Please be praying for some dear friends of ours. They are in home missions out west in the U.S. Bro. Matt and I went to school together at Bible College in Resaca, Ga. Please pray for this family.
HALEIGH
She has been moved to Rehab and is no longer bedridden, she is free to move around as she can! She is remembering some things and she cannot process that her "daddy" cannot come to see her, but they are working towards getting her a pass in the near future to be able to come over to the on other hospital to see him.
MATT
Last night his BP went up extremely high as well as his heart rate ( up to 180) and he spiked a fever. This was somewhat a turn for the worse but reporting from a personal standpoint...this is something that will happen A L O T over the next few weeks....Higher BP and Heart Rate and even Fever is a sign of many things , but some being that he is feeling pain more, his body is responding to it and to possibly infection , and the fact that they are trying to lower the sedation and up the pain meds, so that he won't be completely "OUT OF IT" all of the time.....if they lower the sedation then they can get more responses out of him , and although some of the responses may be pain ,and that seems horrible......it IS a good thing. The more places he CAN FEEL pain......the better!
They, ( the doctors) believe that he has pneumonia in the LEFT lung, but at this time the RIGHT lung looks the same. Later today he will go down for a BRONCIOSCOPY ( not sure on the spelling....sorry!) to have a light run down thru the respirator and then they will take a sample of the mucus there to test it for what type of pneumonia, they will begin him on a antibiotics anyway bc the test takes up to 48 hours and do not want to risk it laying dormant for that long, when they determine the type they may or may not have to change it but hey......prayerfully it will already be getting better before that!
Wednesday ,he did wave his hand at one of the nurses and he had squinted his eyes, seemed to have bit down on the tube in his mouth and waved his arm!!!! PRAISE THE LORD !So as you can see there will be MANY - MANY small victories over the next few days and weeks and months, please rejoice with this family over even them slightest.....it DOES MEAN THE WORLD
HALEIGH
She has been moved to Rehab and is no longer bedridden, she is free to move around as she can! She is remembering some things and she cannot process that her "daddy" cannot come to see her, but they are working towards getting her a pass in the near future to be able to come over to the on other hospital to see him.
MATT
Last night his BP went up extremely high as well as his heart rate ( up to 180) and he spiked a fever. This was somewhat a turn for the worse but reporting from a personal standpoint...this is something that will happen A L O T over the next few weeks....Higher BP and Heart Rate and even Fever is a sign of many things , but some being that he is feeling pain more, his body is responding to it and to possibly infection , and the fact that they are trying to lower the sedation and up the pain meds, so that he won't be completely "OUT OF IT" all of the time.....if they lower the sedation then they can get more responses out of him , and although some of the responses may be pain ,and that seems horrible......it IS a good thing. The more places he CAN FEEL pain......the better!
They, ( the doctors) believe that he has pneumonia in the LEFT lung, but at this time the RIGHT lung looks the same. Later today he will go down for a BRONCIOSCOPY ( not sure on the spelling....sorry!) to have a light run down thru the respirator and then they will take a sample of the mucus there to test it for what type of pneumonia, they will begin him on a antibiotics anyway bc the test takes up to 48 hours and do not want to risk it laying dormant for that long, when they determine the type they may or may not have to change it but hey......prayerfully it will already be getting better before that!
Wednesday ,he did wave his hand at one of the nurses and he had squinted his eyes, seemed to have bit down on the tube in his mouth and waved his arm!!!! PRAISE THE LORD !So as you can see there will be MANY - MANY small victories over the next few days and weeks and months, please rejoice with this family over even them slightest.....it DOES MEAN THE WORLD
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I hope Matt get better soon. And may the Lord comforted his loved ones.
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