Please remember the family of David Arvin in your prayers.  I received this message from my dear friend Julie (she took care of setting up allaboutabby.org).  I can't ever express what a wonderful blessing she has been in my life for the last 14 years or so!

For those of you praying, thank you and please keep it up. He really needs your prayers.

David was taken into surgery sometime around 2:30 a.m., according to Lance's last text message. My mom also just called and said that he is recently out of surgery, finished (for now) around 6am. The trauma team is basically uncovering more and more injuries and the road ahead is a perilous one. The total breaks in David's badly injured leg are nearly too numerous to count; between the ankle, tibia, and femur, there are close to (and maybe well over) 20 breaks, at least one of those being a compound break...a break thru the skin. After surgery on just the ankle area, basically just 4 hours of intensive "clean up" is all they could do, they tried removing the breathing tube, but David wasn't able to breathe on his own, so it's been reinserted. This could be due to the lung that is low-functioning, the pain that keeps him from taking deep breaths, the anesthesia, or all of it combined. That is obviously a big concern--his ability to breathe on his own.

I'm going to just kind of bullet point the other details because they came all together and I was still hung up on the number of breaks my mom described to me...

• The doctors are saying there is a 3 out of 5 chance his foot may not heal as hoped and he may lose it.

•It appears that a couple broken ribs caused the collapsed lung.

•He has lots of drain tubes from the major injuries and they are all draining blood. There still may be more internal injuries than expected. But for now, the tube in the lung is at least draining it and keeping it from filling up with fluid.

• There is a high risk of infection from the combined seriousness of the injuries. Please pray that he would be protected from getting blood clots, infections, and pneumonia.

•He definitely needs additional surgery, many of them, but they aren't planning to operate again until Monday. His injuries are too severe and they only addressed the ankle surgery because it was exposed to air and infection from the compound fracture.

• His shoulder or arm has at least four breaks and those will also be addressed later.

Accident details: It looks like there were 3 vehicles involved. David was hit head-on and basically received all the severe injuries since many of the hits came to his left driver's side. It took about 20 minutes for the accident response team to cut David out of the car. According to the wreckage, it's a miracle David is living--so there's God's first mighty act in all of this! We know there is a purpose to David's survival!

The other passenger, Bart Jones, is injured and will need surgery, but he has remained in the ER over night and his condition appears to be much more stable and less life-threatening than David's. He should make a full recovery.

To say the least, the extent of his injuries are very severe. We are all keeping a positive attitude and leaning into Jesus.

Please pray for David! And pray for Tina, Tim & Ashley, Lance, my Grandma, my parents, and our extended family. Please pray for guidance, wisdom, and revelation for David's doctors, surgeons, and nurses.

I will keep the updates coming. Thanks!