Prayers Needed

This was an e-mail sent out by a BSS (Jaz's school) faculty member and I felt like I should send along:

"There will be prayers offered in the church at 5:00 tonight for Jack Londrigan, a 7th grade student at BSS. He was admitted to Memorial hospital on Friday and was moved to the ICU at St. John's on Saturday. What started out as Rocky Mountain Spotted fever has become septic. He has had surgery and they are currently preparing him to be transferred to a hospital in St. Louis. His condition is very serious.

We have all witnessed the power of prayer. Please join us if you can possibly make it.

If not, please keep him and his family in your prayers."

A little update from the parents:
June 29, 2009 9:30pm
From Tom
Jack had nice day today. His left lung is improving. He was removed from the medication that keeps him paralytic (still on sedation though) and so his arms and legs started to move. He also briefly opened his eyes. Tomorrow starts a more aggressive routine to ween him from the ventilator but it may still take a few days until he is conscious and breathing on his own... of course, barring complications. Thank you for all your prayers... don't stop.

Betsy Dirksen Londrigan (Urbana / Champaign, IL) wrote
at 5:50pm
Jack has been holding his own today with no help from a breathing machine! Between physcial therapy, repiratory therapy, doctors checking him and Mom and Dad getting him to eat, he had a very busy morning followed by a longer nap. Right now, he is happy as a clam. His brother, cousin and buddy are watching a video his Aunt bought him .......The Best of Will Ferrell from SNL. I think they call that laugh therapy. Just nice to see. Our next order of business is getting his digestive system up and running---last real food was a Maid-rite for lunch on June 20th. We will also be trying to get him weight bearing on his legs and hips. Slowly but surely still moving forward....powered by prayer.