Update Andrew burn victim.

Please continue to pray for Andrew, I will post part of his mother's letter..

Here are recent photos of Andrew from today. He is getting better. They have him completely weaned off the Dilaudid pain med and now have him only on Methadone, (synthetic morphine.) He is awake in and out. When he realizes that I am there, he starts crying, and raises his arms toward me. Then, he tries to sit up and get out of bed. They do not want him doing that yet because of the feeding tube, and all the heart monitor leads. They think that by this time next week, if he continues to do as well as he has been, they will be able to reduce him on the ventilator to only having the tube in without the line to the machine. This is good news. He desperately tries to talk. His eyes are still messy looking from the recent surgeries on them to help him be able to blink again. He currently cannot close his eyes. In about a week, they will remove thr sutures to see if he can move his eyelids. Please continue to pray that he heals not only in body, but in his soul and spirit. Pray that the Lord has cast out the demons from his mind that made him do this to himself. There is another person here in the Burn ICU who did the same thing to himself because the "voices" told him to purify himself with fire. I have been doing some research for a treatment and therapy home for Andrew to go into after he is well enough to leave the hospital, but there are none that treat his mental illness as well as his physical handicap recovery. But, I did talk to a lady who can guide me into starting one. She had a phone call from someone else's mom whose son did the same thing. It is a spirit of suicide by fire that we need the Lord to cast out of these people who are dual diagnosed with schizo-affective, bipolar illness, like Andrew. Pray that the Lord will help me make the right decisions as to taking care of Andrew in the future.