May 30, 2009

Yesterday, we had the funeral for Mrs. Alice. We counted the guest book and about 500 people came for the visitation and funeral. Mrs. Alice would have been so proud. We know she was looking down from heaven and smiling. Eric preached her funeral by her request. He did a wonderful job. The funeral was beautiful. There were so many flowers and wonderful memories shared. We all have comfort because we know where she is at. God is still good. The bible talks about how precious it is when a saint comes home. One went home on Tuesday. The family is thankful for all of the support and prayers. Please continue to pray for them.

May 27, 2009

I just wanted to let everyone know what the funeral arrangements are for Mrs. Alice.

The visitation will be held at Bumpers Funeral Home in Butler, AL from 6-9 p.m on Thurs., May 28th.

The funeral will be held in the chapel at Bumpers Funeral Home at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 29th.

The burial will be held at Bogueloosa Cemetery in Land, AL after the funeral.

The address to the funeral home is:

Bumpers Funeral Home
302 Vanity Fair Avenue
Butler, AL 36904

Phone: 205-459-2515

Again, the family is thankful for all of the prayers.

Please continue to follow the blog for updates on the family and Beth's progress. She has two doctor's appointments this week. Please pray that she will get good reports.

May 26, 2009

Mrs. Alice Turner Wright left this world to be with the Lord today. She is with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ without pain and suffering. We are happy because we know where she is. Sometimes in life, you just have to accept the fact that God knows best. In this case, He chose to take Mrs. Alice home to be with Him. She was such a special lady that God decided that He just had to have her to brighten Heaven up a little more. The family are thankful for all the prayers. We love and appreciate all of you!

May 25, 2009

Hey everyone! Today has been about the same. Mrs. Alice's potassium was a little low this morning. Also, they suctioned her lungs out really good tonight. They had to go up on the ventilator, but said that hopefully tomorrow they will go back down. Please pray that this will happen! She has come to far to go back now!!

Beth is doing good. She is at home surrounded by family and loved ones. They grilled today and made homemade ice cream. They had a lot of fun! Please continue to pray for her recovery as well:)

As always, God is still good!

May 24, 2009

This is the day that the Lord has made! I will rejoice and be glad it is! Today has been another good day. Mrs. Alice has remained the same today. We are still thankful that no steps are being taken backwards. YAY!!

Beth is still doing good. She is at home and has had a lot of visitors. We are so thankful that she has been able to be at home such a short time after the wreck. We are hoping and praying that Mrs. Alice will not be far behind. They both are doing very well under the circumstances. Please continue to pray for their recovery!

May 23, 2009

Today was another good day! Mrs. Alice has stayed about the same today, but she is breathing more breaths on her own! As I said last week, hospitals are slow on the weekends. They are not going to do anything major to her this weekend. We are so thankful that she is continuing to take steps forward!!

Beth got to go home today. It was a long trip for her, but they made it! She is now back in Choctaw County. We are so thankful that they made it safe. Please continue to pray for both of them. They still have a road of recovery ahead, but by the grace of God, they will make it just fine!

We love all of you!

May 22, 2009

Sorry for the late post! Today has been so eventful! They took Mrs. Alice off of her bi-level ventilator. They put her on a Synchronized vent. When Mrs. Alice breathes on her own, this vent will sync with her and let her breathe. The bi-level vent would breathe for her regardless. This vent will help her start breathing on her own again. We are so happy she is on a new vent. It is the same ventilator that everyone else is on in SICU! Her blood pressure and heart rate are great! She is doing great with the feeding tube. Her body is handling all of the changes very well. Her nurse told me that her chances of survival are so much greater now than they were. She has come such a long way in such a short time. It is all thanks to God and all of the prayers everyone has prayed.

Beth is going home tomorrow at about 10 am. She had a great last day at rehab and physical therapy worked her hard. Please pray that she has a safe ride home. A long trip like that will be a hard one for Beth, but with God's help, she will make it fine! Thanks again for all of the prayers. We are watching miracles take place!

May 21, 2009 - part 2

I just wanted to let everyone know that Mrs. Alice came through her surgery great!! They decided to lower her Peeps to 28! Her oxygen is still 60% and her blood pressure is great! Her heart rate is too! Also, they put a feeding tube in so she can get some nutrition. We are so thankful for this! God has really worked wonders today! It says in His Word that he will take care of His people. He is showing us that with Mrs. Alice. She has come such a long way in a couple of days. God is so Good!

Love to all!

