Life occasionally throws unforeseen events our way. A fun-filled day changed into a family’s greatest horror when their daughter was involved in a bizarre tragedy.
Sarah Faulkner, 7, was enjoying a refreshing swim at a Waverly swimming hole. While swimming in Hurricane Creek at Loretta Lynn’s campsite, a youngster jumped from a 30-foot rock and fell squarely on Sarah’s back.
The 7-year-old youngster is now being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. She’s paralyzed from the lower chest down.
According to her father, Tre Faulkner, the girl landed on her back, causing her entire body to freeze as she hit her head at the bottom of the creek. ‘Daddy, my whole body froze, and I couldn’t move my arms, then my arm began moving again, and I swam to the top and started screaming,’ her father recollected what his daughter said to him.
Sarah needed 19 staples in her head, but that was the least of her family’s concerns. Her injury has rendered her paraplegic, which has the entire family concerned.
‘Sir, man to man, just tell me the truth, will she ever be able to walk again?’ he asked and the doctor replied ‘no’. Her father remembered the doctor’s response stating that it’s quite impossible, however there is something out there more powerful than him.
He believes God can and will cure his daughter; he is in desperate need of a miracle. His wife is in desperate need of a miracle. His kids are in desperate need of a miracle. One requires a miracle. The country requires a miracle to demonstrate that God is real and living, Faulkner remarked.
The family is quite devout, and they are relying on their faith at this difficult time for them while their girl recovers from this tragic event.
Sarah has three siblings who, together with her mother and father, are all hoping for a speedy and complete recovery for their sister.
The family expressed appreciation for the large number of individuals praying for Sarah after posting about the event online and creating a GoFundMe page to help with her medical expenses. They say that even atheists have agreed to pray for the baby girl’s birth.
And he himself has never seen so much prayer over one occurrence pouring and flowing in his life. It wasn’t just prayer, but people saying, ‘Lord make her walk again,’ and ‘She will walk again,’ Faulkner said.
The name of the adolescent who fell on Sarah is unknown since she presumably fled amid the chaos, but the family has no ill will against her.
When he asked her what they should do with this girl, his child answered they should forgive. As a result, they prayed for the girl. They can’t even imagine how much pain she’s in right now. And what they want to do as a family is be used by God to exhibit the same sort of love that Jesus did when he hung on the cross for the sake of the world, Tre Faulkner said.
Sarah’s family firmly trusts in the power of prayer and is confident she will be able to walk again. Her dad already has the evidence he requires to make the case that his little girl will truly heal.
Because she had no rectal tone on the first day she arrived at the hospital, which indicates she has no muscle tone there. That is what paraplegics experience. She developed a rectal tone the next day. She wiggled her toes last night, not her toes, but her feet, just barely wiggling them. So they believe that God is curing this girl for his glory and honor, he explained.
They have named the GoFundMe page “Sarah WILL walk again” to demonstrate how strongly they think Sarah will walk again one day.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Faulkner family, particularly Sarah, for a speedy and complete recovery.
