Prayer for Jason

On Tuesday the 20th, Jon's brother Jason (the one he was building homes with in Utah) had a horrific accident. Jason and a guy working with him were up on some scaffolding working on some soffits up at the roof line of Jason's house and a huge gust of wind or a micro burst came up and blew them clean off the scaffolding, and blew the scaffolding down. They fell 18' to the ground with the scaffolding coming down all around them. The other guy fell in a window well and broke both of his legs and part of his back, he has surgery yesterday morning for his back and is in a lot of pain; that is all that we know on him. Jason, on the other hand, we know lots more. Jason also fell 18' but landed flat on his face crushing every bone and structure in his face. (I would put up the pics but they are pretty gross) We think he must have been knocked out on the way down or something, to explain why he didn't have his hands and arms out in front of him to block the fall; but then he says he thinks he remembers crawling over to his pickup and calling someone, so we're not too sure. They life flighted him to Regional Medical in Provo and then proceeded with a 7.5 hour surgery to reconstruct everything. The doctors say that there was only bone dust and fragments left. He came out of the surgery with: a tracheotomy, wired shut jaw, 10 titanium plates in his face, 50-60 pediatric screw (the adult ones were too big), and lots of swelling. The doctors did an amazing job, he still looks like Jason-just a little puffier. He is on steroids to keep the swelling down, but has so far not complained much about pain, maybe it just hasn't hit him yet. He was also given a CAT scan yesterday morning that came back with great reports, no damage, no amnesia!! Thank the Lord!! And amazingly enough there is no neck damage, nor any other damage to the rest of his body-internal or external. Thank the Lord again!! He is very coherent and his brain is going non-stop, they actually had to give him stuff to help him relax and rest so that he could heal because he was too busy up there. His eyes are still pretty swollen but the outlook is good, he can see his visitors when someone is in there and he can track light, so the docs don't seem worried. Today they are pulling the IV's to put a tube directly to his heart for pure nutrition to build back up is blood. They told us that his blood count was really low from such a loss, but can't do a transfusion because of the trake. With the nutrition straight to his heart though, he should be able to build up his blood supply just fine, is what they are telling us. His overall prognosis is very good. So we as a family are simply asking that you might keep him in your prayers and his family that he will have a speedy recovery and that they will be able to cope with the trails and obstacles ahead.

WE LOVE YOU JASON AND RACHEL.