Prayer Please

My cousin Jason "Luke", who is 19 years old, was in a very bad car accident Friday night. He was riding in the back of a pick-up truck when they were rear-ended; he was thrown from the truck and hit some trees off the side of the road. They did emergency surgery on his colon here and then airlifted him to Shands in Gainesville, where he is in the surgical ICU. His pelvic bone is shattered and his bladder ruptured, he really needs your prayers.

They're planning on doing a surgery tomorrow that will last about 6 hours. I think they said they won't keep him so heavily sedated (he's basically been asleep since Saturday morning)after this surgery, I just pray he can stay strong when he sees how badly he is injured. We're probably going back down there Friday to see him. I think he'll have to have a few more surgeries after that. He will be in Shands for 4 to 6 weeks, and then the recovery will take about a year.

One of the nurses said that when Luke arrived at Shands, she saw that both of his parents are deceased, not knowing that he still has a big family with an aunt who is like a mother for him, and she really bonded with him. So it's comforting to know that the nurses there really pay attention to the patients and care for them above just the call of their job.

Please say a prayer for Luke.