My heart is sad.
Sunday afternoon I was preparing to prep some cakes I am doing this week. I had just put the girls down for nap, and was so excited for them to wake up because I was going to take them to their (and mine) first ever "trunk or treat" night.
Then I got the text: Avery got in a bad wreck, she is on life support, and her boyfriend who was in the wreck with her didn't make it.
Not something you want to read.
Who is Avery? Avery was a girl I was discipling when she was in high school. Four years ago or so I was serving in the high school room and when I met her when she was 14, almost 15. She came to Jeremy broken & hurting & needing help, and so after he prayed with her he suggested she talk with me. So we met & there was an instant connection. So that is where our journey started, and we walked though a lot together. About 6months into our friendship she accepted Christ. I was so excited for her & the possibilities that were in front of her. I poured my heart into her. We hung out together, we did life, we did Bible study, and we even talked about how to combat what was to come. Sophomore & Junior year in high school...those dreaded years. Like with me, the pressures of high school life took over until slowly & slowly she pulled away. We got together about two years ago, but after that it was just a text every 6 months or so. I saw her about 9 months ago at her job. It was just a quick hello, but it was still my Avery.
So after getting the text I immediately canceled all other plans & headed up to UVA with a few others. I don't know what the plan was when we got there. I did expect to get to see her I suppose...but as we arrived they restricted all but close family to see her. I should not be surprised, but I was really sad. I just wanted to see her, hold her hand, and tell her I was here for here, and most importantly God was too.
I'm not going to sugar coat this...she is not expected to make it. She was thrown 70 feet from the car, crushed pelvis, ruptured spleen, liver was severed, and there was bleeding in her brain. She was taken to emergency surgery this morning at 5am because the inter cranial pressure spiked & they had to relieve it. Doctors said to prepare, as there is a chance she might not make it.
(Just got an update)
Avery made it though surgery, they had some problems ventilating her, but she made it & will be back in her room in an hour or so.
I don't even know how what to say. I don't know how to pray, I just know my heart is sad & breaking. For her, for her family, and for her boyfriends family. You just never picture things like this happening, and then when they do its just like you stand back & let the chips fall as they may. Above all else, God is still God & he still reigns on high. He is alive & active and in this...what ever outcome.
Please pray with me that His will be done.
Thank you.
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Campbell Co., VA - State Police say a wreck Saturday night in the 700 block of Candlers Mountain Road in Campbell County killed a man and severely injured a woman. They say the wreck happened just before 9 p.m.
Neighbors say this area of Candlers Mountain Road is known for accidents, the man who lives on the property where the accident occurred, says in the 11 years he's lived there, he has seen 11 accidents. But he says none were as tragic as the one last night.
"After they hit the Pine tree and took that down, it disintegrated the vehicle," said John Jenkins, who heard the wreck happen in front of his house.
Jenkins says the sounds he heard were terrifying, as the car wrecked in his front yard.
"We went down and started checking the area to see if anybody was hurt, and we found one person thrown out and we were trying to take care of her," said Jenkins.
That person was 19-year-old Susan Avery Campbell. She was airlifted from a nearby field, and is currently undergoing treatment at UVA Medical Center.
Once Campbell was found, Jenkins and his wife, Sharon, say they helped officials look for her personal belongings. That's when they found 21-year-old Chad Marlowe.
"We started looking for her pocketbook, and that's when me and my daughter's boyfriend ran into him," said Sharon Jenkins.
State Police say Marlowe died at the scene; they say neither was wearing a seat belt.
"And then to know he was a friend of my sons' I mean, he has been to my house several times and he had a lot of friends," said Sharon Jenkins.
Darlene Hensley knew Marlowe from high school. They both went to Heritage High School.
"He made everybody smile, all of his friends loved him because he was always fun loving and care free," said Hensley.
As for Jenkins, he just wishes people driving in the neighborhood, would be more careful.
