Hello Everyone, This is Lois, and I would like to request prayer for my cousin and her husband. Marcus and Maryann Kauffman have been married for 15 months and are expecting a baby in February. They live in Cleveland NC. On December 2nd around 10 a.m. they arrived home from visiting Maryann's parents in GA to find their home being burglarized. Marcus was shot in the back of the head by one of the burglars. The bullet lodged behind his right eye. They did surgery and removed it and he began to improve, though he was still in critical condition. They had got the swelling down some on his brain and the pressure was improved. The doctors were going to start letting him come out of his sedation today. But on Tuesday he had a number of strokes and his brain pressure shot up, and he developed pneumonia. The doctor met with the family last night and told them there is nothing more they can do, and it may be time to let go. Please pray for Marcus, but especially for Maryann. She needs all the strength and grace she can get. They are trying to decide when to take him off life support. This seems to be a complete nightmarish disaster, but God is in this. We don't understand, but still God is in control. Maryann is only 20 years old and Marcus was such a promising young man. Yet God chose them to through this. Please help us pray!! Lois Troyer ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]