04/07/04 - Martha, friend of Terry

David Brown - In Shock Trauma

Please everyone pray for David Brown. Terry just called me and told me she is in shock trauma. David was at a park near his home walking and he was shot 4 times. Once in the face and one in the stomach, not sure where else. He had the presence to drive home to call 911 he knew he would die out there in the park, he collapsed after the call. He was flown to shock trauma, luckily or else they said he would not have made it this far. They are not sure if he will live, they put him in a coma and have operated, they took out his stomach and he might be paralyzed from the waist down if he lives. Please pray for them tonight, God can pull him thru this. I am on my way to shock trauma either I or Terry will let you know what's going on as soon as we can. We do not know why he was shot. Only that this is one of the worse things in Anne Arundel county in some time. Anyway, send your prayers out tonight.

Talk to you later, Martha

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04/08/04 - Terry Brown

David's Prognosis Not Good...

It's about 2:30AM here in MD and I was sent home to try and get some sleep tonight as there is nothing more that they can do for him at this point. I left for work about 2:00PM yesterday afternoon and David was right behind me because he was going to walk some laps on the walking trail in the Provinces Park, about two miles from our house. To make a long story short, he was shot at close range a total of 4 times. Twice in the abdomen, once in the back and in the face. I guess it was the shock from the shooting or free will as I prefer to call it that David drove himself two miles home to our house to call 911.

I really believe that his guardian angels were the ones who drove him home in that car tonight. By the time they flew him to Shock Trauma by helicopter he was taken to the OR in about nine minutes. Rachel and her boyfriend came and picked me up from CVS Pharmacy and drove me to Shock Trauma. He was in the OR from 3:00-8:00PM. One of the bullets severed the vena cava the main blood vessel that runs to your heart. Most of his bowels were removed and a portion of his stomach from the gunshot wounds. He cannot breathe on his own, they have him on a ventilator and he is also intubated.

So far, they have given him about 15 units of blood. He has a lot of internal bleeding that they need to get under control. His blood pressure won't stabilize and that is another concern. They can't stitch him up because of all the bleeding so the doctor left his stomach and the remainder of his bowels out...they are covered and packed with sterile dressings and poor David looks like he is nine months pregnant, with all the packing. They do not want to take him back to the OR again until Friday.

Right now, they have him in a medically induced coma and the doctor told me they will probably keep him that why for a week or two. They also did a full body CT scan tonight after he returned from the OR. There doesn't seem to be any brain damage from the bullet going through his face, but he does have a broken cheek bone and his eye is very bruised and swollen shut on that side of his face.

They are going to move him to an ICU room tonight. His condition remains critical and guarded. As far, as his lower extremities go, they won't know anything until they bring him out of the medically induced coma as to whether there will be any permanent damage to his legs.

Both of my sisters Wanda and Tammy as well as Martha were with me tonight. My one sister is staying with me here at the house. Rachel bless her heart came home and cleaned up all the blood from the outside sidewalk and in the house where he called 911, so I would not have to see this tonight. She was pretty creeped out and didn't want to stay here tonight, so she is going to stay with friends for a few days!

Both Trauma doctors won't give me any type of prognosis...all they say is that he has to make it through the next couple of days and we watch and we wait...I keep thinking that this is some kind of horrible dream and it will all be over in the morning, but it won't!

I'm going to take something to help me sleep tonight and then my sister and I will be going back to Shock Trauma's ICU tomorrow morning. Friday...I'm going to pack a bag of things to do to keep my mind and hands busy while David has his second surgery.

If you want to mail cards to our home, I'm sure that David would appreciate that. I will take them all to the hospital. He will be in the hospital for probably a couple of weeks...we just don't know a lot right now.

I can't bear to think of spending a life without my precious David, so please keep him in your prayers...Terry