Paula Still praying for Steve every day. Stay strong. Cheers Alec On 21/02/2014, at 6:51 AM, "Paula Gillen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello > > Here are my last two updates to family and friends. If I don't answer > texts, emails, phone calls, please do be offended. Days and nights run into > one long nightmare that I cannot wake up from. My sister and brother-in-law > leave on Sunday. I will miss them terribly. I have to deal with this on my > own and I will. As long as the prayers continue, I will endure. Thank you > for your concern, > > > > Paula x > > > > Hello all. The latest on Steve. They have determined that it is not his > immune system; he does not have swine flu so not masks are not longer needed > and his door is open to allow fresh air, his white blood cells count is just > started to curve downward. He may infection and possibly more than one. He > still has the ventilator in to feed oxygen in but now the breathes taken are > his own. They are trying to bring him around slowly but if he shows any sign > of panic or if his breathing becomes laboured again, he goes back under. His > body needs him distracted to work as hard as it is. The doctors are very > careful to advise that he is still in very very critical condition and it > could still go bad. Doctors have to say this. I am grasping for any bright > spot in this situation. They have taken a biopsy of the skin on his legs to > test as they do not have any idea what he has. Hopefully the tests will be > complete tomorrow and the will tell them something or they go back to more > testing. They have taken him off some of the blood pressure meds, but his > heart still requires help. He is getting some nutrition directly into the > stomach through a tube going in his nose and down to there. He is not going > to be happy to wake up to stuff like that. I have been talking to him about > all the people out there who are praying for him and loving him in there > wishes to get well. On behalf of myself and his children and grandchildren > and all the rest of his extended family, we thank you from the bottom of our > hearts. I will update you as and when there is something to report. > > > > > > Update - Spoke to the doctor today (20/2/2014) with Louise (his daughter) > there. His room door was closed as he had a watery stool and they are > checking that nothing has entered his intestine, so we wait for more test > results. The liquid nutrition continues. The skin biopsy may take a week to > come back with a result. It could be viral or a bacterial infection. The > circumstances of him getting whatever this is is a chance all of us take > everyday and it just happened that he came into something where, as the > doctor said, there was a gap in his system that made it possible to it to > get into his system and run rampant. If it is viral all they can do is let > his body handle it, with them keeping him stable, and hope his heart keeps > going. If it is bacteria, they should have something in the antibiotic > arsenal to help him. They are bringing him out of the coma to fine out if > what he has is affecting his brain and any other function. If he panics or > becomes "unhelpful" to the point they have trouble doing what they need to > do for him, then they will put him under. His liver, and lungs are okay. > His kidneys are not particularly okay and his heart goes into mad rhythms > sometimes. They say he is stable so we will hang on to that. He could go > either way, but I am putting my hopes on him beating this. At least they are > weeding out what it isn't and right now that list is bigger. When he turns > the right corner and starts to come back to the world of the living instead > of the half life that he now exists in, our lives will start heading in the > normal direction and I will be able to function knowing he is beating this. > Until them, I pray and I live in a fog but keep going. I tell him everyone > is out there praying for him on both sides of the pond. If prayers and love > can heal, he will be on his way to coming back to us. Thank you for all you > are doing. xx > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