"The big thing here is everybody out there please wear your seatbelt, we've had that helicopter land in the field way too many times," said John Jenkins.
State police aren't saying whether or not speed was a factor in this wreck, but neighbors do say that the speed limit on this road was recently lowered from 55 miles per hour to 45.
The crash is under investigation.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Food Addict?
Every quarter or so, my work will do these things called "Lunch & Learn." Its where they provide you a healthy lunch & then talk to you about something regarding health. Today topic was: Food & your Mood.
It was talking about how much of what we eat really does change & alter the chemicals in our bodies to eventually change our moods. Good or bad. It was just really intreging and captured my attention.
This is a quiz you can take to see if you are a food addict.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/quiz-are-you-addicted-to-food/
Then I found this article within that article...which is just super interesting so I thought I would share! (Here is the link http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/craving-an-ice-cream-fix/ or you can read it below).
The notion that food can be addictive has been debated for some time and largely rejected by both nutrition and addiction researchers. But this spring, the secretary of health, Kathleen Sebelius, said that for some, obesity is “an addiction like smoking.” One month earlier, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, gave a lecture at Rockefeller University, making the case that food and drug addictions have much in common, particularly in the way that both disrupt the parts of the brain involved in pleasure and self-control.
Princeton University and University of Florida researchers have found that sugar-binging rats show signs of opiatelike withdrawal when their sugar is taken away — including chattering teeth, tremoring forepaws and the shakes. When the rats were allowed to resume eating sugar two weeks later, they pressed the food lever so frantically that they consumed 23 percent more than before. Scientists in California and Italy last year reported that the digestive systems of rats on a fatty liquid diet began producing endocannabinoids, chemicals similar to those produced by marijuana use.
Earlier this year, scientists at the Oregon Research Institute conducted brain-scan studies on children who looked at pictures of chocolate milkshakes and later consumed shakes. Their findings suggest that just as drug abusers and alcoholics need increasingly larger doses over time, children who are regular ice-cream eaters may require more and more ice cream for the reward centers of their brains to indicate that they are satisfied.
Dr. Pamela Peeke, assistant professor at the University of Maryland and author of “The Hunger Fix,” says that meditation and exercise can help engage the brain to overcome food addiction. As a heroin user might rely on methadone to alleviate withdrawal, food addicts, she says, should seek alternatives that still give pleasure — a fruit smoothie, for example, instead of ice cream.
Food addiction seems to be linked to the types of foods we’re consuming. Dr. Kelly D. Brownell, director of Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, notes that the human body is biologically adapted to deal with foods found in nature, not processed foods.
“We don’t abuse lettuce, turnips and oranges,” says Dr. Brownell, co-editor of the new book “Food and Addiction.” “But when a highly processed food is eaten, the body may go haywire. Nobody abuses corn as far as I know, but when you process it into Cheetos, what happens?”
Dr. David A. Kessler, the former F.D.A. commissioner, described these products as “hyperpalatable” foods created to tantalize our taste buds by focusing on the right combination of salty, sweet and fatty ingredients along with “mouth-feel.”
Dr. Brownell says that the brain science should lead us to question how food companies are manipulating their products to get us hooked. “With these foods, personal will and good judgment get overridden. People want these foods, dream about these foods, crave them.”
It was talking about how much of what we eat really does change & alter the chemicals in our bodies to eventually change our moods. Good or bad. It was just really intreging and captured my attention.
This is a quiz you can take to see if you are a food addict.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/quiz-are-you-addicted-to-food/
Then I found this article within that article...which is just super interesting so I thought I would share! (Here is the link http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/craving-an-ice-cream-fix/ or you can read it below).
The notion that food can be addictive has been debated for some time and largely rejected by both nutrition and addiction researchers. But this spring, the secretary of health, Kathleen Sebelius, said that for some, obesity is “an addiction like smoking.” One month earlier, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, gave a lecture at Rockefeller University, making the case that food and drug addictions have much in common, particularly in the way that both disrupt the parts of the brain involved in pleasure and self-control.
