Updated on September 23, 2014 by Christophers Mother, Tena Hamrick-Schneider: Christopher Hamrick is now 14 years old. On September 23, 2012, when Christopher was 12 years old, we were in a tragic car accident. Christopher was in the back seat of our family car. We were stopped on Route 19 at Mt. Nebo, WV, at a red light when a tractor & trailer who was nowhere in sight when we stopped at the red light came up behind us at a high rate of speed & did not stop. The tractor part of the truck struck the back of our car & run up on top of the side of the car Christopher was sitting on. Then the logging trailer that was attached to the truck struck the same side of our car as it jack knifed, pushing us into a concrete light pole which was alongside the road. Christopher was trapped in the rubble of what was once the back seat of our car. The whole trunk area of the car was pushed up into Christopher & he had to be cut out of the rubble of metal by the Jaws of Life. He was life- fllighted to Charleston, WV, where we were given no hope for his poor little life. We as parents could not give up on our baby boy no matter how bad of news we received. We were told by the doctors that there should have been no way possible that Christophers little body could sustain the damage that it had & still survive. Christopher was in Charleston, WV, in intensive care where he had to have his skull removed due to having a large amount of fluid & swelling on his brain. They told us in the hospital that his brain stem & brain was so destroyed that he would never come off of the ventilator & would never be able to breathe on his own, control his blood pressure or do anything the body regulates on its own. He had several broken ribs, a broken leg, his lungs were collapsed, he lost a kidney, & the list goes on & on. The doctors were basically going to send Christopher home to die. They said there was no hope. We could not let our son go that easily. We fought for our sons rights to continue medical care & on October 18, 2012, Christopher was transferred to HealthSouth in Morgantown, WV, to continue to receive medical care & rehabilitation. Christopher had several surgeries & had his final surgery of getting his skull put back in the month of April, 2013, which is when he released from HealthSouth at Morgantown, WV. We have had him at home since that time & have been working with him on our own along with some wonderful nurses that he has. We have started some outpatient physical therapy but have not been given much hope by his therapists. Doctors & therapists have discouraged us to continue our fight of finding help for our son to improve, but we keep fighting the fight as any parents would to help our son. God spared Christophers life that horrible September day & I believe God has a plan for him. That is why this prayer page is still in circulation. We need the prayers & encouragement from other Christians who believe God can still perform miracles.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:25:12 +0000
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