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“Jordan’ s Story”A story of traumatic brain injury………….

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can happen to ANYONE , at ANYTIME………. Life can change in an instant……

Your l i fe, your chi ld’s l i fe, your grandchi ldren’s, your s is ter, your brother’s, aunts, uncle’s, fr iends, your parents, or your grandparents…. l ives can change in an instant……

JORDAN’S LIFE……

Facts about Traumatic Brain Injury…….

TBI is the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults

Seven times more people experience TBI than AIDS, HIV, or CANCER combined

Leading causes of TBI is falls, motor vehicle accidents, and violence

57,000 Georgians suffer from TBI’s every year, with over 3,000 resulting in permanent disability

Jordan 18 years old, high school senior, college bound, life is just beginning……

Jordan’s Life…..

April 16, 2010

The almost fatal accident ….. Jordan’s vehicle is struck ,while on the way to work, when the driver runs the stop sign, at a high rate of speed. The accident happens on the day of her senior prom…..

EMS give her no chance of surviving the ambulance ride, she was thrown into the passenger’s side, Jordan was not wearing a seat belt……..at the time of impact……

Jordan arrives in Trauma Center….an Emergency craniotomy is performed, surgeons remove a part of her skull to reduce swelling, coma is induced to control bleeding in the brain…..

Jordan emerges from her coma ….2 months later…………… the family begins to pray for a miracle… doctors tell her mom to find a nursing home for her 18 year old daughter…………….

Jordan’s Mom goes to hospital chapel. On her hands and knees she prays to God….

“Lord, please send me a sign, a sign I can see with my own eyes…..”

Jordan’s Journal……..Her teacher brings me her English Lit. Journal , she

wrote 30 days prior to accident……“ God will send a sign. The sign will be a

RAINBOW….”

The Stranger……..

There are ANGELS among us…..

While in a drug store, Melissa (Jordan’s mom ) is approached by a stranger….a black male, with blue eyes, wearing a red t-shirt, and a beautiful gold cross….

The stranger tells her….

“God told me you will see a rainbow. Can I pray for your daughter?”

He had no knowledge of her journal…….

Rehab begins…Jordan has to learn how to walk, talk, feed herself, bathe herself, etc…..

Jordan’s Skull is replaced 6 months later……………the journey continues….

Jordan’s Mom gets her sign…..

GOD is still in the miracle making business….my daughter is living proof…( look at the clouds…..an eye from heaven??)

Jordan continues to recover….. She gets better each and everyday…. Thanks to God and your many prayers…….

I owe my child’s life to God and his Angels. Love, Faith, Hope & Prayer…got our family through this ordeal…. Jordan has no recollection of her hospital stay or the accident

Many, many, many thanks to friends, family, and strangers who prayed for Jordan and our family…..we never could have made it without you.

I want each and everyone who watches this …to know that no matter what problems you may have, no matter what you are going through, ..there is no problem to BIG or SMALL that GOD can’t handle…..you simply have to BELIEVE……….

Melissa Oliphant…

I sincerely …… Thank you ALL from the bottom of my heart…..(Jordan’s Mom)

Special thanks to Burke County EMS, Shock Trauma ICU at Medical College or Georgia, Atlanta Children’s Hospital at Scottish Rite, to all the Doctors, Many Nurses, CNAs, and Rehab Therapists who aided in Jordan’s recovery….and who are stilling helping today……