North Carolina Recap

State: North Carolina, East Coast USA

Dates: 5/2/23-5/19/23

Team: Scott Family (Jamie, Vicky, Mark, Tierney, Finleigh, Graelyn, Westyn, Kevin, Sarah, Piper, Harrison, Amy – Honorable mention: extended family and friends)

Local Currency: USD (1USD = 1USD)



Favorite Local Food: Chick-fil-a



Local Language: English

Common Phrases: Hello, Thank you, Ya’ll

Location: Charlotte, NC

What was difficult? Watching my dad on life support machines, it’s a helpless feeling, but boy does it make your only option to lean on God.

What am I thankful for? Community! A community around me that supports in powerful ways. We had phone calls, food, visits, TONS of prayers, and even monetary support to get me home and back onto the field!

What did I learn about myself? That I carry too many expectations of myself and others. Sometimes I get a picture in my head of what things will look like (for example: a home coming after 9months of being gone) and often times reality doesn’t live up to the picture which leads to unnecessary disappointment. So I have learned to hold even more loosely to how I think things “should” go and to have grace upon grace for myself and others in my life. (And also that I still love dogs and warm chocolate chip cookies and my littles more than anything in this world)

What did I learn about God? He is good. And I don’t just say that because we had a favorable outcome. Even if my dad had not made it, I would still proudly proclaim that God is good, it would just be through grief. But our God heard prayers and moved mightily. He orchestrated the wildest story of my dad being on 100% life support running his vital organs (heart & lungs) to walking out of the hospital within ONE week.

Funniest Moment? My dad’s last night in ICU mom and I stayed with him in the room and my dad was so excited about PT coming in the morning and the possibility to get up and get out soon that he did not sleep well. So in middle of the night with delirium and coming off sedation medicine setting in, Dad tried his hardest to convince us that the walls and ceiling were covered in ice.

Favorite Memory? Just getting to hug both my parents and all my littles. It had been so long and it was so sweet!

I didn’t plan to see home in month 9, but boy did God use that to grow me and give me perspective.