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him amongst others. but the stress of the situation… it is just so hard.

there is enough of a chance that my dad may die, that the doctor said to`be prepaired

verge wrote:
I’m sorry about your troubles and hope your father gets well soon. You bring such care and positivity to other people’s posts that you should certainly be receiving some of that back, so try and stay positive, I’m wishing you good things. May everything turn out just fine.

Crystalizeforlife wrote:
What can you do to get the extreme stress out? I have a few methods that help me: music, soup, movies,conversation, shopping, sedatives.

Thank you both…
recently help.com has been my stress release. but I just feel so useless. All I can do is wait, and pray…

I have, my grandparents, in-laws, and a few others had come together for a prayer group. But we`ve all gone home for the night, so I`m here.

I do believe in miracles, though Mexico is a little far. :) We live in Ontario Canada. But we have anointed him, and dribled holy water in his mouth.

I live in Exeter, my dad is in London, at the University Hospital

be a gal wrote:
I have a colleague whose husband is an Anglican priest and he does his sermons in London but I don’t know which church. You might know him: James McNamara.

I`m afraid I don`t know him, I`ve never been to the Anglican church(s) in London.

Dear Heavenly Father, please send your healing power, let it flow through my father Ed. Please Lord remove the evil spirit causing his ailments. Bring my father back to the realm of the waking, and allow him to recover. In your name we pray. Amen.

Yes he is proud… but it is still hard. The worst is when my mom and I were getting the news from the Dr. I could see my mom on the verge of tears, and with the bad news, it was all I could do not to break down. Then when calling my brother, and other family members… I did break down.
It is times like this when it is hard to follow what I preach. (Trust in God)

Thank you… I`m staying with my mom, I don`t want her to be alone. That and my grandparents live over an hour away.

We just got some good (well better than what we have been getting) news. My dad woke up enough that he had to be sedated… He was fighting the ventilator. This is the first time he has responded to anyone anything in the last 36 hours.

Thank you all. Please if you would keep praying. I need to get some sleep though, I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to be another long day.

Thank you all for your support and prayers. As of 10:00am EST there is no change in my fathers condition. Still stable, and on a large amount of life support. (less than when he got to the hospital though)
He had a CT scan last night, and the doctor should be reviewing that today, and we should have a bit more info. Again thank you all.

latest report is that this may be caused by all of the meds that he is on reacting. So they are sending for some special blood work, and by the middle of next week we are hoping to have the results back… (I hope they are back before then) But please do continue to pray. I’ll keep all posted as I hear about it.

At this time, my father is stable. they took him off sedation a few times, and got some reponce! he is now able to maintain his own blood pressure without the aid of drugs, and he’s on partial respirator. all in all better than yesterday.
I thank all of you for your prayers and ask that you continue.

I feel so drained; emotionally and physically. All I’ve done is sit at the hospital praying, and waiting to hear from the doctors. We sit in the waiting room for hours just to be able to spend a few minutes at his bedside.

Thank you all prayers help. :)

Latest word is slightly better. Though my dad is now on dialisis, he has improved slightly, but we’re still waiting for test results.

We got word of a few things today. First my dad’s kidneys have shut down completely. we’re all hoping that they will start working again soon. the doctors say that they may start in a few days, weeks, Months, or never. And my dad has an infection in his chest.
They took my dad off the sedation today, but had some bad results, so they had to put him back on.
But we’re supposed to get some results back, and their going to do some more tests tomorrow. Hopefully they will yeild results.
Though the Doctor says that it will likely get worse before it gets better. sigh.

Well at this point, my Dad has been in a coma for aprox. 1week 2days and 8hours.
All with almost no real change since he was stabalized.
We got the results back from his third CT scan today, and there is still no change. The doctors still don’t know what is causing my Dad to be like this.

thank you

My Dad is out of the Coma! He had his eyes open today, and was able to nod slightly, and squeeze my hand. Though he is still in bad shape. The Doctors still don’t know what started all this, and as such what is keeping him like this. He’s still on the ventilator, dialysis, and a number of other life support equipment…
But some good news… we’ll take it.

griffin195 wrote:
but like my Pastor says there’s no atheist in fox holes :)

lmao That is so true :D

And thank you I will.

Over last night my Dad was relabelled into Critical condition. He had internal bleeding in his stomach. After being put onto drugs to stabilize his blood pressure, they had to completely sedate him again. They preformed an Upper GI scope, and had to clamp a few lesions in his gut. They then had to transfuse a few units of blood.

Then today the neurological team came back in to do an hour and a half EEG, to check for seizures. Even though they had ruled out seizures a few days ago…
When we left the hospital I think they had stabilized and upgraded to serious condition again…

And to top it all off, my Mom and I were only able to spend about 10 minutes with my Dad. Every time we went back to spend time with him, the nurse and/or doctors (stopped us by) asked us hundreds of questions… sigh.

Another long day.

I apreciate that. Thank you.

So some more potencialy good news.
My dad was more alert today, and was able to follow some commands. If he stays that way, tomorrow they may take my Dad off the ventilator.
However they are still telling us that things could easily go the other way as well. The Doctors also still don’t know what is causing all of this… *Sigh*

Good news. My Dad seems to be on the mend.
He is now off dialysis and the respirator. He is awake, and doing some talking. Though he still has times when he doesn’t know where he is or who we are…
They are now looking at the possibility of moving him out of the ICU.

Now they still don’t know what caused all this to happen, and I’m not sure what their doing to find out… but at least he is on the mend. :D

So now their starting to think that it was a Stroke… Again…

They keep ruling something out, then saying that is what it is…

Stroke was the first think considered, and ruled out… Sigh. :(

My Dad’s memory is slowly coming back. Which is good.
Now that he is awake the doctors are thinking about sending my Dad to a rehab hospital.
Despite the fact that no one knows what cause the problem.

There are about 5 teams of doctors all working on my Dad’s case and it seams that they all have a theory.
The two most common seem to be Stroke - disproved
and Overdose - disproved