May 21, 2009

The Working Girl

This is Beth in her natural state. She loves her job. She is doing well today. She is still excited about coming home. Please continue to pray for her. A 2.5 hour drive will not be the easiest in the world for her, but we are praying that the transition will be smooth.

Mrs. Alice is having a great day. She has stayed off of her blood pressure medication and her heart rate is doing well. Also, they dropped her Peeps down to 30 and her oxygen to 60%. This means she is breathing 40% on her own! That is great! Dr. Vermillion is going to close her abdomen up tonight at 5:00. Please pray that the surgery will go well! The nurse even said today that she has come a long way! We are so thankful to God for the progress made! He has definitely been with her and Beth. Thanks for all of the prayers once again. God is really moving on the situations!

May 20, 2009

Our Matching Outfits!

This picture was taken probably two years ago. I love it! Mrs. Alice has always made me feel like I was part of the family, even from the very beginning. She treats me as one of her own. I love her very much! She had a good day today. The nurse said she was better. Dr. Vermillion turned her ventilator down to 32 Peeps from 35! YAY!! Also, she has stayed off of her blood pressure medication all day with ease! However, her heart doctor is concerned that she is at risk for a stroke or blood clots. This is because she has an irregular heartbeat and her heart was bruised in the wreck. We are just believing that it will not happen. God is going to move in this situation!

Beth is still hanging in there! She is still at Healthsouth doing physical therapy. She is getting stronger and excited about coming home. She says that she misses work and can't wait to start again. Her boss said he would be glad to bring it by her house so she would not get bored! Who would have thought that only two weeks after that horrible wreck, Beth would be doing as well as she is! God has worked a miracle! I saw the car first-hand. Beth's side was crushed on the inside. Eric had to force her left shoe out from under crushed plastic. Her left leg is not even hurt! God works in ways that we cannot understand. He is the Great Physician. We are thankful to Him for everything that He has done and will continue to do. Please keep up the prayers. It is working!

We love you all!

May 19, 2009

I love this picture!

I have heard that with every step forward you take two steps back in the medical world. Mrs. Alice had a rough night on the 17th. They could not find a blood pressure all night. A night nurse told us that he thought she was going to die, but she didn't! They put an arterial line in her last night. This helps them receive a better blood pressure reading. It took them an hour to do it. When they were finished, her heart was beating 170 times per minute which is almost double what it should be. The good thing was her blood pressure was better than they thought. Today, her blood pressure remained good all day. Actually, they took her off of all of her blood pressure medication which is a big step. She is handling it very well right now. Her heart rate came down to 82 which is a good rate. Her vent settings remain the same. We are thankful that they have not had to turn it up. Please continue to pray for Mrs. Alice. She is here for a reason and we are so glad to have her!

Beth is still doing good. They are going to send her home on Saturday! We are so thankful that Beth is making great progress. She still can't bend or put pressure on her leg, but in time she will! Please continue to pray with us for her. It is going to be hard for her to leave Montgomery with her mom still being here. We are believing that Mrs. Alice will not be too far behind Beth.

Thanks for all of the love, prayers, and support. We could not make it without all of you!

P.S. I did not know it at the time, but the bible verse I posted yesterday is Mrs. Alice's favorite bible verse. God works in mysterious ways.

May 18, 2009

Mrs Alice had a rough night last night. Her nurse could not get a blood pressure reading for her. They finally got one this morning after upping her blood pressure medicine significantly. He said that it is typical for a trauma patient to have ups and downs.He also said that Mrs. Alice is very sick. Her lungs are pretty bad. They are constantly pumping infection out. Tonight they are planning to close up her abdomen. It has been open since the first surgery she had on May 6th. Hopefully this will be a success:) We are not giving up!

Beth got her staples and stitches taken out today. YAY!! She has been a little sick, but she is doing great! The doctor told her that it would be a long time before her wounds would heal, and that he is still worried that infection will set in. BUT so far so good! She does not have a drop of infection in her leg. Praise the Lord!

Please continue to pray for both of them. We are believing God is going to work! This is a promise that we get from the bible in Romans 8:28:

"And we know that all things work together

for good to them that love God, to them who

are the called according to his purpose."

God Bless!

May 17, 2009

The weekends around the hospital are slow. They pretty much kept Mrs. Alice the same yesterday, Saturday the 16th. They did move her in her bed, which is something they have not been able to do! Today, they decided to turn the ventilator down, combine some of her iv's, and draw some of her fluid off. This is a good thing. They have not been able to draw fluid off because of her blood pressure. Hopefully, these procedures will be successful.