Princeton University and University of Florida researchers have found that sugar-binging rats show signs of opiatelike withdrawal when their sugar is taken away — including chattering teeth, tremoring forepaws and the shakes. When the rats were allowed to resume eating sugar two weeks later, they pressed the food lever so frantically that they consumed 23 percent more than before. Scientists in California and Italy last year reported that the digestive systems of rats on a fatty liquid diet began producing endocannabinoids, chemicals similar to those produced by marijuana use.
Earlier this year, scientists at the Oregon Research Institute conducted brain-scan studies on children who looked at pictures of chocolate milkshakes and later consumed shakes. Their findings suggest that just as drug abusers and alcoholics need increasingly larger doses over time, children who are regular ice-cream eaters may require more and more ice cream for the reward centers of their brains to indicate that they are satisfied.
Dr. Pamela Peeke, assistant professor at the University of Maryland and author of “The Hunger Fix,” says that meditation and exercise can help engage the brain to overcome food addiction. As a heroin user might rely on methadone to alleviate withdrawal, food addicts, she says, should seek alternatives that still give pleasure — a fruit smoothie, for example, instead of ice cream.
Food addiction seems to be linked to the types of foods we’re consuming. Dr. Kelly D. Brownell, director of Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, notes that the human body is biologically adapted to deal with foods found in nature, not processed foods.
“We don’t abuse lettuce, turnips and oranges,” says Dr. Brownell, co-editor of the new book “Food and Addiction.” “But when a highly processed food is eaten, the body may go haywire. Nobody abuses corn as far as I know, but when you process it into Cheetos, what happens?”
Dr. David A. Kessler, the former F.D.A. commissioner, described these products as “hyperpalatable” foods created to tantalize our taste buds by focusing on the right combination of salty, sweet and fatty ingredients along with “mouth-feel.”
Dr. Brownell says that the brain science should lead us to question how food companies are manipulating their products to get us hooked. “With these foods, personal will and good judgment get overridden. People want these foods, dream about these foods, crave them.”
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The Beat Goes On
Life has been busy.
The really hard part about life being so busy, is that I sit behind a desk from 7am until 4:30pm wasting away wishing, waiting until 4:30pm rolls around so I can actually live life that day.
Something has to give.
I think that is why I text & email so much, because I'm starving for life. Someone, please email me, text me, talk to me, connect with me so I feel apart of something & not just waisting away each and every day.
Life is lonely behind this desk.
Ever have those moments where there is something that you can see yourself doing, but the current place you are in does not make this thing you see yourself doing possible? That's kind of where I'm at.
But when I take a deep breath & trust that there is light at the end of this tunnel I'm sitting in...I rest.
I know that He is for me, I know that He will never forsake me in my weakness, and I know that He will come down...even if to write upon my heart...to remind me....yes I am quoting a song. :) But I mean these words. They are beautiful & bring me rest.
And when I rest....this desk doesn't seem so lonely after all.
The really hard part about life being so busy, is that I sit behind a desk from 7am until 4:30pm wasting away wishing, waiting until 4:30pm rolls around so I can actually live life that day.
Something has to give.
I think that is why I text & email so much, because I'm starving for life. Someone, please email me, text me, talk to me, connect with me so I feel apart of something & not just waisting away each and every day.
Life is lonely behind this desk.
Ever have those moments where there is something that you can see yourself doing, but the current place you are in does not make this thing you see yourself doing possible? That's kind of where I'm at.
But when I take a deep breath & trust that there is light at the end of this tunnel I'm sitting in...I rest.
I know that He is for me, I know that He will never forsake me in my weakness, and I know that He will come down...even if to write upon my heart...to remind me....yes I am quoting a song. :) But I mean these words. They are beautiful & bring me rest.
And when I rest....this desk doesn't seem so lonely after all.
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