God is taking care of our Annie!

If you prayed at all today for Annie, please know God answered your prayers! We went for the bath and I (Missy) felt like I was going into a torture chamber. However, once we were in there we realized it wasn't so bad and God was there with us. Annie was calm and although it was painful, she just let out small whimpers. The nurses that were changing her bandages said she had a very high pain tolerance level. Takes after her mom! ;o) As we were getting to know the 2 nurses we found out that one of them named Julie, has a youth pastor husband at a Church here in Texas. God knew how much that would mean to us! They both took great care of her and she did well. As they were washing her hair she looked up at them and said, "Thank you!" Melted all of our hearts! After that she enjoyed eating her Chick-fil-a nuggets. The physical therapy went well too. She walked with assistance around a few hallways.The prognosis is that by next week she should be walking on her own. She also sat in a chair and played with various toys. All in all we consider the day to have gone nothing more than PERFECT!! We continue to ask for prayer for her as she is trying to avoid using the potty. We have now read EVERY email and blog post and can't tell you how you have all touched our lives through the outpouring of love and prayers. I said a prayer for each of you today. We have a few more pictures added in the rotation and there will be more to come. Love to you all!

Annie had a great night!

Just passing along that Annie had a really good night sleep and is showing more of her personality this morning by talking and asking for some food. We had two good friends, Mike and Keri Franz, arrived last night from our home church. They are going to be a great help especially with the boys. Your prayers are working as Annie is doing better each day. We have been humbled by your comments which are coming from all over the world. What an awesome example of the body of Christ and power of prayer.

We are headed off to the hospital shortly for Annie's first bath and some physical therapy. We will let you know this evening how things went. We should have some new pictures up some time this morning.

Love to all, The Woods

Annie is out of the hospital!

Hi everyone,
We have just arrived at a hotel that a church here in Galveston arranged for us to stay in for now. Annie was discharged from the hospital and is now trying to rest comfortably here in her new environment. She is doing well but, still has a great deal of pain in her hand and when she goes potty. Please continue to pray for a quick recovery. She has to learn to walk again as her legs were badly burnt, and how to use her right hand as it was burnt bad too. She will receive that therapy at Shriners Hospital here for the next 2 weeks. She is exhausted and is going to have a hard day tomorrow, she will definitely need your prayers then! She will have her first bath at noon EST tomorrow and her first physical therapy session at 4:00pm EST. We have been warned that this will NOT be a very fun day for any of us. We are so thankful that we have 3 friends from our home church,arriving tonight to help us with the boys and Annie. I am continually amazed and brought to tears by the outpouring of love that has been shown to us by our company, many churches all over the world and our precious  friends in Mexico, and The Shriners Hospital here in Galveston and we will never be able to truly express our gratitude to all of the ones who have helped us! We love you all and will continue to update you as much as we can and will add more pictures soon too. Until then..... God Bless You All!!!

Monday Night Update

Hi all,

Greg, the boys, and I (Donny) just left Missy and Annie at the hospital. We have been working hard to day to get some logistical things accomplished. We were able to get the boys out to a fun restaurant today. They have done so well after being cooped up for over 2 days. We have arranged a vehicle for the Woods thanks to Macedonian Call Foundation and we are still working on our long-term housing options. Pray that this would be resolved quickly.

Annie was able to leave the room a good bit today and ride around the hospital in a wagon. We will try to post a video and some more pictures later tonight. She is doing very well considering the circumstances. Her hand is itching and and she is having a hard time getting comfortable.

Greg and Missy are checking your comments frequently. It means a lot to them and the boys are loving seeing that people all over the world are leaving comments.

First Update

Hi everyone!

Wow! When there is a need, it is awesome to know that we have you praying. Greg and I have been overwhelmed with all of your love and prayers you have shown us and lifted up on our families'  behalf. I know many of you have tried to call us, however since only one of us can be with Annie we don't have time to talk. I am sorry, I would love to talk to you all and tell you all how it happened, how she responded and how God moved mountains to get us from village in the middle of Mexico to the Shriners Hospital in Texas within less than 24 hours. However, since we can not talk to each one of you personally, we wanted to share what has happened through this blog. We will be updating this as often as possible to tell you of Annie's progress and her immediate prayer needs. 

I will give you the short story on how this happened. On Saturday, we had a group of doctors from a larger city come to offer services to our friends in the village. I (Missy) was in charge of preparing the food for them. So my friends and I began fixing the food at my house. We were fixing the food village style. We cooked a large amount of food over an open fire outside. That food was brought inside and put on the floor in the kitchen while they prepared to gather all of the food to take the doctors. This food was in a large round washtub looking thing.  I left Annie there, in our house with my friends, while I went to buy tortillas. Annie was in the kitchen and stumbled backwards and fell in this big washtub full of food that had been boiling. Once she was brought to Greg and I, we rushed her to the nearest ER about 45 minutes away. There she was treated by a plastic surgeon who suggested we have her treated in the US.  Twenty-four hours later we landed in Galveston, Texas and she was admitted to the Shriners burn center. 

She has second degree burns on 22 percent of her body with 2 places being close to 3rd degree. Those 2 places will be watched to see if she will need skin grafts on them over the next 2 weeks. Last night, (Sunday) was a good night for the most part. Annie was heavily sedated and rested well. That was the calm before the storm. At 6:30 am she woke up and cried for the next 4 hours. After giving her a pain medicine, Benedryl, Valium, and Morphine, she finally went to sleep. Please continue to pray for her as she is very restless and in a lot of pain. Her right hand is giving her a huge amount of problems. She is mad that she can't use it. Greg is with her now and said she is still cranky, but she has gotten out of bed and gone on a wagon ride. She told him she would be good if I would buy her a coloring book and crayons. So, we are off to the store to buy coloring books and crayons. I will keep you all updated as much as possible. I guess I should ask for prayer for me too, as I have tried not to cry in front of her, but sometimes that is very difficult. So, thank you all for everything!