thought s and prayers to you and your family Dave
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thought s and prayers to you and your family Dave
Dave, my thoughts have been with you and yours ever since I read this a couple of days ago. I see this crap all the time around here. Things will get better now, especially since grandpa knows! I feels so bad for little ones now days. I thought my generation was bad with kids.....its getting much worse with each new generation as a whole.
Wow! real sorry to hear of this horrible mess Dave! you know you always have my prayers buddy! If i was closer id be more than willing to help out anyway i could.
Just logged in and read this. You and your grand daughters have my prayers as well. People who abuse children are the lowest of the low in my opinion and I have no sympathy for them. I hope Lexie continues to improve physically and that the emotional damage is not too great. Mostly I hope that the Child Protective Service gets them away from those "parents" and into the hands of someone who will give them the love and protection they deserve.
dave the prayers are there for you and yours. I wish kids everywhere could just be kids for a while before they have to find out what a world this can be.
Lexi is continuing to improve! She's out of ICU and into Pediatrics, more excellent Doctors and Nurses taking care of her,,,and the rest of us, too.!!!!
DSS brought her sister up for awhile this afternoon, the two of them were very happy to see each other. Alisha is about a year older, and very concerned about her baby sister!!!! Already easy to tell that along with the physical issues, both girls are going to require a lot of help dealing with the mental and emotional issues!!!!!
We have a meeting tomorrow afternoon with DSS to talk over things about the girls and the status of their case....Hopefully we can get more answers then.
The one thing I have been thinking about over and over again is why these people who abuse and neglect children are even allowed to exist on the planet and breathe our air???? People keep assuring me that they'll get their just rewards......
Keep the prayers coming, I can see them working everyday!!!!!!
Fantastic news on Lexi's progress, Dave! Brought tears to my eyes reading your post, and I'm not in the least ashamed to say that! You are in our thoughts and prayers daily, and our hope is that both girls are able to have a safe, loving atmosphere for their continued growth, whoever is their primary caregiver. As you've said, one person may have abused, but the other may have allowed that abuse and both are then unworthy of being in a parental position. Godspeed as you work the system.
that is great news dave.
Fantastic, Dave !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):) I was hoping we would get more good news from you today. I sure hope the agencies that govern this stuff make the right decisions for you and those two beautiful little girls.
Thanks for keeping us updated, and please do so again tomorrow...........we care.
Don
Great to hear things are going in the right direction now. Knowing Grandpa is in the mix, I'm sure the situation will continue on the right path. We'll continue the prayers Dave.
Great news Dave and Keep hanging in there.
Great News Dave - Like others, I sit here with a lump in my throat and wish I could be close enough to buy you lunch, sip a coffee or just sit with you as a friend. Ya gotta know that the members here are praying for you and your precious family. I shared this thread with my wife last evening as we were unwinding a bit watching TV and her response was like all here, "Why do people hurt these little ones?" and "I sure hope the responsible parties are held very, very accountable for a very, very long time."
We'll keep praying - for Lexi - that the recovery is complete in body and mind. And for you Dave - remember Winston Churchill's words, "If you're going through hell, keep going!"
Hang in there Dave!
Glenn
Just keep a cool head. If you were to end up in jail, it would just increase your family's pain even more.
My mom used to tell me... "You don't have to be the one to 'get somebody'... because they will eventually get themselves". }:-) I have found that to be oh so true!
Great news, Dave.
We'll all keep the long distance support going as long as needed
I will continue to support her and her sisters recovery.That is great news.
I am just another member here.No one special for sure and not on staff here.I feel the need to post this anyways and surely not to step on this very important thread in anyway.
All of you guys are special to care this much about one of this forum's members.For the lack of word to express myself,you all should take a bow and be very proud of yourself's for the very apparent huge hearts you all have.
That is good news, Dave.
Good morning Dave. I've tried looking Alexus up through the Iowa hospital and could not find anything there. I hope that everything is improving. It's very sad when things get like this. Our prayers are still being sent up. I only live 50 miles from you and do hope that we meet some day. Terry from Brandon.
Dave it's great news about your grand daughter. Kids are so resilient and bounce back from bad things so quickly. I'm sure they will need emotional help in the future to deal with what has happened to them. My hope is they are able to work through it together, and be stronger because of it.
Keith
Dave
sorry to hear this but also glad to hear that you are taking charge--
just a hint to get the dark thoughts about the parents outta your mind until after the meetings with the athorities--remember they want to mend parent/child relations
afterwards---well you might take the asshole on a hunting trip with you and the former vice president!!!!!!!
Dave, Glad to hear the good news. Young kids usually come around faster than the older children. I had someone real close to me abused from the age of 3 thru 12 and you would never know it talking to her at the age of 58. Prayers are with you. Bart
Lexi is continuing to improve, had some play time with her sister Alisha again today and that went very well. Then she took a nap--and woke up crying...nothing wrong the nurse could find, guess 19 Month old kids can have bad dreams, too. Lord knows she's been through a hell that would give anyone nightmares.
Spoke with a lady (very fine, hard working lady) From Iowa DSS today, she is doing everything she possibly can to get both Alisha and Lexi relesed to me and Grandma by Friday---hopefully to return to S. Dakota if Lexi is released from the hospital by then, where the custody papers to be filed with the court are already prepped and on my attorney's desk waiting for a signature. One more big meeting on Friday to find out if everything is a go to take both girls home!!!!!
