This is my book and my head is swimming... <br /><br /><br /><br />PARTS:<br />PART I - (1ST Chapter through whatever chapter ends up prior to (Keep Searching for Blue Jays - PART II). Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future."<br /><br />PART II  (KEEP SEARCHING FOR BLUE JAYS) Isaiah 7:11 "Ask the Lord your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or the highest heights."<br /><br /><strong>Only two chapters in this submission are not trial transcripts:</strong> KEEP SEARCHING FOR BLUE JAYS, SEVEN DAYS (previously 8 day). KSFBJ is the crown jewel of the book. Getting all the emotions I was feeling is near impossible. What I feel is missing?, is I still had no answers as to who shot Bryan and why and this is something I wrestled with over those 3-1/2 very long days. Additionally, I thought about the times I scolded him for eating ALL the lunchmeat, cookies, or whatever else and not leaving anything for the other boys or his parents. I was wracked with guilt - much the same as a parent who HAS lost a child and won't have the opportunity to say they love them and right their wrongs with them. <br /><br />SEVEN DAYS - This chapter falls short of the rest of the book. Bryan was having so many radiology studies, interventional radiology studies, doctors, respiratory therapists, detectives, phone calls, visitors (He was still under an alias for his safety in case the shooter would come to finish the job), we still had no answers as to who or why but I was blissful in that He was alive and I would hear his voice and tell him I loved him and he loved me too. A nurse (this is in another part of the book - Jackie - told me she worked trauma 20 years and she knew when people in masses were praying for patients and Bryan was definitely being prayed for. <br /><br />Also not in this chapter that should be - Bryan was walking albet 30-50 feet initially up and down the hall once they put him in the normal room on day 5 - it was astounding to say the least. He couldn't burp either and that was really important to him for burping contests with his brother. It took almost 4 months for him to be able to burp again. <br /><br />Bryan was so tall at 14, the hospital had to bring extenders in and put on his beds. When they took him back and forth to procedures, his legs hung off the stretchers and it was hard to get the elevator doors closed. <br /><br />---<br />TRIAL TRANSCRIPT SECTIONS: It is hard to put the entire trial transcript (the entire document I have transcribed - but it isn't all finished down but I don't want to bore readers with minuscia or with stammering or stuttering or misspoken statements unless it lends credibility or conveys emotion - (Bryan's testimony). Many parts overlap and some is repetitive. <br />I believe I prefer the police officer's testimony of the greenbelt area and how he ties the crimes together more so than Peter Reid's - you will probably better know how to handle that.<br /><br /><strong>I may not know this until I have it all back but (I think I need to just put this out of my mind for now - it will come out perfect - I know it!)</strong><br /><br />I am undecided on whether to split the officer's testimony off of the NEAR MISS trial transcript and put it immediately following premonitions or GUN chapter or leave NEAR MISS chapter alone and use VOIR DIRE (just submitted) trial transcript immediately following PREMONITIONS chapter.<br /><br />GUN - I am wrestling with transcribing the firearm expert witness testimony and placing it after this chapter.<br /><br />I can then move "HUNTER'S LOG (TT - just subitted - although most of my premonitions are realized in this TT portion) further down in the lineup - say before or after (wherever the flow is best) 3-1/2 days which may make more sense (if that is the case - the COINCIDENCES (TT) can be combined and condensed because the Hunter's log is found as a direct result of the runaway telling about the car burglaries and the stolen gun...<br /><br />I have a headache and pray this isn't so confusion you can't understand. Let me know.<br /><br />I will get busy on the other transcript parts and then I am DONE...<br /><br />Most sincerely,<br /><br />Barbara