Update

Jaime is doing well and is improving daily. He drank some water Tuesday for the first time since the accident on December 24th. In the past few days, he has progressed into drinking limited amounts of thick liquids(smoothies) and soft foods(mashed potatoes). This is a great improvement and very encouraging. He is completely off the ventilator and is only receiving oxygen through his trach. They are hoping to remove the trach in the near future. This is when he will be able to talk audibly with family and friends.

While Jaime is improving every day, he is still in great need of your prayers. He still has a risk of infection until the grafts heal. He is now facing a whole new set of challenges as he prepares to face this physical and emotional journey. As he improves, he becomes more aware of the pain and anxiety of the situation he is in. Please continue to pray.

16th Surgery

Jaime had his 16th and hopefully final Surgery on Friday. Doctors completed the grafts. Some of them were from his own skin and some from the cultured skin that arrived today. The surgery was several hours long and went very well. There were no complications. Doctors informed the Moser family that if there were no complications, Jaime should be home in about three weeks! Please pray that this will happen. We are all anxiously awaiting this wonderful day!

Steadily Improving

Jaime has been steadily improving over the past few days. Every day he seems to make progress. He is completely off the ventilator now and is breathing on his own with no assistance. He still is not able to speak audibly because of the trach. Doctors are keeping this for a while longer in case it is needed in the future. He is still on dialysis. However, his kidneys are functioning and doctors are using the dialysis as a tool to assist in the healing process. Today, Jaime sat up in bed for about thirty minutes. He had a barium swallow test and did well with it.
He is scheduled for surgeries at the end of the week to work on his grafts. Continue to check the blog daily for updates. Please keep praying for his healing and also for pain and anxiety as he becomes more alert and aware.

Another Surgery

Jaime had another surgery on Friday(his 15th). This surgery was again to prepare for the upcoming grafts. Doctors will be using more of his own skin and well as some cultured skin which will be arriving on the 20th. The surgery was successful and Jaime is resting well. He is more and more alert than ever before. However, with this alertness comes evident pain and anxiety for Jaime. Please pray that God will ease his pain and anxiety.

Natalie, the baby, and the Moser family are doing well. They are hoping(as well as the doctors) that Jaime will be at home when his son decides to arrive some time April. What a miracle his father is - and what a story we have to tell his son about a strong "Dad" and a miracle working God. Please keep praying for successful surgeries and no infection.

The Moser family thanks you for your comments, emails, and phone calls. They are a wonderful encouragement to them. They could not make this journey without them.

Completed Surgery

Jaime had his 14th surgery completed on Thursday. It was a success and there were no complications. He is scheduled for another grafting surgery on or around the 20th. He is more alert than ever before. All of his vital signs look good. Keep checking the blog for more updates. Please continue to pray.

Still No Surgery

Jaime did not have his 14th surgery on Wednesday. It was postponed again today because of the busy schedule of the surgeons. His overall health is good. Please keep praying that Jaime's surgery will have no complications and that he will not get any infection. It is planned to be completed on Thursday.

14th Surgery

Jaime is having 14th surgery Tuesday. This is to repair the previous grafts that did not "take" in first grafting surgery. Also, doctors will prepare the rest of the area still left to be grafted. Please pray that there will be no complications and no infection from this surgery.

Jaime's Update

We have not updated the blog in recent days because there has been no significant changes in Jaime's overall condition. Which, as we all have learned, no news is good news! He is doing wonderful and his overall appearance is great. His oxygen has been reduced to only 27 percent(we breathe 21%). He has been steadily improving over the last few days. Jaime has been much more responsive than ever before. He is carrying on short conversions occasionally by mouthing his words(not audible because of trachea). The Moser family is wonderfully encouraged by this improvement and can see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Jaime's cultured skin that was grown for him will be arriving soon and doctors will be able to perform his final grafting surgeries. Please pray that Jaime will continue to improve and have no complications or infections.

Another Surgery

It has now been six days since Jaime was rushed in for emergency surgery to repair his perforated colon and remove the contents(six liters) from his abdomen. He never did get sick. Many friends and family came to Augusta during this scary situation to be support for the Moser family. We anxiously waited for him to get extremely sick. With the exception of the normal effects of that type of surgery, nothing seemed to change. God simply didn't allow the bacteria to make him sick. We posted on the blog on Thursday that we believed God would have a very different schedule for Jaime. In fact, He did. We witnessed a miracle!

Jaime had his 13th surgery Tuesday night around 8 p.m. Everything was a success. This surgery was the one scheduled before he had the complications on Thursday. He is now prepared for another grafting surgery to come soon.

Please continue to pray for Jaime to continue fighting off infection and for his upcoming surgeries. Also remember to pray for the Moser family as they deal with the stress and exhaustion of this up and down emotional struggle.

Good Day

Jaime had another good day. He survived one more day without getting sick from the perforated colon. There is no doubt God touched Jaime and didn't allow him to get seriously ill as the doctors said he would. It has now been about 109 hours since the surgery. We thank God for his healing hand, mercy, and grace that touched Jaime. One nurse told me that about 8 out of 10 people that this happened to got very sick. And I assume the other two got a little sick as well. The nurse told me that Jaime was her "Miracle Baby" and "That God wasn't finished with him yet."

God willing, Jaime will be able to resume regular scheduled surgeries soon. When Jaime is ready(possibly Tuesday), they will begin to prepare the rest of his body for grafts. Please keep checking the blog for more updates as they become available.

Thank for your prayers. They have kept Jaime once again in His arms. Please continue to pray to fight off infection and success with his surgeries.

No Sickness

As we reported in the last post, the doctors told us to expect that Jaime would become very ill in the next few days due to his perforated colon. It has been approximately 80 hours since this occurred. To this point, he is showing no signs of illness as a result of contents released from the colon into the abdomen. The doctor said that after the first 24 hours, Jaime would become very sick and his condition would be "touch and go" for several days. Well, here we are, several days later, and we have learned once again who the Master Physician truly is. God is healing Jaime on his schedule, not the doctors. He heard our prayers.

1 John 5:14-15

14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

We have realized that there is a purpose to this trial.

II Corinthians 1:3-11

3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
8We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. 9Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.