WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES

Yesterday Mickey & I had the most delightful day just hanging around the house, enjoying each other, our wonderful life and love for each other. Last night we attended our 3rd Monthly Bee Club meeting which was excellent. Driving home we talked about what a fine group of interesting and caring people they are.

At 2:00 a.m. I am awaken with him calling "Susan, come and help me" from the bathroom. When I get there he is on the floor with his head hanging over the commode and trying to throw up and can't. He is breaking out in a cold sweat and trying to pass out. I don't know if it is the heart, he thinks it might be food poisoning from something he ate at the meeting. I am praying like mad. We go back and forth from bed to bathroom. The diarrhea starts but he just has the dry heaves. I keep saying I need to call 911 and he doesn't want me to. I am doing everything in my power to keep him from passing out. Talking to him constantly, praying over him, cold wash clothes to his forehead, even lightly slapping his face, etc.

To make a long story short at 4:15 I finally override his wishes and calling 911. The ambulance arrived in 12 minutes. They hook-up all the testing equipment and the heart is doing good, he is getting plenty of oxygen, etc. but he is still fighting not passing out. The decision is made to transport him to the hospital.

Once in the hospital he was given a med intravenously that immediately helped. The heart checked out fine, the oxygen in his blood was fine, the blood work was fine. The Dr. ruled out food poisoning. They did stomach x-rays. It was finally decided he had a virus.

He is released a little before 7.The drive home make him nauseous again but we finally make it home. I get him into the bed and the sickness is still coming over him in waves. Finally, after about an hour he falls asleep. He has been sleeping most of the day but was able to eat a yogurt, a little plain rice, tea and a peeled apple and keep them down. He is well on his way to recovery.

Before we left I had e-mailed our Pastor and Vanessa, of the Remnant Prayer Group, to pray. Vanessa was scheduled to be at my home at 8:15 this morning for coffee and a visit. She came over briefly and we prayer. Another dear friend of ours, the one who lived in our house for 4 years and works for EMS heard about the call and came over and prayed with him and visited.

I do not know what people do in times of trouble with The Lord and wonderful, supportive Christian friends. We are scheduled to be in Oklahoma City again this Friday, the 15th, at the VA Hospital for a breathing procedure and an electrocardiograph. We are still standing and believing he is going to be healed and the bi-pass surgery will not be needed.

Please join us in prayer.