Update on Scott after his boating accident

First of all, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!  God is good and Scott is doing amazingly well.  Of course, God would be good even if Scott wasn't doing amazingly well, but it's a lot easier to say since he is!

This morning we found out more details.  After their boat sank on the lake (the motor died and two BIG swells knocked the boat over) both Scott and his friend Time tried to swim out.  Scott hadn't brought his new, wonderfully buoyant life jacket since there was an old one already in the boat, so, with all the fishing gear Scott had on, the jacket couldn't hold him up and he kept sinking and swallowing water.  He told his friend to go ahead and get help.  Praise God, Scott found a log to hold onto.  It turns out Scott was in the water for two hours (not one as we originally thought) and when the paramedics rescued him, only his face was out of the water.

Tim swam half a mile to shore and then, when he first got out of the water, his legs wouldn't hold him, so he started crawling the mile and a half to the ranger station.  Eventually his legs recovered a bit and he was able to walk the rest of the way to the station.  Thank God for Tim and that log Scott held on to!

The ambulance sped Scott to the emergency room. He had hypothermia and they immediately began to warm him up, both inside and out.  Scott was in a lot of pain during the process.  They were very concerned about the water in his lungs, all the nasty lake water he had swallowed, and possible limb and heart damage.  The doctors were amazed at how well his body did.  We know it was God and all the prayers!  In fact, several doctors came to see him just because they had a hard time imagining that he could be in such good shape after his ordeal! Brandie heard several of them talking outside Scott's room and they were saying that upon hearing what Scott had endured, they had prepared for the worst but instead got better than the best! He was in Intensive Care for several hours and then last night about midnight, they decided he was doing so well he could be moved to a regular room!  To their amazement, they found no infection, no heart damage, no limb or digit damage, and this morning, his lungs are almost clear!  In fact, to everyone's great joy, they are getting ready to send him home today!!!!!!  He is very, very, very tired but also very, very, VERY grateful.  He truly thought he was going to die out on the lake.

Thank you, thank you again for all your prayers.