Maybe just a couple more days of prayer, gang, and this part of the girl's ordeal will be over and we can began the long process of healing!!!! Every day here I see the power of prayer from all our wonderful friends working!!! Thanks, and please keep it going just a couple more days!!!!!
Will do Dave.
for as long as you need them dave.
You continue to have them buddy.
That's really good news, Dave. Life has a way of handing us things we never saw coming, but in the end it all works out somehow. These little girls will now get the life they should have had all along. :)
Don
I pray they are young enough you can erase all their bad memories and replace with happy ones!
Great news, Dave! We will be eagerly awaiting confirmation that the girls get to head home with you, and that the custody issues work out for the best. Hope all goes well for a Friday road trip!
Great to hear, Dave. Good luck as you work your way through this next step-
Will keep it up,and Lynda has got the prayer group going,too..All good news Dave,,and we hope the girls will have a new HAPPY home with you..Great stuff..:cool::cool:
Still praying hard for Y'all, Dave, and it sure does appear that "the Good Lord" has taken Alisha and Lexi in his loving arms and will place them in a loving environment with their Grandparents. Think I'll put the Social Worker on my prayer list, as well. God Bless Y'all, meller
I'm glad to get that news today Dave, because Jane and I are leaving home this afternoon and will be out of the country for about three weeks. Since we'll be pretty much incommunicado I was hoping for some good news today ........ AND WE GOT SOME!
We'll be thinking about you and your family, so hug the girls for me.
Jim
Nothing new posted on other link...Hope everything gos well. I (we) have 13 grandkids and sure don't want anything like this going on...Stick to your guns Dave get those kids home with you.
I still have you covered Dave.
Dave i must of missed this somehow, only just seen it so i hope my prayers for the little girls still count, Thinking of you mate.
Prayers are coming from here also. Hate to hear about anything bad happening to the little people. As a parent of 7 kids you can imagine my feelings for" mom" and her boyfriend! Hope everything goes well......cr
Hi Dave and Family,just read all 5 pages is my computer got taken over by the Devil last sunday and just got it back from the repair shop late yesterday,so am doing some catching up with my reading.
I know I'm a week late but you and your grandchildren will be included in my dailey prayers as of now and I'm so glad that she is recoverying so quickly.
It is times like this that reinforces to me how everybody here is so excellent and caring for one another.
We're home!!!! Lexi and Lisha are in their beds and sleeping soundly, both are doing quite well, all things considered.....
First, thank you all for your prayers over the last week!!! If anyone ever thinks that the power of prayer doesn't work, tell them to talk to me about it!!! We've got two miracles right here in the house!!!!
We got home about an hour ago, the trip home went very well other then one huge downpour going north on I-35 just before the Iowa-Minnesota line! But anyway, we made it!!! We had a "fun stop" or two along the way, both girls are eating very well now and we're working hard to get their nutrition levels back up where they belong.... More on that some other time though, the good news is they are out of that hell and surrounded by people who love them!!!!
BTW--huge cookout at Dave's house Sunday to welcome them home, stop by if you're in the "hood"!!!! More later, got lots of people to get hold of and tell them we made it.
That is great news Dave.Now that you have gotten this far,I'll shift gears and start a prayer for the girls and you be able to get threw the legal process.
Also Dave I would think you have been threw hell and back yourself.Take sometime for yourself.Take care of yourself Dave.
Oh-I know the 57 has been the last thing on your mind.Just a suggestion you seriously consider a redesign for rear back seats now.;):)
Hi there, this is Lamin8r's wife Lynda. First off, we're sitting here at home in front of this computer with huge wide grins of happiness that you got your little girls home with you. Our church, a little Baptist church in New Plymouth has been praying for this whole thing for a few days now, and we're just praising God that He answers prayer so completely. We're going to go to church tomorrow morning and tell them. Will continue to keep praying until the i's are dotted and the t's crossed, and they are back to full, happy, health. And you both can look forward to raising the next generation. A labour of love, huh?
Thank you Lynda, and thank everyone at your church, too!!!! It has been a labor of love, and worth every minute of it! The real healing can began now.Quote:
Originally Posted by lamin8r
We had a lot of "moments" during the last week, but a couple last night when we had both girls safely with us at a motel in Iowa City really brought up evidence of what condition and how much healing time it's going to take.... Lisha, the older girl, was sitting on Grandma's lap last night and asked Grandma if she had food in her house. Grandma assured her she had food, the Lisha asked what Grandma was going to do when the food was gone and Grandma of course told her she'd go to the store and get more.....Then Lisha asked if this meant here and "Sissy" would get to eat every day!!!!! Kind of a real eye opener on just how tough these two little angels have had things when they're not even sure there is going to be food for them to eat....and on the way home one of our stops was at McDonalds (of course) for some lunch. Lisha sat across the table from Lexie when we were eating and her first question was if all this food (Cheeseburger, fries, and milk) was just for her....and could she eat it all now or did she have to save some of it for tomorrow!!!! A child not yet 3 years old should never have to worry about when their next meal is coming!!!!