[plug] leon brooks the amazing one

[Michael L. Benjamin]

A small plush Tux, would be one suggestion.


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Tim Bowden
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:36 AM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] leon brooks the amazing one

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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