Updates

Writing and emailing all these updates on my Dad and this journey from heart attack through healing has me thinking about spiritual updates!

If I could send out a prayer request email daily updating people on the condition of my heart spiritually speaking, can you imagine how much healthier I'd be? I was driving to the Heart Hospital to visit Dad yesterady when I pulled up behind a truck who had the license plate, "PRAY4ME." I thought that guy's life must be remarkable! I actually prayed for him. Eph. 6:18 says to pray for the saints ALWAYS! Wow, I was on to something. What if I used my blog to beg for other saints to pray for me?

Lately, I've been asking for prayer on here for my Dad and his health and this journey and I'm thrilled to report that he is going home as I type :) I just really got to thinking how important updates are for people who are praying. I'm not going to have this blog become a personal prayer request place for me, but I will continue to use it so that I can monitor my spiritual gauges. What are they set to? Am I hitting the mark?


Today, I feel the "normalcy" of life returning once again with Daddy going home and Nick returning to work. I pray that I give my children lots of love and fun memories today. Tomorrow I'll worry about rotating out the bins of clothes for the change of season and cleaning the house. Today, after all this, I just need to love on them.

My Dad

I'm sitting up at a Heart Hospital where I've been for two days straight. Yesterday morning, my Dad called my Mom and asked her to come pick him up and take him to the Hospital. It was there that we discovered he has suffered a heart attack that night before.

Right away they took him back to do an angiogram. During that process, they found three clots in the back of the heart. Because of this discovery they were unable to put the stint in. They put him on a blood thinner to break down the clots. That brings us to this morning where they went to check on the clots and hopefully put the stint in. Well, they couldn't get up the artery to the heart due to having basically a crooked or coiled artery.

So, they took him in for a CT Scan to look at the femural arteries in his legs to see if the other leg was an option and to see if the one artery had perforated. The CT Scan showed that they could take the Sheath out of the leg and there was no damage, but the anatomy of his arteries would not allow the procedure to work.

On top of all this, he has bad kidneys and the dye isn't the best thing for them. So, the Doctors want to give his kidneys a rest and medically treat his heart now from the heart attack.


So, this is the journey I've been on the last two days and I needed to write all this information that's been in my head. Thanks for listening and praying!!!