Your prayers needed...

I have a prayer request for everyone. My sister was thrown (really she jumped) from a horse on Wednesday and the tips of the vertebrae in her lower back are broken off, also her right lung partially collapsed and her right shoulder and hip where she took the most impact are badly bruised. The doctors have managed to mostly open up the lung again with breathing exercises, but it is going to take a while for the vertebrae tips to fuse back together with the main section. Right now her muscles spasm any time she tries to use them because the have nothing to pull against like they normally do (think telephone cables snapping and snaking all over the place ~ probably a bit more dramatic than what actually happens, but you get the picture). Yesterday was not a good day for her because she had a headache most of the day and the medicine they were giving her upset her stomach, so she couldn't keep anything down. It is very hard to throw up when your back muscles are not connected as they should be. Anyway, at shift change a nurse came in and gave her iv morphine. That knocked her right out and relieved her headache for a while. The hospital is planning on sending her home tomorrow or Sunday depending on how well she is progressing. Right now she needs help to get up and move around, so my Mom is hoping that they will keep her until Sunday to give her that much more supervised recovery time. Once my Mom leaves on Tuesday it's just gonna be Gram helping her out and she's probably not strong enough anymore to do much heavy lifting. I ask your specific prayers for God to align those vertebrae quickly and to fuse them back together as new. And that He would completely open up her lung so that no pneumonia sets in (or any other lung problem). The doctor said that she could go back to work in about 2 weeks, but only on light duty (answering phones, etc.). She will probably need extensive PT to get her muscles functioning properly again.
Thanks for praying. The effective prayers of the righteous availeth much (i.e. God listens when His people pray AND He answers their prayers!!!).
Eryn