Shortly after I got to work this morning I got a call from mom telling me they were taking dad back to the hospital by ambulance. It's been one heck of a ride today. I'm not sure who signed us up for this roller coaster but I'd like to return my ticket and get my money back!
Dad's sugar bottomed out at 32 this morning. Efforts to bring it up were unsuccessful so mom and John called the squad. They had difficulty as well but did finally get it back up.
There are a host of problems at this point: low blood sugar, low blood pressure, fever, excruciating pain and they have been unable to keep him awake. He is in ICU and stable right now. Once they got pain meds on board he started to perk up and was more alert. We saw his doctor briefly and he believes we are again dealing with infection. They have taken oodles of blood and cultured anything that can be cultured. The doctor did tell my mom if they can't get this infection under control the prognosis is not good. Now we wait and pray.
We were all there today. John, Darlene, Steve and I are home now. Jamie is there with him for the night and we were able to get mom to go home to rest a short while ago. We'll all be back tomorrow and see how things are going. Today was very frightening, for dad especially. Please pray for peace for all of us and wisdom for his doctors.
Goodnight and God bless.
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