister Juana Teresa from "The Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ" pray with us! I can honestly say that I felt the spirit of the Lord present in the room yesterday! Thank you again for all your love and prayers and may God watch over your journey to the states in the coming weeks - have a blessed Christmas!
Blessings To All,
"The Christmas Package"
I remember the first few weeks we were here at the Hospital San Jose Tec. It was after Jessica had just come out of the coma and didn't even know who she was or who I was - she had lost her memory! Those three weeks without her memory were tough! I was so distraught; it was a very difficult time! I remember Dr. Cantu (aka Dr. "Green Shirt") trying to reassure me, as only he can, that her memory would come back eventually, but that Jessica's "road to recovery" would be long and hard. That due to the complexity and severity of her illness, and her being one of the most debilitated cases they had seen, that the hope would be, barring any setbacks, to "unwrap" and open a beautiful "Christmas package" with Jessica. That it could take that long but that it could happen!
Let me tell you a story about Jessica and her 1st Christmas and her "unwrapping" her presents:
I remember the first Christmas we celebrated with Jessica - December 1988. As she was our firstborn, it was our first as parents and Jessica was only 11 months old. We had carefully wrapped and put all of her presents under the tree in our very first home on Huntington Road. Since it was her first Christmas and we were so excited, we may have gotten a little carried away - she had 10 presents under the tree! We had waited over 5 years for God to bless us with Jessica and I think we were more excited than her that Christmas morning!
I will never forget her face that morning when she saw the tree and all the boxes underneath it. She didn't know what to do first - so - she ran - or should I say "waddled" all the way over to the tree. We sat her down in front of the tree, got the camera ready, and proceeded to see what she would do next! I remember thinking to myself as she carefully "unwrapped" her presents - Which one would be her favorite??? Would she like the little baby doll that I had chosen for her, or would she like the Little Tykes train set her Dad had picked out for her?
To our shock and amazement, it was neither! You see, she was more interested in the boxes and the "unwrapping" of them all! She didn't care what was inside the packages, only how to get them unwrapped. I remember saying to my husband David that we could have saved a lot of money and just wrapped empty boxes and she would have been just as happy!
So, while we are here in Monterrey, that is what she and the doctors are doing as well! Just as Dr. Cantu had said in the very beginning, the hope is to carefully "unwrap" the present, piece by piece, and eventually open the new "package", one that will hopefully be "empty" or free of pain and sickness - a new Jessica, a new "unwrapped" Christmas package"!!!
Please pray for Jessica today and the struggles that continue from yesterday. Pray for the eyes, the pain, intestinal problems, headaches, and the continued improvements. Pray for these "pieces" of her illnesses to continue to be "unwrapped" or torn away and for a beautiful new Christmas package to unfold!!!
In God's love,
and in anticipation,
Sarah Gina (Jessica's Mom)
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17
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Good morning ladies of Room 845, our amazing friends of our extended family!!
ReplyDeleteIt is wonderful that your entire family will be together for Christmas! As we all eat our meals together your family and the healing and miracles unfolding will be foremost in our prayers and thanks!
Thank you Dear Lord for all the wonderful support and love that Dr. Rainbow has brought to Jessica and Sarah Gina. She has laid these marvelous servants at your feet like a wonderful offering, a blessing, a Christmas Gift of hope and healing. Little Messangers to God's listening ears that Dr. R just keep coming up with! She is full of such wonderful suprises, like little packages!
You words soothe the heart Sarah Gina and calm the storm. You are a blessing to all you know and it's wonderful how everyday you come up with a scripture that brings your story directly from the Bible!
May today be the best progress yet... and most relief to Sweet Jessica since arriving in Mexico.
Update! Holiday Bazaar Team Jessica Style..lead by Lisa Reber, was a terrific event. The necklace was such a HIT...many orders will be placed from the gals yesterday. They love it!
The goodies each vendor offered was perfect for holiday giving. THEN the a couple Pin Up Boys of the North Naples Fire Dept 2010 Calendar showed up and WOW...now there's a gift I wouldn't mind hanging on my wall! (Don't tell Joe) Thanks guys and gals!! Such wonderful people and even Jerry Sanford, retired Fire Fighter made a visit. He has plans!!! Stay tuned! Thank you everyone who came and enjoyed this day of love. Details will follow too.
