Please pray.......

I realize the post has been quiet for too long, but there has been a lot going on and updating this site has been last on any of our priority lists these days. To sum things up, dad has been moved to the ICU because he is battling an infection in his lungs and he is having a hard time breathing. He has been placed on a biPap machine to help him get the oxygen he needs. Overall, his vitals are good and his blood counts are where they should be. It just appears his body can't shake this infection for whatever reason. At this point it would appear to be either a bacterial or fungal form of pneumonia, but the doctors are still trying to draw a bead on it.

So at this point, he'll continue to stay on the biPap until his lungs can recover on their own. They will continue to administer antibiotics as well. If he gets worse, he'll be intubated, which carries with it a whole new set of concerns and risks, so please pray that he bounces back quickly.

Being on the biPap machine is proving to be difficult for dad as he feels claustrophobic with it on. Several times this evening he tried to remove it and had to be calmed down and reassured that it was good for him. I guess the positive in those actions is that he still has some fight in him, which is good. But it feels like to all of us that everything that can go wrong, has gone wrong and it's hard not to feel snake-bitten at this point. Every small sliver of hope we can find keeps slipping through our fingers and for me personally it's getting harder to find the good in all of this.

Please, keep our family in your prayers. That dad would recover from all of this and be kept comfortable as he battles through this. For my mom, Ed, Rachel, Natalie, and our kids as we struggle with the physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion that is quickly creeping in.

Peace,

Ron2