Welcome to the ICU Survival Kit Ministry

I am so excited to tell you all about my ministry. As I stated in profile I spent 8 week in ICU waiting rooms. WOW the ups and downs emotions are out of control as you sit there hour after hour waiting on good news about your patient, there are all these other families waiting on news of their own, after awhile you become one big family laughing together/ crying together sharing stories of your loved ones. As I look back on that time I never realized such places existed I mean I knew of ICU but had never been there except 5 years before when I got a call about my mom being in the hospital I went to the floor they told me and when I arrived they had moved her to the ICU cardiac unit I went threw the door and someone said ring the bell and they will help you I did and no one answered I remember the room was quiet and I could feel eyes watching me a lady said ring it again they had a emergency so I replied they said they brought my mom here someone spoke up and said just go threw the doors (somehow they knew it must be my mom) I went threw the doors and it was true she was in trouble a machine breathing was breathing for her she looked so fragile as the Chaplin started to pray there was this sound I will never forget and a line across the machine and she was gone. In disbelief and out of body experience I went back threw that waiting room trying to get to the pay phone when I dropped my change all over the floor and some lady I didn't know grab and hugged me so hard as she whispered its okay I'm a preacher just let it go. Its amazing how someone I'd never seen before could comfort me in such a way. Then 5 years later I'm in Grady hospital on a Saturday and we were in a waiting room on another floor (since my friends family came on the weekend so we needed more room) I can remember sitting there and visiting when this family entered the room you could tell it was serious so we tried to be very quiet from what we could gather it was a small child and they had fell it seemed to be the dad and step mom in the room we were in and the mother was down the hall. Seemed the child fell while in the care of the step mom as all the white coats entered the room it was like the breath was knocked out of us all as they told about the child not making it I remember sitting there and the next thing I knew I was on my knees in front of that step mom and I just grabbed her and said its OK let it go. till this day I don't remember walking over to that girl the lord carried me I think he put you where I needed to be because someone was there for me I knew what to do. So a year to the date of my friends accident I called him and said we are going on a ride I picked him up and we went back to the ICU where he was first taken ed he was not to thrilled about going but we went anyway I took some homemade cookies and some magazines I went and spoke to each family and told them that prayers work, here before you is the biggest miracle I know. The look in their eyes as they heard his story was amazing and I knew I was suppose to put together these bags and bring hope and prayers to these people. So I called some friends and went threw my garage and started the bags I called the ICU Survival Kits because they contain a homemade blanket, pillow, toiletry items and magazines ( to take you away for just a moment or two), and finally with lots of prayers. You never know when you may get that call you aren't prepared to be staying there but you won't leave the hospital till you are sure your love one is safe so these bags will help you survive their time there.