Self Portrait Sunday 11/15/09
Well hello there! I’m still alive even if I haven’t blogged in a couple of weeks. I just haven’t had the mental energy to deal with it! Between Grandma being sick, and worrying about Jason who is still in Ann Arbor fighting for his life I just haven’t wanted to come over here and deal with the every day mundane things like linking to glucomannan or talking about how I’ve gone to work everyday and everything was business as usual. Plus in the middle of that, my modem went bad and I had no internet for several days until I was able to call Comcast and schedule a service visit.
Anyways. The last time I posted about Jason, he was in the hospital with a fever of 104. Things got markedly worse from there as his fever shot up to 107, and nothing they could do would bring it down. They ended up putting him on a ventilator and then into a medically induced coma to keep him calm and try and let his body heal. By the time they decided to airlift him to Ann Arbor to be put on a heart and lung machine, he was on full life support, his kidneys had started to fail, and the doctor here was only giving him a less than 25% chance of survival.
Thankfully things started turning around once they got him in Ann Arbor. He’s improved quite a bit, but there’s still a very long way to go. Even today, he had a very rough day and they had to take the ventilator back up to 100% before backing it off to 60%. They have him off the paralytics, and we’re all just praying that he continues to improve every day. As of right now, we have no way of knowing what kind of recovery time line he’ll be looking at, or even what kind of lasting damage he’ll be dealing with. They’re still trying to get him out of the woods.
Needless to say, your continued prayers would be very much appreciated. He’s got a wife and a baby girl, as well as a large extended family that really need him to recover and come home!
