News from NC 3:30 pm

Last Friday, Oct 19, my father had a fall that fractured his femur on his left leg. This took him to WFUBMC.edu it one of the main hospitals here in Winston, NC. They scheduled him for surgery Monday morning. For those of u that do not know my father is diabetic and has low blood pressure, cholesterol, osteoporosis and dialysis 3x a week. Sunday night things got a little complicated he started loosing blood so they decided to find out why this was happening before surgery. Everything turned out okay so surgery was scheduled for Tuesday morning. Jim and I decided it would be good if I flew up to NC to be with my mom and be of help to her and him. I flew out Tuesday morning feeling so torn between my daddy and my girls. I had never left my girls nor Jim for more than a couple of days. Anyway this story is getting really long and it is only the introduction to the worst. Now I will have to keep the details for another occassion, but surgery went great, I was able to give my mom some rest. I stayed w my father Tues night. Wed morning his stomach starting acting up. He was beginning to get bloated............oh boy this is going to be so long so many things happened from there, just when we thought the worst thing was his broken femur, we are now sitting in the icu unit waiting for his blood pressure and heart rate to stabalize after having a heart attack. I was by my dad's bedside when he began loosing his pulse, the scariest thing I have ever witnessed. Watching his heart die and his breathing disappear is yet the worst thing I have experienced. The Lord gave me the strength to handle it okay. Unfortunately he had a heart attack and we still arent sure what caused it, but the doctors think that maybe while he was being dyalized this morning he lost too much fluid which caused his blood pressure to decrease. They have done labs and just now done x rays of his heart and chest to see how much damage the heart attack did. Please keep us in your prayers and I will keep you all updated