Praying for Jason Martin!!!!

Jason Martin is one of my good friends. He was at Frazer before I went, so I didn't know him too long. He is Brandon's best friend. Jason loves the Lord with everything he has! He has six little brothers, Jordan, Jack, Justin, Jacob, J, and Joseph. His dad is in the military so this past summer, the Martins moved to Tampa. Jason, Jordan, and their dad, John, come up to most of the Frazer church retreats. They were at DNow this past February. 

Baseball game began Thursday night at 6pm.
At about 6:15 Jason was hit.

Smack.
Blood.
Blood.
Blood.

Spit.
Blood.
Blood.
Blood.

Turns out it was a 92 mph fast ball.
I know this only because the other teams pitcher is ginormous
incredibly talented
and was being scouted by scouts with radar guns pointed at him.

92mph fast ball
vs
Jason's jaw.  

At first I thought he had just lost a tooth or two.

Psssh.
No bigs.
We will deal with that after the game.

It's how I roll.
And I know it's how he rolls.
This was a big game after all.

But then after about 5 minutes of spitting up blood he said,
"Mom, my face is numb."
only it sounded like
"Maaww mi fasssss iz num" 

And I don't know much.
But I knew at that point it was more than a tooth.

So off we went to the nearest acute minor illness clinic with xray capability.
They took him right back and
shockers
they thought his jaw was fractured at the point of impact without even doing an xray yet.

And a bit of trivia here for you:
Apparently mandible fractures don't show up on regular xrays.
Nope.
Tis true.
They said he needs a dental panoramic xray
or a CT scan.

Neither of which they have there.
So off we go to the local community hospital.

CT scan.
Fracture
Fracture
Fracture
on both sides of his jaw.

Dandy.
Just dandy.

So a few hours later....circa 12:55 am....after communicating with the local children's hospital, loading him up with anti-inflammatory meds to combat the excessive swelling, fluids and some antibiotics they loaded him up in an ambulance and we were told to expect surgery first thing in the morning.

Mrs. Sonia was told that Jason's jaw was aligned. He wasn't going to need surgery. He went back to the doctor and this is the news they got.

After a no good terrible horrible rough day yesterday
We found out that Jason will be having surgery today
to wire his jaw shut
for 6 weeks.

Surgery at 12:15, please pray for Jason!

If you want to keep up with Jasons injury, Mrs. Sonia will keeps us posted at cheaperbythehalfdozens.blogspot.com