Jenny's Story

Jenny is a mother of three grown - up children, and has been in a wheelchair for most of her life due to serious disabilty in her legs, she is unable to stand or walk.

Always happy and ready to help others, she was cooking at home from her wheelchair when she had an horrific accident with boiling water. She dropped a pan and the boiling water scalded her lap and legs terribly as she was unable to move away from it. She had to have a series of painful skin grafts on her thighs and has suffered badly since the accident happened this summer.

However, this was just the beginning of the story. Naturally she was sitting down in her wheelchair when it happened. This meant that the boiling water not only damaged her legs, but underneath where she was sitting. Because she cannot stand up and rest the underneath area, the wound underneath got worse and worse, despite stays in hospital. Now the wound has turned into a large hole which will not heal. The hospital have now decided that as well as skin grafts, she will now have to have flesh grafts from somewhere on her body to try and fill this hole. It is agonising for her because she has to sit on it all day, she can do no other. She has to go back in hospital soon and has been told that after the flesh graft (which sounds horrendous) she will have to lie on her stomach and stay there for two months in that position to enable the wound to heal. Bearing in mind that she is seriously disabled anyway, she will have major problems lying on her stomach as well as everything else.

Her name is Jenny and she lives in Middlesborough in Teesside. Can I ask for prayers and healing for her. After years of struggling with her disability, she just does not deserve all this agony she is going through. When we consider the problems that some people have, it brings it home to us just how lucky we are and it certainly makes me think twice about my small everyday moans and groans.

Thank you for listening

Angela xxx