TO EVERYONE FROM JOHN AND PATRICIA

Howdy Friends,

Thank you for all of the prayers, love, support, friendship, time, patience and food.  John and I will never be able to thank you enough... you all are an amazing group of friends.  We could not be more blessed.   

Here is a very brief recap: 

 Scott arrived at St. Lukes on Wed, Oct 21st,  with symptoms of appendicitis.  The doctors did not perform surgery  until Mon, Oct 26th.   During the surgery they discovered that his colon collapsed, he had bowel inflamitis, and colonitis and his appendix had ruptured and had adhered backwards.  He was put in ICU and during that time had a chest tube inserted in  his left lung because his lung was collapsing.  He was in an incredible amount of pain so they were trying to keep him comfortable. Then on Saturday, Oct 31 he underwent another surgery for bowel adhersion and two abscesses.  At that point they needed to put in two drainage tubes from that surgery.  He then returned to ICU again and this past Sunday, Nov 8.  Again test were run because Scott was again in incredible pain and the test revealed that he had a pulminary embolism in his left lung and a blood clot in his vena cava (main artery) and in a blood clot in his right groin.  Today he is still in ICU with hopes of him going to a regular room tonight, however, he is still spiking a fever on and off and they are monitoring the situation.  Our hope for today  is that he will be moved from ICU to a regular room.

They are watching the left lung area where there seems to be some areas of abscess still which they are treating currently with heavy antibotics and  still monitoring the blood clots.  

He is resting comfortable today and he is anxious to get out of ICU and really is looking forward to coming home and being done with the hospital. 

We are sorry that we have not been able to return everyone's phone calls and emails but we know you all understand and we hope that this little bit of information will help you all know the road that Scott has traveled to date.  

Please continue to keep Scott in your prayers.  The abscesses and clots and fever are still areas of concern.

Thank you again for all your support and prayers.  

Love, Patricia and John

(This is being sent from Julie's email)