First bath at home

Hi everyone,

Our first bath at home went well. When I say "bath" now, I mean we actually put her in the tub. Annie was very nervous but was very brave. She is extremely scared of water. She has to touch it before she will even think about getting in it. Please pray she will get over this fear. Once she was in the tub, she just whimpered until we were done. That is a PRAISE!! She is sleeping a little better at night, however she still wakes up once or twice from bad dreams. The blessing is that she can't remember the bad dreams. She was so excited to see her "Mama Say and Honey."  They arrived last night and showered her with love. She is doing everything she can to impress them. She is walking more each day, however she still won't use her right hand very much. We are now trying to get used to the almost full body suit that she has to wear for the next 6 months. It is a little hot, but at the same time a blessing because she doesn't want anyone to see her booboos, and it covers them all up. We are trying to show her a good time during her week off from the doctor, however she is getting tired very easily and she still wants to sleep a lot. I guess our main prayer requests right now are for her to get over her mental anxiety, to use her right hand more, and for her big burn below her waist to heal. We love you so much and can't wait to see each one of you someday and personally thank you for praying for us!

No Dr. visit for a week!

Yea! Today after the nurses did their cleanings of her wounds, the Dr. came in and told us that he felt coming to the hospital was becoming too difficult for Annie mentally. He told us everything was healing well and if we continued to do the cleanings at home, we could take a break from the hospital for the next week. There is still one area below her waist that is concerning. The Dr. does not think she will need surgery, however he said it may take 3-4 weeks for that to heal. He will assess that next week when we return for her visit. That was a huge answer to prayer! Annie is definitely having some psychological difficulties due to the stress of her hospital visits. She has started to cry every time she has to go potty and she is favoring her left hand to avoid pain in her right hand. My ( Missy) parents arrive today and we are hoping to have a lot of grandparent time. Annie is really looking forward to this, so we hope to get her mind off of her burns and onto other things. Please continue to pray for us, we don't know how anyone can go through something like this without friends like all of you and a lot of prayer support! God has been so good to us with one blessing after another. One day I would love to share all of these blessings with each of you! Our Internet connection will not be very good for the next week, but I promise to try and post a blog once a day. Thanks for lifting us up to the Great Physician! Love you all!!

Pray for Mike and Keri!

Mike and Keri are leaving now and I just wanted to ask you to pray for a safe travel for them. They will be traveling by car until tomorrow night. We are so happy that God took care of their children so that they could be here and serve us. We are so thankful!

Another tough day behind us!

Hi everyone!

Today was one of those not so fun, days again. I (Missy) must say I am getting tired of expecting one thing and getting another. I am trying so hard to look at her cleanings positively, however some days that is harder than others. Today the nurses cleaned her wounds well. Imagine having a thick scab on top of a bad sunburn. Now imagine someone pulling the scab off piece by piece. That is pretty much what they did to her today. She screamed blood curdling screams for a long time. We are pretty sure a lot of her screaming comes from anxiety as well as it hurting her.

They are very pleased with how she is healing and continue to encourage us about her final outcome. At the same time they slowly give you news that you haven't yet heard. We were told today that the different pigment in her skin will slowly fade. They never say it will go away. Then they told us she has to wear this pink stocking on her arm, legs, torso and a glove on her right hand for the next 6 months to a year. EVERYDAY. That wasn't fun to hear. I am sooo grateful to God for healing her fast and for showing His face to us during this difficult time. At the same time I covet your prayers for our future. I think we still have a ways to go until we are done with the painful cleanings. We now have to try hard to keep these stockings on her in the heat and try to keep her from getting any sun. They have told us that if she gets any sun on the new skin it will stain her skin forever.


We are praising God for the good news that Annie is using her right hand more and she is beginning to walk more by herself. Her independent spirit is starting to come back as she is quite the fighter. Please pray for all of us. All of the emotional stress is starting to get to Greg and I. We hate seeing Annie in pain and know that is what must happen for her to heal.


