Today we had the Noah's Lemonade Stand fundraiser, and it was a blast! Thank you everyone who came, helped, organized, and/or donated! We will try to have the, "Unbreakable Spirit" Noah pins at future fundraisers--they were a big success today! Friends, family, and complete strangers rotated through all day, and everyone was just amazingly generous. Shelby and Camden did a great job executing their ideas and sold tons of yummy lemonade. They really did help Noah, "one glass at a time." While this fundraiser was an amazing beginning, we are truly just getting started. Noah is so overwhelmed by all of the support, and his recovery is so much more barable because of your positivity.
(thanks Shoprite and Acme, for the lemonade and cups! Thanks again Howertons, you rock! Thanks SOJO for the advertising!)
As most of you know Noah's story was on NBC 10's 5 and 6 o'clock news tonight. Many people have asked us to post it. For now the 1st video is not the best quality...but it is better than nothing! 5 o'clock segment:
6 o'clock segment(slightly different from first but better quality!)
Noah got his 5th cat scan this morning and the results came back that the hematoma has not grew any larger and seems to be dissolving!!! Yay, no surgery! We had a good feeling that the blood would be absorbed instead of surgically removed, so it was a relief to hear it from the doctor. Noah has been doing a lot of sleeping and has eaten a few bites of food today. He has been eating mostly grapes...he was craving them so bad! Noah has felt everyones prayers, love and concern for him. He is very grateful and can not believe all that is being done on his behalf. Thank you!
On Thursday July 16, 2009 around 5:40pm my Mom, Noah and I were leaving the house for dinner and got a mile and a half down the road when a Blazer raced through a stop sign at Trento and Cornucopia and hit our van on the driver’s side near the back tire. We flipped two or three times and skid until we hit a telephone pole, where we landed on the driver’s side of the van. My mom and I immediately unbuckled to get to Noah. My mom climbed to the back of the van and tried kicking out the windows or door because all other doors were so badly damaged they were sealed. I went to Noah's side while she yelled for help. Noah was thrown from his wheelchair and ended up lying under his 300-pound wheelchair, which was dangling by the safety straps about a foot above his body. My mom and I could not pick him up because he was literally sandwiched. Each time we tired to move him closer to the door we knew he was in severe pain. We remember him telling us "It's okay, I think I'm going to need some medicine." There was a pool of blood around his head so we did not know what to expect besides we knew he had broken many bones. A guy, we now refer to as “our angel” ran to help us almost immediately and we asked him to hold the wheelchair up just in case it fell. He was very calming and helpful. We do not know exactly who this "angel", as we call him is yet. He held Noah's bloody head in one hand while the other was holding up the wheelchair. He was amazing. Eventually Noah was moved out when my Father climbed into the van where Noah was propped on my mom's legs and laid him on the back door of the van. It turns out the guy who hit us fled the scene on foot as all of this chaos took place...supposedly his blue/green Blazer was unregistered/uninsured, and has Texas plates. This was literally a HIT and RUN. The police found empty beer cans all over inside his vehicle and a 12 pack of unopened ones. We are guessing he was drunk when he hit us and ran into a field. From the recent newspaper article is sounds like police have a suspect.
Noah fractured 4 parts of his skull, which resulted in a large epidural hematoma. He had a severe amount of bleeding internally there but that has stopped. The doctors think it is because his fractured skull allowed the hematoma room to expand. Hopefully the blood will absorb back into his body but if not it will have to be surgically evacuated. Noah broke both femurs, both tibias, both radius, both ankles, his left humerus and ulna, his right hand, right hip, and lastly some fingers too. All of the just mentioned fractures are complete breaks...the bones were separated. He also has other minor fractures in his neck, limbs and possibly a rib, among others.He has been in the ICU at Cooper for 7 days now, and they said he will be there until tomorrow (Thursday). He is getting a cat scan tomorrow to check the progress of the hematoma. Noah is stable and doing better than expected. It is a miracle we are all alive...it truly is! Noah has the longest recovery ahead of him, but with prayer anything is possible. Thank you all for your prayers and fasting, we know those prayers have been answered as we speak with Noah and monitor his miraculous recovery.
