Hi there everyone,
We are still here at the hospital, but it is starting to sound more and more like we might be getting out of here this week! Our surgeon met with Ryan this morning and was extremely pleased with how he's doing. Ryan has had a couple of really positive days and his paracentesis output has slowed down to absolutely NOTHING since yesterday morning. :) Incision is doing very well, pain controlled, counts stabilizing, and he's getting much more mobile! The news that we heard today was that Ryan could get discharged tomorrow to be able to go over to the hotel, and then depending on how he does caring for himself, we could go home - YES, I JUST SAID HOME - the best place on earth - on Wednesday or Thursday. :) :) :) :) :) :)
Please pray that direction!
We love you guys!
-kp
Edit: I also just remembered that Tigers baseball starts one week from today. Oh my goodness, today is amazing.
Showing posts with label bleeding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bleeding. Show all posts
Monday, March 25, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
He's out of surgery!
Waiting to see him still, but he is out.
Surgeon said that they were able to suture and coagulate the bleeding that was happening in a tumor just outside of the large intestine. Praise God that there was no need to resect any of his bowel. There was no bleeding happening when they closed him up. We are so grateful for the balance that the surgeon took in being aggressive enough to fix the problem, yet delicate enough to not cause any damage to him.
So now what? Ryan is being moved to the surgical unit to recover for the next 5 to 7 days (could be longer, depending on how he recovers). We will be trying to make arrangements to come home as soon as we are able.
Oh Lord, you are so good to us and so faithful. Thank you for loving us extravagantly and for covering us in your grace today.
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
Surgeon said that they were able to suture and coagulate the bleeding that was happening in a tumor just outside of the large intestine. Praise God that there was no need to resect any of his bowel. There was no bleeding happening when they closed him up. We are so grateful for the balance that the surgeon took in being aggressive enough to fix the problem, yet delicate enough to not cause any damage to him.
So now what? Ryan is being moved to the surgical unit to recover for the next 5 to 7 days (could be longer, depending on how he recovers). We will be trying to make arrangements to come home as soon as we are able.
Oh Lord, you are so good to us and so faithful. Thank you for loving us extravagantly and for covering us in your grace today.
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
They found a bleed!
A tumor in the back of his liver has a vessel that is bleeding. They are going to do a small incision to fix the bleed because they cannot fix it with laparoscopy.
This is the best possible news we could have gotten!
Not out of the woods yet, and surgery should be another couple of hours.
This is the best possible news we could have gotten!
Not out of the woods yet, and surgery should be another couple of hours.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
On Christ the solid rock I stand.
...all other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand.
Hello. Here we are on Sunday, March 10. I'm trying to keep the "clack clack" of the keyboard to a minimum as Ryan sleeps beside me.
The last couple of days have been both wonderful and rough. Some close family members came into town for the weekend which was AMAZING, and we just said goodbye to the last of them. We are back down to just immediate family plus one Amy. :) It was wonderful to see people, but Ryan has been increasingly uncomfortable with some nagging GI symptoms. Please pray for relief to come from those problems. I think he'd be a thousand times happier if that were the case.
The bleeding has not stopped; if anything, it has increased slightly. His hemoglobin is hanging in there, though, and we are grateful for that. Radiation starts TUESDAY, please make sure that you circle and star that date on your calendar! When I know appointment times, I will make sure to tell you all so that you can specifically pray at the time of day that he has radiation.
Not much else to report medically. Emotionally I think we are all just very drained and tired. Monday punched us in the gut, then we got hopeful when there seemed to be some treatment options, and now it is very hard on everyone to see Ryan be uncomfortable. Spiritually, Ryan continues to be our mouthpiece - or rather, God's mouthpiece, reminding everyone that our hope is in Christ, not here on earth. I continue to remind myself of Romans 8:18: "I consider that our present sufferings do not compare to the glory that will be revealed in us." Won't it be sweet, someday, for us all to have forgotten about these earthly troubles and to be in glory? I'm shivering at the thought of that. How sweet that day will be!
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus' Name.
All other ground is sinking sand.
Hello. Here we are on Sunday, March 10. I'm trying to keep the "clack clack" of the keyboard to a minimum as Ryan sleeps beside me.
The last couple of days have been both wonderful and rough. Some close family members came into town for the weekend which was AMAZING, and we just said goodbye to the last of them. We are back down to just immediate family plus one Amy. :) It was wonderful to see people, but Ryan has been increasingly uncomfortable with some nagging GI symptoms. Please pray for relief to come from those problems. I think he'd be a thousand times happier if that were the case.
The bleeding has not stopped; if anything, it has increased slightly. His hemoglobin is hanging in there, though, and we are grateful for that. Radiation starts TUESDAY, please make sure that you circle and star that date on your calendar! When I know appointment times, I will make sure to tell you all so that you can specifically pray at the time of day that he has radiation.
Not much else to report medically. Emotionally I think we are all just very drained and tired. Monday punched us in the gut, then we got hopeful when there seemed to be some treatment options, and now it is very hard on everyone to see Ryan be uncomfortable. Spiritually, Ryan continues to be our mouthpiece - or rather, God's mouthpiece, reminding everyone that our hope is in Christ, not here on earth. I continue to remind myself of Romans 8:18: "I consider that our present sufferings do not compare to the glory that will be revealed in us." Won't it be sweet, someday, for us all to have forgotten about these earthly troubles and to be in glory? I'm shivering at the thought of that. How sweet that day will be!
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus' Name.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
How to pray for us tonight
Hi there, friends.
I know that a lot of you are getting ready to spend a part of your evening in prayer for us, so we thought we would let you know what we learned today, and how to specifically pray. There are some IMPORTANT prayer requests here.
I know that a lot of you are getting ready to spend a part of your evening in prayer for us, so we thought we would let you know what we learned today, and how to specifically pray. There are some IMPORTANT prayer requests here.
- Ryan's bleeding scan showed no active bleeding. Whether it's because the bleeding stopped (can you say MIRACLE!) or whether it had just stopped momentarily and will start up again, remains to be seen. (I say - the sky is the limit; let's ask for the miracle.)
- We are going to take a "wait and see" approach for the next few days. Doctors will be monitoring his hemoglobin, blood pressure, and the output of the paracentesis. The drainage seems to have slowed down considerably, another good sign. Blood pressure and hemoglobin have been steady today - yeah!
- If it appears like the bleeding is picking up again, the options are: more bleeding scans, laparascopic surgery to determine where the bleeding is, or the aforementioned angiogram to determine where the bleeding is and try to stop it.
- Ryan is comfortable, and with Steve, Cathey, Ryan, myself, Corey, and Jeremy - we have enough people for three Euchre teams so the competition is heating up and a lot of trash talk is going on. Okay, in all seriousness, we are praising God for Ryan being able to be surrounded by all of the members of his immediate family.
So, we are certainly not out of the woods yet. But we so trust in the power of prayer, and we know that our God is listening to the rising multitudes. We are confident in Him, and we continue to pray that His will would be done.
ROMANS 8: 31-32
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
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