Tyler continues minor excursions from normal, but for the most part he is stable. His eyes opened the widest we've seen to date. He still isn't responsive, so we have no idea if anything is registering. We'd like to think so.
Thanks to and old friend ,Cheryl, we've been made aware of an ancient Jewish custom of adding to, or renaming a sick or injured loved one in order to facilitate healing. I spoke with Rabbi Atkins and he said it's traditional to add the name Chaim (a derivation of the word "LIFE") to a persons Hebrew name. I am going to minion (services) tomorrow AM to do just this.
Adversity is the first path to truth. ~Lord Byron
Yes, it is a good Jewish custom. When my mom was three years old she almost died of what I think they called rheumatic fever...was really not expected to come through, but two things happened (well, maybe more than two, but two that she always remembered) They changed her name from Shara (also they called her Shari) Cohn to Shara Merle Cohn. And the Catholic man across the street gave them a medallion and prayed in the name of St. Joseph. The funniest thing is, because of the Holocaust and other historical events, my folks, esp. mom, were always very antagonistic towards Christianity and to all expressions of it. When my mom died recently in her early 80's she mentioned semi-jokingly that she allowed her Christian friends to pray aloud for her because Jesus saved her when she was three. A loose analog to the no atheists in foxholes cliche. We continue to pray fervently for Tyler, and know the time is passing slowly but God is holding this situation in his hands.
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