Posted on 12/31/2020 9:20:49 AM PST by agere_contra
Dear Friends,
as some of you will know: my twin brother Thomas has been dangerously ill for many days with COVID.
I posted a prayer thread, and you were very generous with your prayers. Thank you!
Well now to this current thread.
Tom has been on an intubator for a week. Today they drained his lungs and discovered lung scarring (fibrosis).
They have taken him off intubation to see if he can breath without it. They put him onto an oxygen pressure mask.
His O2 sats went down. They moved him to a ventilator: his oxygen seemed promising on the ventilator but then started going down again.
His kidneys started failing so they started dialysis. This started improving his oxygen count and kidney count.
The problem now is that his lungs are not doing the normal carbon dioxide processing.
We have discussed his treatments with nurses and they have all been completely routine.
His body does not seem to be responding despite the extra help. They will keep him on them as long as he responds. However his heart could stop at any minute.
He’s currently still alive but it will be hour by hour.
So of your charity - dear FRiends - please pray that Tom will be healed. Please also pray for his immortal soul.
I will pray for you and your brother. The fact that I also have a twin brother gives your situation special significance.
Thank you - I very much appreciate it.
Thank you Tex!
Thank you very much indeed Campion.
Thank you Pete: amen to that!
Thank you very much for your prayers Mom MD.
Thank you petit4: I appreciate it!
Amen to your prayer Stars. Amen.
✠ God the Father, please grant swift healing and a long life to Thomas. ✠
✠ We ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ, True God and True Man. ✠
Thank you both for your beautifully articulated prayers.
Lord I know not agere or his brother Thomas but you do. If it be your will we ask that you heal in the holy name of Jesus and may you bless and be with his loved ones at this difficult time. Amen
Amen
>>Thank you both for your beautifully articulated prayers.<<
I heard a pastor man say one day, “If I stay...it’s a win, If I go to be with the Lord, it’s a win”.
God bless you guyz!
Dear FRiends. I am very sorry to tell you that Thomas died at about 9.47am this morning (UK time).
He died very peacefully in the presence of his family.
We have been very much consoled by your prayers: thank you all for being so generous.
✠ God the Father of Mercy: you have called Thomas to yourself. ✠
✠ Thomas was a good man: responsible, loving, endlessly creative, bringing delight to others. If he was in any way estranged from you, may he be forgiven. If in any way he did not know you, may he know you now with great joy. ✠
✠ May he draw his next breath in the sweetness of heaven. May he greet your beatific vision with great and everlasting joy. ✠
✠ We ask this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ: True God and True Man. ✠
So very sorry
Prayers for you all
Thank you.
I am so sorry for your loss. Rest in the comfort of Christ as only His children can and take hole in the knowledge that you will see your brother again. Our a Lord promises to be near the broken hearted. Lean on Him
Amen to that, Mom MD
So so sorry to read this...prayers sent for your brother...
In prayer for your brother... and you .
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