I know all of you have been wondering about Keith. He started with a stomach Thursday evening and Friday he said it was a little better. He did not act as if he was in a lot of pain.
On Saturday morning I called the Dr. and he said to take him to the ER (in Pekin Hospital).
They did a lot of blood work and his abdomen was very sore. He had a fever and they thought it might be his gall bladder. He had never had any attacks before. So they admitted him and made him comfortable and started giving him antibiotics.
By Sunday morning he was about the same, but by early evening he spiked a fever and became gravely ill. His blood pressure was very high (l89/139. By this time he was having trouble breathing so they started oxygen. A surgeon was called in and she was quite confident it was infection in his gall bladder. He got progressively worse and they called in Rapid Response and they revived him. I was nearly frantic. The surgeon decided to operate at 8:45 Sunday night.
He did have a badly infected gall bladder, filled with pus. She had to use 2 liter's of fluid to clean it out. She also repaired a umbilical hernia. The surgery took 2 hours so were so thankful when she came out and said it was over. We left for home about 1 AM as he was in critical care.
When I went the next morning he was awake and alert. He was in CCU for 2 days. Tuesday he was moved to a surgical floor and so far he is doing well. Today they took the Oxygen away,
removed his catheter and he sat up in the chair twice. He also walked in the hall. He has no appetite, but tries to take fluids. He still has IV's with quite a few antibotics.
Larry's girls came over to see him for a while this evening and he was thrilled
We thank you for your prayers and keep on praying that he will continue to recover.
Love, Alice
5 comments:
Thanks for the update! We were wondering how he is today. We are very thankful he is doing better and hope it continues. We've been thinking of you and praying for you.
Sorry about the typo. I don't know how the "amp;" got on there.
Aunt Alice,
What a frightening experience for you. (There seems to be a gall bladder epidemic in the family!) I'm so thankful they caught it and he's doing better. We will certainly keep you in our prayers!
Cathy
We were happy to see the overall good news on the blog...had talked to Barb and Larry the night before. Things can sure come up in a hurry. You will remain in our prayers.
Thanks for the information and update. We will continue to pray for Uncle Keith . . . and you too!
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