Prayers Please....

Michael's grandmother had an episode Friday night, and she was at the county hospital. She was on a ventillator Friday night and she's been pretty sedated. They were trying to rule out anything with her blood sugars, or possibly a stroke. Something happened to her that night, which caused her to not be able to speak, and she had a seizure in the ambulance before they left for the hospital.

We don't know much, but here's the latest update :

Michael's grandmother (Bebe) is in the Cardiac ICU at a local hospital. She had some pretty major and scary heart issues that are still not quite stabilized, but she was extubated today. She's currently on a CPAP machine (it forces air into the patient's airway,thereby keeping her oxygen saturation up)...basically a step down from the Ventillator. Most people wear a CPAP at night when they have sleep apnea. ANYWAY, she's waiting to stabilize to have an internal defibrillator implanted, hopefully sometime next week.

She does have pneumonia, and we're uncertain whether or not she had that on Friday already, or if she got it from the stomach contents she aspirated when she seized Friday night. Either way, she's on a fairly strong and fairly common antibiotic, not only for the pneumonia, but she also has a UTI/bladder infection combo, as well as the unfortunate fact that the infection is also in her blood. The antibiotics are taking care of that.

So, there is a lot of crap going down with her, and your continued prayers are greatly appreciated. I'll update when I know more.

She had a cardiac episode Saturday afternoon called Ventricular Tachycardia, which is basically a non-sustainable cardiac rythym...it's not something you can live with. And she did go into full cardiac arrest. She's been shocked with an external defibrillator almost a dozen times, I believe since this all started. She had an external pacemaker installed Saturday evening at JPS and they removed it when she arrived at Plaza. We're waiting for the infections to stabilize and resolve so they can put in a permanent defibrillator, HOPEFULLY next week.

So there you go....life is hard and sucks right now. Please pray.