Saturday, November 7, 2009

Our Streak is at an end.. Mike is in the hospital

Dog! We are in the ER as I type waiting on a hospital room. We were doing so good! This is all related to Mike's feeding tube. Mike was doing his morning medicines when the tube got clogged. We tried everything - coke, sodium bicarbonate, warm water, syringes to no avail. We placed a call to the doctor and we had to go to the ER. After an hour wait in the waiting room in masks, we were escorted back to a room. We have been here for 4 hours. God, once again, has met us here. Our ER doctor goes to our church and he knows us. His wife was the director of Life School Musical and is in love with Elizabeth. So we tried again to flush it here, and it is still clogged. Dr. Armstrong thought he could remove it and put another one in here in the ER, but unfortunately the opening is too small. After consulting with everyone, it was decided to admit Mike tonight and perform the procedure in the morning at 9:00 am. They need to place a guide wire down Mike's nose through his esophagus to put in the new tube. Everyone is concerned about the cancer there and possible complications, so they want to do it right and not a quick procedure tonight. So here we are...

Please pray for a private room (way too many germs here), and that the procedure goes well without complications. Please also pray that Mike or I will not pick up any stray germs while we are here.

I am praising God for His angel here in the ER, for insurance, and for all our friends and family that have helped in a moments notice with Elizabeth! I will post again tomorrow.

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