Blessings on you!
Nanc & Joe
PS: Joe reads this everyday too, so forget the don't tell Joe part. I'm busted!!!
Your story of the first Christmas for Jessica reminded me of my first Christmas with my new son. He was only 5 months old and we had purchased only a few things. Like Jessica, he was only interested in unwrapping the gifts! We had so much fun watching this that when he was all done, I went in the back and re-wrapped them all again and gave them back. To him, it was like a new surprise! He joyfully attacked the gifts. Who knows if he was expecting something else? :)
ReplyDeleteIt seemed to me that the joy was in the unwrapping rather than the gift itself.
For all of us who have been through this coma trial, we have come into it with hopes, dreams, desires, and of course conviction! Those are the gifts. They are all wrapped in different packages - our bodies- and God has presented them to us for the unwrapping.
For many years, as my children have grown older and more able to enjoy the process, they would delight in finding many boxes and reams of wrapping paper. They would wrap the treasure so elaborately that a small gift inside looks enormous under the tree! It could take a very long time to unwrap each layer and empty each new box as the receiver worked their way down to the ultimate gift. The giver receiving just as much joy in the watching and the anticipation as the receiver. I see this for Jessica. There are just a lot of layers and a lot of boxes to be unwrapped in between. Inside each new layer comes a bonus gift of wisdom, endurance, patience, promises, and love. Without those bonus gifts the ultimate gift could not be received. For those on the sidelines watching this unfold, there is a joy in the expectation and surprises along the way.
It is my fervent prayer that you get to the smaller box really really soon. In the meantime, you have the opportunity to experience all the extra bonus gifts that come along for the ride- like good doctors, supportive friends and family, prayer warriors, etc. If it weren't for the struggle, you would not be blessed with such gifts. I feel that way for myself and hope that today you feel it intensely as well.
Hope the procedure went well yesterday and that today is an easier day.
Love,
Fern
What a wonderful analogy!
ReplyDeleteI bet when your husband and daughters arrive, they will look at Jessica and will be able to see a partially unwrapped gift!
May you continue to feel His presence and His love everyday!
With love & prayers,
The Turners
What a wonderful analogy!
ReplyDeleteI bet when your husband and daughters arrive, they will look at Jessica and will be able to see a partially unwrapped gift!
May you continue to feel His presence and His love everyday!
With love & prayers,
The Turners
hey mom,
ReplyDeletei loved the post today, i remember watching old home videos with michelle over the summer and in one of them you actually little jessica waddling over to the christmas and being so excited about the wrapping...see, unlike me and michelle, jessica was always the smarter and more intrigued baby..she definitley thought things more for sure (cause i know that when i was a baby i couldnt even undo the wrapping!)haha
i want you to tell jessica that the best christmas present that i ever got was her being my big sister (even though wed always fight about who got the better presents haha)
i love you both very much!!
p.s.--mom, youre writing has become amazing, you may actually be better than daddy now..but we wont tell him that! haha
Jessica and Gina, I'm so happy that David and the girls are going to be with you for Christmas. It will be wonderful and the best package to be opened is Jessica's continued recovery. No matter how slow, it is still a miracle and no matter how long the road, you will travel it with hope and faith in God. Enjoy your family "reunion" I'm sure it will be special. Love, Bonnie
ReplyDeleteGreetings to you Gina and Jessica-
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you will be able to enjoy Christmas with your family.
Gina-Your perseverance and faith are blessings to Jessica and the rest of your family and a true demonstration that love is an action- not a feeling.
I join with many others in praying that the ketamine treatment will bring relief to Jessica and reverse the course you all have been on for the past few years.
Blessings to you all-
Laura Bauer
I am praying for a Christmas Miracle :) Your writing is truly inspirational! God Bless You, Crystal
ReplyDeleteI would like to exchange links with your site hopeforjessica.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteIs this possible?