Posted on 01/20/2006 12:09:23 AM PST by Brad’s Gramma
Hi everyone...I received this in a FRmail tonight, and am pinging Logan's Prayer Warriors to a call of prayer.
My father (his name is Dusty) was taken to the Emergency room yesterday afternoon complaining of not being able to breathe. He's been sick for ~ 3 days, but we didn't think too much of it. But when he started falling out of his chair, it was time to go see the doctor. His doctor took one look at him and admitted him to the hospital. (This is ~3:30pm)
Around 8:00, he was admitted to the ICU.
I haven't gotten any information yet, 'cause I couldn't get away from work last night. (Hubby was there for me, tho.)
Now comes the really fun part: He was unemployed at the time, with no health insurance. (But that will be dealt with if he makes it through this.)
Would you make a post and ping others, since I won't be able to do it, and won't be back for some time to write it out either? I'm needing some reinforcements on this one, because it's looking something serious.
You can post my name, and his, with my permission.
Prayers up.
I join in urgent prayer for your father!
Prayers lifted for your father....
Prayer bump!!!!
Yes, thank you for the ping... prayers up.
My prayers are with your father this evening, that the Lord will guide the doctors in diagnosing and treating his condition. If this is something that is beyond the ability of the doctors, I pray the Lord will intercede with his healing touch, so that your father will be made well again.
Prayers
Carolyn
Check into the Hill-Burton Act with your hospital to help with the hospital bill.
It's the end of day 3, and they are beginning to cut back on his O2 levels. He's still on a vent, and still lightly sedated, but when he's alert, he's ornery and irrascible, so I know he's getting to feel better.
The doctors have ruled out CHF, so that is the weight of the world off my shoulders, even thought he's still in the ICU. I should know even more when I head up there today.
My thanks to all for the support and encouragement. Your prayers have uplifted me to do things I didn't think possible, when others have said it wasn't.
Another BTTT!!!
Prayers, Maigrey, for you and your dad, that he is blessed with a team of fine, competent doctors (which sounds the case). If he's been unemployed/uninsured, he might be able to get Medicaid to help with the finances. One way or the other, we pray he and you get thru this.
Thank God..May healing continue.
He was taken off the vent this morning! He's still on O2, but even today, the lowered it from 80% (at Noon) to 70% (at 8:30)
The doctors are going to run another Echo either Monday or Tuesday so see if they can find the weakness in his left ventricle that showed up Thursday. That seems to be the only official problem. Of course, if they try and place him flat, due to the morbidity of his midsection, he can't breathe and has resperatory arrest! So, they won't lay him flat.
His doctor also said that he is a classic case of Pickwickian Syndrome and that the next step is to try and get some of the water retention off of him. Once that happens, that should alleviate most of his problems.
He was in good spirits, and I'm also challenging him to do more and more from each session. He's been getting physical therapy (courtesy of your's truly) 3 times a day! (I'm up there 4 of the 5 times) as well as tactile therapies to alleviate the dryness of skin and maintain his sense of well being.
That is a load of rubbish for he's been getting leg, arm, and face massages and fru-fru ointments to keep him calmed down. I need to invest in Bath and Body Works, so I can recoupe some of the money I've spent in there for these things! LOL
He's not out of the woods yet, but he's still fighting the good fight, and won't quit. That's the reason why I'm trying to move heaven and earth for him.
It's also the reason why I'm allowed up to 30 additional minutes per visit - because I'm helping him fight. I think the nurses respect my efforts.
Anyway, I am once again humbled by the efforts of those here. You guys (and ladies too!) have helped make it possible for me to become the leader I know I can be.
I would also like to thank 2 people - who only occasionally read here - who were there for me this weekend when I truly needed them. A Christian cannot be blessed any more than I have been, having 2 friends who could be with me through the really thick, and the razor thin.
Anne, Nancy, thank you for being you.
He's still on the medications, and he has more cardiac tests tomorrow - Echo and Cath - to see if there is any cardiac damage from the O2 loss. So, I won't think on it until I get the results back on that.
Also, he told me tonight that he can't see out of his right eye, which means that he's had another diabetic hemmorage in it. So, that will be dealt with at some point.
Now if we can just keep him comfortable, and warm, I think things will turn out fine.
My thanks to all for the encouragement and support. You have no idea what it has done for me mentally and emotionally and spiritually.
Well then! I am VERY VERY thankful for each small improvement!!!!!
Sometime, when things settle down for you, explain to me about his eye, will you please?
Logging off now. YOU, Missy, are to retire to your bedroom and fall face down into the bed. ;)
We love ya....
Juggling work and the 'ospital is in of itself a marathon. But, if one of my co-workers did 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week for 6 straight months, I can handle a couple of weeks. (He was Army during the fall of Baghdad.)
Lots of love back at ya! What I need now is a video of Termite dancin'. That would perk... well... anyone.
(((((you)))))
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