Thursday, December 11, 2008

Needing Prayer!

Wow, this is not the time of year you want to be visiting someone in the hospital! (Not that you want to any time of the year for that matter!)
We got a call Tue. night from Doug's Aunt Ty (Doug's mom's sister) They were having an ambulance come to take her husband, Steve, to the hospital. He was having a lot of pain in his chest and it felt like an elephant was sitting on him. They were pretty sure he was having a heart attack. They did tests and found he wasn't having a heart attack, but he had several blood clots in his lungs. (They admited him that night.) The next morning they went to turn Steve on his side and he started having a major heart attack. (This was his 4th) They did some more tests and found that the valve on his heart is not working correctly so the other half of his heart is enlarged because it's working over time. His blood pressure and pulse is back to normal so they think they have the clots disolved. The have him sedated enough to have a tub down his throat (Sorry, no technical terms) That way his heart can be resting and not having to work so hard. If he can fight through this they'll perform surgery. The Dr's have said he'll have to fight! So far he is. Right now the family can use all the prayer they/we can get!
God will never give us more then we can handle! It just seems hard sometimes! Thanks in advance for the prayers!

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