We finally got to have a meeting with Daddy's Doctors' last night. I was hoping for an improvement in Daddy's condition before I wrote this post. Unfortunately that hasn't happened yet.
The Critical Care Doctor's explanation to us as to why Daddy won't wake up is: "In an ICU setting if you're not progressing in the ICU then you're moving backwards. There's no standing still and when you have someone at your Dad's age, with his illnesses that's now this far into it, still on the ventilator and with a malignancy there is a chance he won't make it through. It's unfortunate and you hate to think about it, but with someone that's already had kidney failure, pulmonary embolism and respiratory failure the statistics are not good for him leaving the hospital."
Daddy's white blood count is elevated (not high, but elevated). His red blood count is very low and they actually ordered 2 units of blood to be given today. He has some rattling in his lungs (which probable means pneumonia, but they haven't confirmed that yet.) and he's not making much headway on the ventilator. The wound specialist redressed his wounds yesterday and said the neck looks pretty good, but the wound in the side of his chest looks "soupy" and they took cultures. They had to redress the wounds today because the incision on the chin was not healed as much as they thought it was and when he would rinse his mouth with the special rinse it was coming out the chin incision. They will reevaluate again on Friday. His kidneys are functioning better but are still not back to what they were when he came in the hospital. They are still giving him lasix, but he's retaining a lot of fluid and is very swollen. Which with his heart problems the fluid retention is a problem. His temperature keeps fluctuating one minute it will be 101 and 2 hours later its 98 and they are not giving him anything to bring it down and don't really have an explanation for us as to why it's doing that. Right now his sugar is holding pretty stead, but that's because he's on a continuous drip IV insulin.
So in a nutshell Daddy is very, very sick and it's going to take a miracle for him to overcome this.
I know everyone has been praying for him and the family greatly appreciates it. Please continue to keep Daddy in your prayers and ask friends and family to include him in theirs.
7 comments:
I'm so sorry to hear the Dr.'s assesment. Hopefully he's wrong, just like Mom's Dr.'s were wrong by 7 years! Continueing my prayers & have requested prayers from my friends.
Much Love & Many Blessings,
Karla Long Setchel
I am so sorry to hear about the report you received. We continue to pray for you all and keep you in our thoughts. I too hope the doctor is wrong. Please do not hesitate to call if there is anything we can do!
Carolyn Edelstein
We were distressed to hear the report today. We have been praying for all of you and have asked for prayers in our church for the last two Sundays. We know how stressful this has been on all of you and just wish there was something we could do to make things better. We know it is all in God's hands and we must pray His will be done. Either way, we know God has his arms around LeRoy. Give our love to your Mom.
Jesse and Jan Jones
We are thinking about your family and Uncle Roy daily. So sorry that the news is not better. We will continue our prayers for all of your family and Roy.
Bruce and Kim
Praying daily for your Dad & family just remember all the times the dr.s' said Ray wouldn't pull through & look at him today. God will give him the strength to pull through this.
Love , Laurie Ann
So Sorry to hear the news. I will continue to pray for healing and rest and peace for the family. Sorry I am in SC or I would come by to do what I could to help out. David Layman
Scott and I are so sorry to hear this latest report. We have been thinking of all of you and will continue our prayers. Please give your mom and dad a hug for us.
Lisa Hippeard
Post a Comment