We will never be able to express to you how much we appreciate your messages and more importantly, your prayers. We know we wouldn't be doing as well if it weren't for those prayers. We noticed that there have been 7543 hits to this blog and that shows us just how much people care about us and about our Annie. No words can express how that touches our hearts!

Sunday Report

Good Morning,

Sorry for no post in the afternoon yesterday as we took a Sunday off from the post as well. Once again we want to say we are overwhelmed by your comments that are coming from all over the world. So many of you we do not know personally but your prayers are appreciated and have power. Thank you, thank you.

We had an incredible time at Church yesterday. We had a pastor contact who met us at the door and others assisted Jerod, Alex and Annie to get them where they needed to go. It is a very large church but we were given a few minutes to share during the service and a prayer by the pastor. Annie was with Keri in the childrens area and played well and walked the whole time. She cried at the end as she did not want to leave. Thank you Sagemont for the love you showed us.

We had to give Annie another cleaning last night. This is still difficult to see Annie in pain as we clean and dress her wounds. Her skin is healing but please pray for faster healing as these are tough for Annie (and for us) and she definitely knows now when these times are coming and gets very anxious.

She is still sleeping right now and slept okay last night. We have an appointment later this morning at the hospital for another cleaning and some physical therapy. Keep up the prayers as they are working. We praise God she is walking more and trying to use her fingers on her right hand more to play. Her personality is back and she is talking lots. The first 4-5 days after the accident she talked very little.

We will check back in later. The Woods

Sunday - A Day Off

Yesterday evening we treated her wounds and had another tough time but those treatments are getting easier and faster with experience. She got her hair washed and a bird bath afterwards and felt great and slept pretty good overall. She is starting to move around and changing positions at night while sleeping which is good. She continues to have some nightmares so please pray that the nightmares will stop and for little Annie and her sleep at night.

Today is Sunday and we have a day off today from Doctor and therapy visits. The physical therapist wants Annie to use her legs and fingers and not just be sitting around the house all day. Thus, we are excited to be making a visit to a church today just outside of Galveston. Missy and I really need this and are excited about worship today in English. Our friend Keri, who is with us, offered to take Annie into the preschool room at the church and be her personal teacher so we could enjoy the service. Annie is showing more signs of trying to walk on her own but still is cautious and nervous so we are hoping that being in a classroom setting with other kids will help her in her movement and walking.

The doctor told us yesterday that you just have to be patient with burn injuries and wait. Thus, we are doing that and at the same time trying to work with Annie's walking and finger movement in her right hand. Please pray for Annie to get through her nervousness of walking and using her right hand. Pray for us for patience with each other as we are in the waiting process. Our friends will be leaving soon and Missy's parents will be arriving on Tuesday to help out which is a huge blessing. Jerod and Alex are doing well and we are doing our best to keep them from getting bored. Galveston is located on the Gulf so we had them out in the ocean for a little while yesterday.

Thus, off to worship and we will touch base later.

Baths are getting a little better

Today was a better day and there were a lot of tears. Annie had her bath at the hospital and cried her way through it. We were blessed by the nurse who did the cleaning super fast and it was over. When it was over Annie looked up at me and said, " I love you Mommy." At this point I was glad I wasn't the "meanie" today. She then heard a baby screaming in pain and said, " Mommy we need to pray for that baby because she is hurting bad." These burns may have hurt her skin, but her heart is exactly the same! Praise God! Greg and I did much better with the cleanings today and are determined to learn how to do this quickly. We were so encouraged because the Dr. said she was healing well. We were a little discouraged because he said what we thought were 2nd degree burns were actually 3rd degree burns. They will continue to watch these areas and see if she will need surgery. We are praying hard that she will heal without surgery. Annie is struggling with a lot of anxiety. She is scared to death of anything hot, scared to go potty, and scared of small insects. All of this is new to us. Please continue to pray for energy for all of us as we are literally exhausted and pray that Annie can learn to reuse her right hand and begin walking on her own. We read every post and continue to be blessed by each of you! Thank you so much!!