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Wow, must have been a hell of an accident. He was on his way home from filming for his YT channel. They don't say anything specific about his accident.

THis is the update from yesterday.

Thank you for your patience. It has been an eventful night/morning with many moving parts. Please pray for the following points:

- the dance between using anticoagulants and controlling bleeding in the brain/abdomen continues. They stopped his heparin yesterday afternoon as his hemoglobin levels dropped below 7 and he had to have two blood transfusions. This morning his CT showed an increase of blood in that left side of his brain as well as a number of small strokes. We still do not know the impact or extent of these. Please pray that there are no long term impacts from them. They did another brain surgery to remove the blood from that left side. All went well in the surgery. They plan to restart him on a low dose of heparin later this afternoon. Please pray that he would tolerate the heparin without any increased bleeding so we can prevent any further strokes. Also pray for an improved CT tomorrow morning so that we can discuss getting a trach done to limit all the discomfort caused by the ET tube.

- Andrew had a chest tube placed late last night to drain fluid from his chest cavity. They were able to drain a liter of blood. This has seemed to help stabilize his hemoglobin levels and subsequent chest X-rays have showed improvement but not complete resolution of fluid in the chest cavity. Please pray for an end to all bleeding as well as good clotting and absorption of blood from his injuries.

- His oxygen needs have been varying a lot. Right now we are praying his hemoglobin levels remain above 8 (to help w O2 absorption) and his oxygen needs fall below 50% O2.

- CT of abdomen showed stable bleeding related to the spleen and that lumbar region so the trauma team was happy with that.

- Please pray for complete healing. The Lord has so much more left to do with Andrew’s life. We are remaining hopeful and believing in the Lord’s faithfulness.

- Please also pray for good rest and strength for myself and all our family and friends that are in town supporting us at this time.

Grateful for so many wonderful medical personnel going above and beyond to care for Andrew, small breaks to get outside in the sunshine and breathe, and supernatural moments of peace, strength and joy in the midst of so much suffering.