Elias Nutting

From Jon:

I’m staying the night (hopefully the last night) here in room #S-326 with Elias. This is a shared room with a cute little boy who looked like he was burned pretty bad. It was his bed time so when I got here so I haven’t had a chance to find out his story yet. Last night though, I met another cute little 18 month old boy who was burned really bad from falling into his mom’s extremely hot bathtub when she was finishing up dinner. Poor mom has been here at the hospital for almost 2 weeks now while her busy 18 year old daughter is trying to take care of her other young kids. I wish she had a great community like ours to help her out. The only thing I could think of doing for her was to give her some chamomile tea to try to help her relax.

Here are the latest X-rays from today. As you can see Elias almost has a bionic neck now. He was in pretty bad pain about an hour ago so he was given a shot of morphine to help. We’ll find out tomorrow if he’ll be ready to go home or not…I’ll give an update then. Until then, send a little bedtime prayer out to all the little boys and girls who are suffering around the world, and for strength to help the parents/family/friends to be their support.

Good night.

Jon
X-rays before: