The sedation medication that was restarted last night is helping, but blood pressures are still up and down. We seem to be caught in a cycle. They have to give him the sedation and pain medication to keep him calm, but then his blood pressure drops. If he gets agitated, however, his airway starts to collapse making ventilation a challenge.
The removable stent that everyone wants for him probably can't be placed until Monday. We can't do a tracheostomy (to remove the very large ventilator tube that probably makes him feel like he is choking) until after the stent is placed.
Please pray that somehow we can get that stent sooner.
Please pray for his sedation and that blood pressures will stabilize.
We are so thankful that he has not developed any infection or pneumonia. Dr. G said this morning that his chest xray is "pristine."
Please pray that, as a family, we will learn how to wait on God.
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"With the Lord a day is like a thousand years,
ReplyDeleteand a thousand years like a day. The Lord
is not slow in keeping his promi8se, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you,
not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repetance."
2 Peter 3:8-9
Dearest Sam, you touched a very real feeling/promise/aspect of the God we serve with your thoughful words. I believe you know and have prayed out all of the possible scenarios to this tradegic and personal epsidode in all of our lives. In the end, all we can ever do is to sit in the prescence of God Almighty and wait for Him. This is where I am glad that the word "patience" was included in the list in Galations 5:22-23--huh?
Jeff