Day 32

FRIDAY October 12, 2007

On Thursday Jeff felt weaker than usual. He was coughing up blood and passed out the one time he tried to stand up. When I left to go to my son's football game they told me his pressure was low but it was nothing to worry about. I have an hour drive home and was late for son's game. I had only been back intown 45 minutes when they called me and told me they were moving him to ICU on the third floor. I called my pastor to get the prayer chain going and called one of my best friends to sit with me at the hospital. I left my kids with my parents for the night.

By the time I got to the hospital Jeff was in very bad shape. His blood pressure was 50/38. They told me they were going to re-intubate him. I was allowed to see him for 5 minutes and had to leave the room. After they intubated him they called me and my pastor back into the room and we got to stay with him until they took him to surgery. He had lots of blood coming from his NG tube and they needed to open him up to look and see where it was coming from. The surgeon told me they could now guarantee that he would make it out of surgery. They found a blood clot that was blocking his small intestines. The surgeon said that he could not do any repairs and would have one of his partners work with him on Saturday to try to clean up his small bowel area and see what could be done. God brought him through and yesterday he seemed peaceful and was alert and talking to us (using an alphabet sheet). He is strong and wants to make it out of here. He has surgery at 1:30.

Please pray for the surgeons to have the wisdom and the knowledge to repair his small bowels and that Jeff will make it through all of this and be home with us soon.

A family at my church got me a room at a hotel down the street so I did not have to drive an hour home and then an hour back this morning. I went almost 48 hours without sleep and am exhausted. My parents stayed with me and friends have our kids. My dad brought my laptop so I could keep my self distracted.