AMBER IS TALKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish that i could convey my overwhelming emotion right now through this computer screen, but that is just impossible.... But God has continued to work miracle after miracle with Amber! SHE IS TALKING. Here is my latest email from Christopher!

Talk about doctors being baffled! Amber is talking!...well, more like whispering, but the truth of the matter shouldn't be lost on a technicality!


Here's me yelling in an e-mail:


HHHHAALLLLEEEEELLLLLUUUUJJJJJAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!


I have never heard so many friends whoop and holler over the phone before!


Yesterday the speech therapist held her finger over Amber's tracheotomy opening and started asking her a few questions. To everyone's amazement, Amber responded, with words, and everything was accurate! Here's a partial list of her dialog with the therapist:


"Amber, where is the last place you remember being?"
"Pittsford." (Rochester)


"What year was it?"
"2005."


"Who is in the room?"
"Mommy, Amy, Bubbles (nickname for Aunt Rene)." (And more people when they entered, all correct).


What's this?" (Holding up fruit)
"Banana, orange, etc. (more fruit)."


[Business voice]: Amber will be accepting speaking ministry invitations shortly. (And if we're lucky enough, Jenny and I may be asked to lead worship for her meetings once a year!) ;)


What needs to be stressed here is that the "communication/speech" part of her brain received most of the damage, along with the brain stem. Given the 0% chance of recovery from the coma, if she were ever to wake up and partially recover, this area would "never function again." In other words, she'd never speak. Need I say more?


Staff from St. Mary's Rehab Center in Rochester also visited her yesterday and said that it is still too soon to transfer her, but she would headed their way shortly.


Elation is an understatement...and gratitude as well. Many tears have been flowing among the family and friends since the news made it's rounds yesterday. And we continue to pray and trust God for complete healing. Amber is now out of the ICU and on the 5th floor, completely skipping a "normal stop" on the 6th floor. She is His Miracle. All the glory goes to Jesus, it's clear.


Please rejoice with us! And may your faith be lifted for not only Amber's wellness, but for those who are sick in your own midst. Please stand with us to the end! We covet your prayers. And given the extent that I now realize these little e-mails go to around the world, I could never thank everyone...though I'll be sure to in glory.


And last but not least, the doctors have scheduled another MRI...


...of course.


C.


Christopher Hopper


SO it looks like she will soon be going to a rehabilitation center soon. Continue to pray for her and her family. Our prayers are making a difference!!!

Amber Update

Last week i recieved an update from Christopher and Amber had two more cat-scans done and they looked worse than the original ones. The doctors said they continued to stand beside their report that there was no way that amber would ever recover and ever do anything on her own. As you read in my previous blog about Amber, she was already beginning to show signs of recovering. They were very small steps but steps none-the-less. Yet the doctors still took her off her pain medication because she wouldn't ever feel the pain anyway. Well they were wrong. She is beginning to react to pain and she is even opening her eyes and following people as she moves. This truly is a miracle in the process. I just go a second email from Christopher and this is what it said

A very quick update as Jenny and I just got out of church and are on
our way down to Rochester. On Thursday Amber received a
tracheotomy...and on Friday around 2pm she started to breath on her
own, WELL above the ventilator! PRAISE GOD! This in itself a major
miracle as the doctors said this was simply "impossible." But as our
senior pastor stated this morning (during a sermon on believing ALL
of the Bible which includes the miraculous power of God for healing),
"I won't be content until she sits up and walks out of that place!"

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS! Wow! Please don't stop! This girl and her
family are a testimony to the whole floor at the hospital!

Blessings and much gratitude,

C.

Christopher Hopper


I truly beleive that God is going to do amazing things. My faith level is rising everyday and i am hopeful that Amber WILL recieve her miracle. Thank you for all your prayers and support. Also Amber and her family need a financial miracle. Amber has NO health insurance. The finacial burden that will be on that family is heartbreaking to think about. But i will rest in knowing that my God owns the cattle on a thousand hills and He WILL make a way where there seems to be know way. You can still leave messages on www.ambernesbitt.com. I beleive that she will be able to read them someday.

my be-fri in the b-lo

This is for kelly and anthony...i wish that i saw you more often than i do, but i always enjoy the great times that we do have together!

Here are a few of my favorite memories with kelly and anthony:

Playing card/board games. Even though anthony has yet to finish a game that i play with him because he always QUITS, i still enjoy watching him try and cheat and then get mad when we catch him. Of couse playing with kelly is always fun when she yells at you for making stupid moves and then gloats when she is winning...what a blast...FARKLE!

