[plug] leon brooks the amazing one

[Tim Bowden]

Now that Leon is seeing the world around him, I think now is the time to
make use of that money we put together.  If anyone still wants to
contribute, send me a mail off list.  We need to decide quite soon what
we want to get him.

Tim Bowden

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 10:18 +0800, Alex Polglaze wrote:
> This is amazing
> 
> Message forwarded in its entirety.
> 
> Alex
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: FW: Leon! woohoo!
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:01:10 +0800
> From: Chris Cobb <chriscobb at aapt.net.au>
> To: <chriscobb at aapt.net.au>
> 
> Praise the Lord - He is working in mighty ways to uphold His flock.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucy Brooks [mailto:lucy at brooks.fdns.net]
> Sent: Friday, 10 March 2006 8:30 AM
> To: Chris Cobb
> Subject: Leon! woohoo!
> 
> 
> Leon was conscious most of the day yesterday (thursday), and very much in
> his
> own mind!
> Yesterday, when I arrived at the hospital, he had been positioned in the
> pink
> chair again, and was holding his head up with minimum support, and
> impatiently jiggling his legs and tapping his fingers, while looking
> huntedly
> about the room, obviously unhappy with his situation. Through answering
> yes/no questions with a nod or head shake, he was able to communicate (quite
> emphatically!) that he was very angry, and depressed, and in quite some pain
> from his back in the position he was placed, and frustrated about not being
> able to speak, or make himself understood when he mouthed words. He let me
> know that he didn't want me to leave him, even to go to the toilet, that he
> was scared of the prison his body was being, and he wanted to get back on
> top
> of things, specifically asking for his laptop!
> 
> He also made a joke, by grinning and winking at my sister Jane when she said
> that how he was conscious again, she wouldn't be holding his hand and
> rubbing
> his belly anymore! So he is truly Leon, and I am so thankful to God for his
> mercy...Leon has not had the past fortnight to work through this, and fall
> into the arms of a Loving God, so he will continue to need your prayers for
> his emotional and spiritual recovery just as much as for his physical
> recovery. I over heard the doctor saying yesterday that "Only Mrs Brooks
> believed he was in there, all the clinical signs showed otherwise, a
> remarkable recovery" (of his faculties)! I would add to that that Mrs
> Lazidis
> (Leon's sister) and Mrs Gibbons-Eyre (my sister) also were convinced that he
> was "him" inside that lump of unconsious humanity that the medical staff
> were
> working hard to keep alive... but that only God knows for sure what is going
> on!
> 
> Lucyxx
> 
> Please pray that I can locate Leon's mobile phone...I have mislaid it, maybe
> it fell out of my bag while I was at hospital, or getting in or out of
> someone's car?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
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