Prayer for Peyton in Car Accident, in coma

My wife's cousin Peyton was driving home with his youth pastor when this car accident happend. Please lift him up in prayer.

Any prayers, words of encouragement, scripture will be shared with our cousin.

Thanks. Doug

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Peyton Carter was in a car crash on Friday November 5, 2010. He was a passenger in a car driving home from a friends house. The driver swerved and lost control of his car. He swerved into a brick wall, hitting on Peyton's side. Off of Yorktown and Magnolia in Huntington Beach. There were no drugs or alcohol involved. He immedietly went unconscious after the impact and is now in a coma. Please pray for Peyton. Pray for his family also that they would have peace. Thanks so much.

Peyton’s facebook pages:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pray-for-Peyton/127695207289365?ref=ts&v=wall

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pray-for-Peyton/116354438427970?ref=ts&v=wall

Payton is 14 years old. Thanks for your prayers. I will keep you updated. He is heavily sedated right now until the pressure in his brain and bleeding is reduced. The doctors are carefully watching him neurologically to see how he responds.

Doug

May God who holds this Universe in His Hands, minister
Healing to Peyton, and be with all the Family.
He is able to bring him out of the Coma, because my Mother was in a Coma for 5 weeks, and God brought her forth stronger than she was before.
He is a Wonderful God, and He is concerned about all your needs.
God Bless.

This is so sad. I am and will continue to pray as well with all for this young boy. Be glorified here Lord, be glorified. Amen!

Doug,

Are there any updates on Peyton's status or additional specific prayer needs?

We will continue to keep him in prayer.

God be with you!
Brian

Here is an update on Peyton from an email:

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It's Friday nite at 7:00. Fever went down from 103-ish to 101-ish, but added that when the nurse touched Peyton's finger in a certain way, two other fingers responded with movement (over and over).

When the nurse showed the Dr., he touched Peyton's neck, feet and another spot I forgot (neck? arm?) and Peyton responded each time with obvious motions. Dr. said "He's doing good" and then asked "He's been here for 2 weeks, right?" Nurse replied "one week".

Tomorrow they may possibly remove the ventilator.

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so he is slowly improving. Thank you all for praying for Peyton.

Doug

Updates on Peyton an hour ago:

Precious news from today: Peyton's Mom was reading him letters from the 1st few days and he smiled several times and then laughed at one of them! No words yet, but when he is awake he is curious and tries to help. He even sucked some water off a sponge stick and swallowed! Praise God! We are in the midst of a miracle!!! Pray For Peyton...

My wife and I are continuing in prayer!

I am realy sorry to hear about this. I will pray that Peyton Carter will be healed and recover quickly. I will also pray for his family that the Holy spirit will come and comfort them during this trying time.

The Lord told me to share my testimony with you and peytons family.

Feb. 20th 2004, I was driving home from work when suddenly an electric truck was turning onto a gravel road and pulled out in front of me. I was driving 60 miles an hour when we impacted.

I would like the family to know that not many things went through my mind. it seemed like I was watching the accident in still frames. everything was in slow motion.

During the impact I heard everything. the crunching of the metal, glass breaking. I felt nothing until I came to.

I do know that the Lord was with me. I e ven felt a hand on my shoulder. I believe was an Angel of the Lord.

I was heliported to the Hospital 100 miles away. I had a ruptured bowl, five broken ribs, I almost lost my left eyelid. I was on a resperator for 3 days awake.

Anyway, I would like you to know that he wasn't in pain during the accident.

Has he came out of the coma yet?

My prayers are with you.

Thank you for your continued prayers for Peyton. Here is an update.

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Great news from Peyton's room - again! The whole family are so very grateful to our loving heavenly father and all you faithful pray-ers! Peyton is going thru a long string of evaluations from the occupational therapist, physical therapist, neuro specialists, speech and language team, etc, etc. They will be making a rehab recommendation in the next few days. In the meantime, Peyton can kick the ball from his bed with either foot; he can hold himself in sitting position though his head is a bit too heavy to keep upright at the moment; they even stood him up today which he could manage with a little support! His first step in eating was to accept some ice chips in his mouth and swallow when told. Best of all he started smiling yesterday! Not only that but he gave a little laugh which is one of his first distinct sounds he has made so far!!! We can only imagine how his family must have felt to hear that! As his body is still shedding some of the medication little signs of 'Peyton' are returning! yea god! Like today while he was playing ball with Ellie he couldn't resist stashing it away mid-game only to bring it back out when she chided him for teasing! He is officially out of his coma and only has a nasal feed tube. Each day will be a workout for him as his body wants to sleep and rest ALOT. May God continue to fire more and more of those brain waves as his muscles and nerves wake up!! Mom says "Thank you for your faithfulness!"

For those who were lifting my Peyton in prayer here is a great update.

He is still not talking but making many improvements. Thank you for your continued prayers.

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The doctors are putting their stamp of approval on Peyton's incredible rehab journey. He is doing so well so rapidly that he will bypass the inpatient portion of his rehab at Healthbridge! They are going to discharge him tomorrow to go home! He will do an assessment at Healthbridge on his way home and get set up with a full outpatient rehab program five days a week. The hope is that he will continue to heal even faster at home with his comfortable and familiar setting not to mention regular daily life with little sister and dog.

We can pray for his safety in the freer environment and continued healing of all his brain/nerve pathways!!
Yea God! All the glory to Him!

I know many of you have prayed for Peyton, he is improving but has a long road ahead. He is speaking, walking, and active, and is physical therapy.

Today he has surgery at 11:30 AM (PST) to replace a piece of skull in his brain. Praise God the swelling is down so they can close up his skull cavity. Pray for him that his surgery is successful and it goes well.

Thanks.
Doug

I do not know who u are or who peyton is, but I will offer my feeble and broken prayers b4 our lord on your behalf.

May the grace of almighty God comfort u and peyton.

I am a nurse, so I will say that the swelling is one of the biggest issues that needs to normalize and it sounds as though it has.

Precious Father, who r we? what r we? how can we function in an adequate manner, in a manner of example and holiness unless you touch us, please my lord, bless this family and peyton as you have already, and may u do something wonderfully drastic on his behalf and the family's behalf.

I pray this in your name jesus. Amen.

Thank you for the update. I had prayed for him way in the beginning and then never heard anything. He is one of several young people I know in the same situation - SO HARD! I will be praying for a successful surgery! Please keep us updated. Is Peyton (and his family) a believer?