The hospital staff has warned us that there will be ups & downs, we've just been blessed with many more up than down days.
Today has been a down day for sure!
Dad has slept for the better part of the past 24 hours. Seems like that would be a good thing... maybe he just needs his rest. But not so, they tell us. Since his feeding tube was out, they weren't able to get him his much needed medications or food.
So here we are, 20 hours or so after the big move, and he's had to have the feeding tube re-insterted and is currently having a lumbar puncture. It's a diagnostic procedure done to collect sample of cerebrospinal fluid for analysis (checking for infection again), and to relieve increased CSF pressure on the brain.
Very few responses today from Dad for Trish or the Doctors & nurses, so now we wait... and pray... and pray some more.
One step forward, is sometimes followed by two steps back we're told. Join us to pray for continued healing and strength for Dad and comfort for each other.
In His love...
Johnny
Romans 5:1-5
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
