From my friend and ICS community member Chris Byrne:
My 17 year old daughter Grace, a senior honors student in high school who is dual enrolled at the University of Georgia, was running with friends after school last Friday. When crossing the street, she was struck by an SUV. She is now in the intensive care unit of a local hospital being treated for severe brain trauma. Grace is a multi-sport athlete at her school with varsity letters in Tennis and Cross Country, and was the MVP of the Junior Varsity Soccer Team. She turned to tennis as a sport after breaking her foot too many times playing soccer. She has also completed two half-marathons, the most recent in October (the picture of her is after that race). The outpouring of love and concern for her from our community in Athens has been unbelievable because she has touched so many lives and made such a difference in her young life.
Our family firmly believes in the power of prayer and are asking people to pray for our beloved daughter and her sister. Specifically we are asking that people carry a walnut, which represents her head and when people see or touch the walnut to say a little prayer that her head be basked in a healing light. Her friends have started a Twitter hashtag of #Walnuts4Grace
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Thinking deeply about you and Grace, Antoine
Prayers are with her and her family.
It makes you sick that there are meth heads and drug dealers running around out there and something happens to this impressive young women instead of them.
Our prayers are with her and her family. God bless her and hope for soon recovery
I’ve heard that people in comas can respond to voices. We could all record a message for Grace and have them played to her.
Any updates on her condition?