Reason to hope

I find I need to remind myself of reasons to hope for Anson.

I see statuses that remind me so much of things that Teri's parents, and even my mom, went through at the end of their lives.  But there are major differences between them: Teri's mom and dad were elderly, and their bodies were wracked by cancer and by infection; my mom's organs were ravaged by infection as well.  Their bodies had all been weakened severely in the first place, before they reached their end-of-life condition.  Anson, on the other hand, while he experienced a severe trauma, was an otherwise strong, healthy young man.  His body is trying to recover from one event - though it may have multiple implications, that isn't the same as having multiple, sequential, and long term issues, or having an underlying sickness that the body is already fighting off.

Of course, the greatest reason to hope is that we have entrusted his care to our loving God.