Sunday, September 18, 2005

Matt Silver

For those of you who know the Silver's, their son Matt was in a terrible car accident early Saturday morning. Jill has gone to West Palm Beach Hospital to be with him. He has a closed head injury and a smashed knee. It is too early to tell how serious the closed head injury is. He is currently heavily sedated. This blog goes out as a prayer request to have Matt, David, Jill and Luke in your prayers. We will update this blog as we learn things about Matt.

1 comment:

Bill said...

e-mail from Dave Silver, 9-19-05

Jill reports that Matt showed minor improvement today. ICP only slightly raised. When briefly taken off sedatives, reached to remove ventilator. When mouth was irrigated, showed irritation. Hospital staff provoked him, and he opened eyes. When light was shined into eyes, showed dilation. All improvements over yesterday when he was nonresponsive. Matt had 5 friends visit from Ft. Pierce. Jill took them in one at a time for 2 minutes. She said one of the boys just cried and cried when he saw Matt. The other boy who was in the accident, Howie, is doing a little better than Matt. He has extensive family in the Miami area, and his mother and grandmother are Christians and have prayed together with Jill. Jill was delighted that Matt's day nurse is a Christian as well. This will be a long haul. I'll probably go down by this weekend, and let Jill come home. Thanks for your prayers and heartfelt concern. We have been stengthened by the prayers of the saints, and attribute Matt's minor improvement to that as well.
Love, David