Thursday, January 31, 2008

Prayers Needed

Sorry for no new pics this morning but we had a bit of a tragedy last night. Uncle Harold, Aunt Lois's (Dad's sister) husband suffered an anurisum in his brain. He was at a meeting up in Fort Collins when it happened, and was air lifted to Swedish Medical Center in Denver last night. They have him heavly sediated right now and are discussing possible surgical procedures. As of last night they had given him a 25% chance of survival. But as we all know Grandma had this same thing happen in 1999 and they didn't give her much of a chance either, and look at her now she is a walking, talking, panio playing miracle. So Dad and I are getting ready to head up there to be with Auntie and Mathew. So please say a prayer for them. I will update when I get back later, and try to get something up about the boys as well.
UPDATE
Well Dad and I just got back from the Hospital. Harold underwent surgery this morning, they opted for the coiling procedure and everything went well. (If I remember right Grandma did the clamping procedure. It was a little sureal to be heaing all of that stuff again. It was almost word for word what they were telling us for Grandma.) The bad news is that with testing they have found out that he also suffered a massive heartattack, which is more than likely what caused the rupture. They also learned that his Kidneys are not fully functioning. So they need to do an echo cadiogram tomorrow to see what the damage is to his heart and see where they need to go fom there. They are giving him about a 20% recovery rate from all of this. It is all a bit overwhelming to Auntie, and I think that her and Matthew are still in such a state of shock that the severity of this has just not sunk in yet. As we know this is a very long hard road for them to take, and they really have no idea how hard the ups and downs will be. With Grandma it was always like one step forwad and then two steps back. I just hope and pray that it goes better for them. I will continue to update as I get the info. So keep praying for them.

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