He’s there with them now.
My cousin’s wife was visiting with their youngest daughter (who’s I think 12) and niece in Australia and were in a terrible accident over the weekend. They’ve all survived, so far. But their daughter was going in for her second surgery today after massive brain swelling.
His wife posted that she had been pouring her soul out in prayer while overwhelmed with the memories, the 40 minute wait for the ambulance, her own broken bones as she was trying to help her daughter not bleed to death, her niece calling out for her mom, who was not there.
And the flies! So many flies, and holding that gauze she just could not keep them away from her daughter’s face to at least offer her that comfort.
And in the moment she thought that in her prayer she suddenly knew: it was the flies. Rose had needed to stay conscious, and the annoyance of those pesky bugs, that insect insult on top of all the fear and pain–
–had been what had kept her awake.
And she woke up again after the first surgery, which was on her brain.
Update: and she is responsive now after her second. Go Rose!