1-09-06 Update:
Grandpa is off the ventillator. He is still in the ICU.
1-03-06 Update:
No new news. Grandpa is still on the ventillator. I am back in the Cities. I got in last night, and I work today. I will know more tonight.
Thanks for praying.
12-30-05
I'm banging this out on the hospital curtesy computer so forgive any errors. Please pray for my grandpa again (and my family, especially my grandma and dad). Grandpa's going back into surgery this afternoon. Thanks.
10:40 PM update:
Here's all the news that I know. Grandpa had surgery. The surgeon sounded relatively optimistic. He said the next 24 hours are going to be critical, but right now they're giving Grandpa a 50/50 chance of making it.
So basically, my Christmas and pre-Christmas have been one big rollercoaster ride on the emotions. Today we went from they're not going to do anything and Grandpa's going to die to they're going to do surgery and Grandpa's probably going to die to they're doing surgery and he will probably die at any minute to they did surgery and he might just make it but we can't be sure for another 24 hours. I feel like I have been drug through the mill.
The difficult relatives also showed up and felt compelled to hug me, so that was fun. Everybody's at the end of their nerves, so added tension was really nice.
On the whole, I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry or fall asleep in dead exhaustion. I'm sorry I haven't called all you all, but my phone was in roam and then it wouldn't pick up a signal and now it's a quarter to 11, and I know most of you are asleep.
Anyway, that's the update. Please keep praying. We can use all the help we can get right now.
Posted by LoWriter at December 30, 2005 01:38 PM