I was going to explain a little about her vent settings. She is on 70% oxygen right now. This means the vent is breathing 70% and she is breathing 30%. She was on 100% earlier in the week, so the vent has went down 30%! Also, her Peeps are on 35. Peeps are the pressure it takes to make the lungs contract. So, we want a low number for Peeps! Earlier this week they were on 42, so progress has been made here also!

Beth is doing great still! She wanted me to tell everyone what her doctor said. When he evaluated her at Healthsouth, he told her that it would be a long time before she could walk on a walker. She listened, and then told him that she had already been doing that for a few days!

God has been moving at the hospital and rehab this weekend! The family appreciates all the prayers and help that they have been given. Just keep praying. We are believing that this coming week will be the best one yet!

May 15, 2009

God is good! Mrs. Alice had surgery today. They put pins and external fixations on her ankles. (External fixations are rods that are on the outside of the skin holding the bones in place.) She came through the surgery great. Her ankles and feet look really good. This surgery is a temporary fix until they can get her stable enough to bring her to the OR to operate. Dr. Hester has been doing the surgeries bed-side because it is a risk to move her. They are waiting on her lungs and heart to get better. The important thing is that progress is being made!

Beth is doing great! She loves Rehab and her physical therapists. She is walking around on a walker. She is getting better and stronger everyday!

God is certainly doing great things!

May 14, 2009

Hey everyone! This is Jenna (Eric's fiance). I created this blog to keep you updated on Alice and Beth Wright's progress. Mrs. Alice and Beth had a head-on collision with a drunk driver on May 5, 2009 at appx. 9:30 pm in Monroeville, AL. As you can see by the pictures, the car was demolished. The driver of the other vehicle did not make it. Beth and Mrs. Alice were taken to a hospital in Monroville and later to Baptist South in Montgomery, AL. Beth had a broken leg, fractured pelvis, and fractured L2 vertebrate. Mrs. Alice had two broken legs, two crushed ankes, a crushed wrist, a hip fracture, bruised heart and lungs, tears in her small intestine, a hernia type hole from her stomach to her skin and her hip was out of socket.

Both of them had surgery Wednesday, the 6th. They put a bar and pins in Beth's right leg. She did very well through the surgery.

Mrs. Alice had surgery to set her limbs and fix the holes in her intestine that was causing internal bleeding. She was very unstable, so the doctors had to "tag-team" the surgery. (They did it at the same time.) They took a foot of her intestine out and re-routed them. They set her bones with some pins and put her in traction. (Traction is a system of weights and ropes elevating her legs.) This is a temporary fix until they can get her stable enought to operate. She came through the surgery well, also.

Since then, Beth has made improvements every day. She can get up on a walker by herself. They moved her to Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital on May 12th in Montgomery.Beth loves rehab. She is working out and getting stronger. The number to her room is 334-284-7710. Feel free to call her. She has her cell phone with her too.

Mrs. Alice is in SICU in Baptist South. They have her on a ventilator and she is in a medically-induced coma. They are trying to get her stable enough to do much needed surgery. They did put a screen in her to help with blood clots. Her blood pressure varies at times, but her heart rate remains good. The main concern is her lungs. She has a lot of infection and fluid building up in them. They are pumping it out. She has had to have two emergency pumps on Sunday, May 10th, and Tuesday, May 12th. She is holding up well. The doctors say that she is in very critical condition, but that she is doing good for her condition. She is a fighter! Dr. Hester (her orthopedist) and Dr. Vermillion (Trauma doctor) are thinking about doing surgery on today or Friday. They are going to try to set her bones and fix the hole that is inside of her.

Also, they found out on Friday, May 8, that Mrs. Alice has breast cancer. The doctor said that he needs to fix this immediatley, but she is not stable enough yet for the procedure.

Beth and Mrs. Alice have great doctors, but the best part is that they know who the real Doctor is. When they had the wreck, they were in the car praising God waiting for help to arrive. God is definitley with them. According to the state trooper on the scene, they shouldn't have made it at all, but God had different plans. The most important thing now is that everyone pray for their recovery process. This is a God-fearing family who firmly believes in prayer.

Eric and Mr. Larry have been staying in Montgomery. They visit both patients on a daily basis. The Wright men are doing well. They are holding on and praying a lot.

I know this post is huge, but I had a lot to catch everyone up on! I will post daily on how everyone is doing. Also, you can comment on this post. Feel free to write anything you want to say whether it be a fond memory or prayer. Mrs. Alice and Beth will be able to read these.

God Bless!!