Jordan Shipley update: Wife of former Texas star shares 'miracle' after surgery, 'crushing news'

by: Daniel Hager 12 hours ago DanielHagerOn3

The wife of former NFL and Texas wide receiver  Jordan Shipley  gave yet another update on her husband’s health Thursday night after he was involved in a ranch accident earlier this week. Sunny Helms Shipley went to Instagram to reveal that his doctor stated that Jordan’s burns looked “far better than anything he was expecting to find after his assessment the day before.”

“Yesterday, after taking a closer and more in-depth look at Jordan’s burns and condition, his burn surgeon very frankly told me that he would mostly likely be getting quite a few skin grafts in multiple spots on his arms, legs and hands,” Shipley said in a statement released on her Instagram story. “Skin grafting adds many more weeks in the hospital, multiple more surgeries, extremely long recovery time and life-long complications.”

“It’s a necessary and life saving measure for many and we knew that, but it was crushing news nonetheless. He went into surgery earlier this morning and the surgeon looked at me and asked if I had gotten any sleep. I smiled and said ‘yes I got a little last night’. He said, ‘Good. You’re gonna need rest because y’all are going to be here for a while’.”

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” I shook my head and said ‘I know’, but a still strong voice inside me said ‘my child, tell him he’s wrong’. So I laid my hands on Jordan and prayed over him in agreement, with his Dad and sister, that they would unwrap his burns and there would be healing to the extent that there would be no other answer but Jesus,” Sunny Shipley continued. “As we were leaving, I asked the surgeon how long he’d be operating on him and he said ‘at least an hour and a 1/2’. I went back up to Jordan’s room and laid down to rest.”

“I wasn’t laying there for more than 20 minutes when the door opens and his surgeon walked in shaking his head, smiling with disbelief. His first words to me were ‘I don’t know what kind of prayers y’all have been doing but I’m done already. I put up all of my sharp tools’. He explained that his burns looked far better than anything he was expecting to find after his assessment the day before. He said he’d never seen anything like it and didn’t know how to explain it. ‘Thank you Jesus’ is all I could keep saying through tears of gratitude.”

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