WATCHING ANTHONY DANCE! For those of you who haven't seen him bust a move, you are MISSING OUT! that boys got moves you've never seen! HA! Just ask denis, he put on a special performace just for him the other day. HILARIOUS! one of the funniest things i have ever layed my eyes on. I just wish i would have seen the dance competion between him and kelly...kelly does take a hip hip class and apparently has taken dance lessons before that too...from what i remember i am not quite sure if that is true...is it kelly...

SHOPPING! it is what we do best, right kelly! We went to old navy the other day and we were waiting by the windows for heather to check out and there was anthony, huffing his hot breath on the window and writing GAP into the little hot breath cloud. SO FUNNY! apparently he is a big GAP fan...not old navy...WOOPS

Anthony has crazy one liners too, like : "why do you hate me, bye" "don't touch the hands, these are the money makers baby" "yeah i am gonna cry and why don't i change my own diaper while i am at it" and one of my favorite stories, "mom, i asked a boy for his phone number today and he said no" kelly: "what grade was he in" Anthony: " i don't know...what grade are you in when you are 14?" (for all of you who don't know, anthony is 7!!!! what a cutie

I would have to say that kelly is one of the funniest people i know, and my funny i mean FREAKING HYSTERICAL! I love her to death and anthony too. did i mention that anthony is kelly's son...well he is. I love you both very much and i can't wait to see you again.

Amber

Some of you may know that recently a good friend of mine was in a terrible car accident. Her name is amber. She is currently in the Burn and Trama unit of Strong Memorial hospital where she has been since November 15th. She has suffered major head trama after hitting a tree with her car the night of the terrible ice storm. I just recently recieved an email from christopher, ambers brother in law, with the latest update, this is what it said:


On Tuesday the 27th, the two top neuro-surgeons in the northeast met
with my wife's parents to tell them that Amber's condition had
deteriorated so much so that they gave here a 0% chance of recovery;
0% of ever coming out of the coma once the narcaotics were lifted,
and if for some reason she were to actually wake up, a 0% chance of
ever regaining any cognitive or physical control of her body. The
damage to the brain stem and cortex was so severe, they termed her
condition a "complete brain disconnect"; not even reflex response
could be recovered (twitching to stimuli, yawning, etc.).

But faith has been SO high in the family, and with over 25 countries
(at least that we know of) praying for her, in addition to all the
words spoken over Amber in the past that have simply no come to pass
in her life yet, we have no choice but to believe for a miracle. The
news actually did something the enemy didn't count on: it increased
our resolve. It took this completely out of the hands of man, of
doctors, a system, and placed the weight solely on Jesus.

Really, nothing has changed in us; we were praying for a miracle
before and we are still praying for a miracle!

They pulled Amber off ALL her drugs, pain killers included, because
she simply "doesn't need them because she can't feel anything
anyway." That's when things started to happen just yesterday...

She started to move her legs and feet and fingers, even squeezing my
mother in law's hands when she asked, "Do you love your mommy?" Her
eyes have been twitching and she's been yawning. Jenny lifted Amber's
eye lid and when Amber saw Jenny, huge tears streamed down her face.

The behavior has obviously befuddled the doctors and, truly, they
have been speechless. They gave her a second CAT scan Thursday night,
and scheduled an MRI for last night. They aren't saying anything to
my folks right now, honestly because they really don't know what's
going on. But we do...at least in part.

We're just taking these things for what they are and trusting the
Lord, trying our best not to "read into" anything and letting God be
Himself. But certainly something is happening and today should be an
even bigger day for Amber. We know that God has already made His
decision concerning her healing 2,000 years ago.

Dozens of visitors continue to flock to the waiting lounge and e-
mails have flooded my computer. Jenny and I took two days back home
just to rest and clear our heads, back to the hospital last night.

You may wish to leave Amber a note on a blog page we created for her:

http://ambernesbitt.blogspot.com/

Blessings!

C.

Christopher Hopper


Please, if you get the chance, leave a message on her blog, even if you don't know her, pray for her recovery. I am believing for a miracle and my faith is increasing everyday. I truly believe that this isn't all the Lord has for Amber. I will continue to keep you all updated with her condition. Please pray for her family as well. it has been an increadably hard holiday for them. Thank you all for your prayers, I know that they will make a difference.