Monday, 12/1, 10pm Hopefully, tomorrow I will be telling you the website address. It will be updated around this time each night. Mom needed some rest today. Yesterday was apparently too much for her. She breathed mostly on her own for about 12 hours. This alone was a shock to the doctors that made them question whether the tracheotomy was going to be necessary. I think they will take a slower approach with the hope of removing the respirator late this week. If they can't, they wil...

11/30/03, Sunday, 11:58pm "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done is secret, will reward you." Matt 6:6 "Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving", Col. 4:2 IT'S REWARD and THANKSGIVING TIME!!! Saturday night, the respirator was providing 10 breaths / minute for Mom, down from 16 last Wednesday. As of 9am, Sunday, Mom was pretty much breathing ...

11/26/03 11:35pm Mom had the only tube to the right lung today removed! There is only one more tube in the left lung that didn't drain much fluid at all today. This might be coming out tomorrow hopefully. She's still dependent upon the respirator and will most likely have a tracheonomy done soon. There hasn't been anymore responsiveness then before. Her blood pressure did drop some late the afternoon and medication was given to help boost it up some. She is still in ICU. We would lov...

Mom was coming back from Church on 11/16/03 around 1:05 pm and loss control on an icy road going off the road and hitting the corner of a house. Due to weather, they could not get the helicopter there and she was rushed to University Hospital. She had to be recessitated once and remained extremely unstable for the afternoon and evening. There were signs of communication with the fingers on the right hand late Sunday night and Monday morning. Here are the extent of her injuries: Left side.....

11/25/03, 11:41pm Good day to all of you "precious souls" out there as Rupert from "Survivor" would say. We are hoping that by Friday, the website will be up. It will consist of some history since there are many still just finding out about Mom, daily updates about her condition, prayer focuses, answers to prayer, commentaries from the hearts of family and friends, and possibly a section summarizing periodic readings from a book, The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, Mom and others...