Jessica's Story:
At 9:40 am on Sunday, August 2, 2009, Jessica Huse left her home to attend Church services. A few minutes later, she was involved in a serious car accident and rushed to Valley Medical Center in critical condition. Jessica stayed in the hospital until February 2010. She suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and remains in a semi-conscious state. Desperate to help their daughter
, Jessica’s parents have been contacting specialists from around the country. In July of 2010, they received a call from Dr. Defina of the International Brain Research Foundation in New Jersey who agreed to treat Jessica’s brain injury and assist in waking her. The national average success rate for serious TBI injury recovery is 5%. Dr. Defina has an 85% success rate and is sought-out world-wide for his medical procedure. This program is very expensive and we are doing our best to raise money to get Jessica this chance for a full recovery and to assist with the ongoing, daily medical expenses. Since the start of the Protocol in September test results show that Jessica's brain activity has improved 15-20%. Its now time for Jessica to travel to New Jersey, where she can get benefit from the round the clock care of IBRF at Meadowlands Hospital. With doctors, scientists, therapists, nurses and the family's strong faith in God they believe Jessica will wake. The family works tirelessly caring for Jessica round the clock at home now and needs to raise funds for medical expenses, travel expenses and to find a plane that can transport Jessica with her medical needs. We invite you to join this group and support this family with your thoughts and prayers. You will notice that WHATEVER IT TAKES is the family motto and 10-3-10 has been the times of day we stop to think and pray for Jessica. This started from the beginning when Jessica was in ICU and Jessica's Mother requested these times to remind people to stop and pray. We continue to do so and Jessica's Mom updates weekly on the progress of their daughter. To leave prayers, support and words of encouragement, please feel free to do so by going to the 'Wall' tab
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THE MEANING BEHIND 10-3-10
It started way back at the hospital when we were told Jessica would not make it and her nights were very very hard. Filled with breathing issues, heart rate soaring and constant fear of losing her. I (Jessica's Mom) woke up from a nap one day and felt the need to ask people to pray all at the same time. I and her friend Kayleigh came up with 10-3-10. Being that we are not morning people figured everyone would be up by 10 a.m. :)
3 p.m. to catch the middle of the day and 10 p.m. being the strongest to get us through the night. For months we gathered in the hallways or at Jessica's bedside at the hospital at these times. 10 p.m. being the most popular we sometimes had 25 people in the hallways. We got special permission from her doctor who wrote it as a order ((prescription type request to staff) so we would not have nurses etc. telling us we could not have visitors during off visiting hours). We continue to have alarms go off each day on our cell phones etc. to remind us to stop and pray for Jessica. We still welcome and are thankful each day for those who join us. It is comforting to know that we are not alone in this. Thank you to all our 10-3-10 prayer warriors!
