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November 20, 2005
Our Hearts are Broken, November 20, 7:30 AM
IN ALL THINKGS GIVE THANKS TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IN CHRIST JESUS NAME.
as i have broken the news to so many close family and friends, first about hadrienne's critical accident and now about her passing the same words come out from those i tell: "there is nothing else to say."
we loved our daughter so much. we miss her so much and the pain is so great that it is unbearable. there is so much that needs to be done now, and we don't even know where to begin.
we received the news last night after an arteriogram was performed to see if any blood flow was going to hadriennes brain. i already knew, though, there wasn't. we have learned far too much already about brain injury. she is still on life support. gloria spent the night at the hospital last night with her and i stayed in a hotel with asher. he is devastated. he doesn't understand why god has spared him. he cried out to god when i told him last night for why it could't have been him instead and that he would have traded his life for hers, as we all would. but jesus has already done that.
we have cried more than we think is humanly possible and i know we are done. as i left the hospital last night and had to pass by all of hadrienne and asher friends they are all so devastated and hurting beyond measure. please pray for mark and josh who were with hadrienne when the accident occurred. mark is still in the hospital with a broken collar bone and some possible othe injuries. i went to see him yesterday to assure him it was not his fault (he was driving), and that we don't blame him and that we love him. josh was release from the emergency room the same night and sent home with a concussion.
the person driving the care that hit hadrienne is in the same icu unit that hadrienne is in. i would ask you to pray for him and those that were riding in the car with him. i know very few details about the accident, except that i have been told that he appeared to be speeding and lost control of his car when he hit hadrienne, mark and josh.
a conversation i had with hadrienne some months ago after tommy haymes passed away keeps going through my mind. she expressed some half joking and half serious concern to me about wondering whether she might me next. i assured her that she wouldn't. oh dear lord have mercy on us.
i really wanted to post a picture of hadrienne with this but i don't have my computer, it is in atlanta. in fact i don't have any pictures of hadrienne with us at all. we just never dreamed.
i don't know anything yet about funeral arrangements, but as soon as i do i will post them.
thank you all so much for loving us through your prayers.
blessings and thanksgiving,
andy mendonsa
| By Andy Mendonsa | 7:59 AM
