Sunday, January 18, 2009

10:00 PM Stephen is resting well in his new air bed. He has had low blood pressure through out the night and today. His bottom number has been fluctuating from 20 to 40. They prefer for that number to stay in at least the 30-40 range. He received two more pints of blood to keep his pressure up. Stephen had a fever of 102 through the night, but it is lower now. Stephen's stomach was swelled and they had to drain fluid off his stomach. We truly believe God is working a miracle in Stephen and he is going to get better soon. Thank you to everybody for all the calls, comments, visits, food (many have asked and we will let you know as we will be doing this for a while and can only use and store a small amount of food at a time), and other support, etc. Myra, Philip, and I know there are many out there supporting us in prayer, thoughts, etc., many that we don't know about personally, but we feel the love and support. It will take Stephen time to recover from all this time in the bed. He will be receiving therapy for all this. After Stephen gets his tracheosotmy by Tuesday or Wednesday (hopefully) he may be sedated for up to seven more days. After this, he will start to come out of this and will slowly be getting back to the Stephen we all know and love. He will have us all laughing and feeling good. We will know he is really feeling better when he asks me to get him some pizza. - Jeff

No comments:

Post a Comment