"I will not leave you"

This is Mrs. Steve - this was a good day. The nurse practioner called yesterday and was working on springing Steve to a new joint. St. Agnes Hospital. This is a "bridge" hospital between Jefferson and Magee Rehab. They specialize in weaning patients off of trachs and rehab them as well. This looked like a good fit for Steve.

Today they were unable to move him because of a particular blood test having to do with the pulmunary system. They decided to keep him where he is and get the pulmunary DR involved in his care. They did a number of tests. One of which was getting a sample of mucous down deep in his lung. As you can imagine it irritated him greatly and he was coughing for a long time. They also drew more blood and have him on 3 anti-biotics. The nurse gave him a treatment to hopefully open up his passage way and relieve some of his coughing.

We were reading "My Utmost for His Highest" and he needed a potty break - so we took care of that. While I was out with the nurse, Steve pulled out his trach. Oh my. I ran back in the room and saw what he had done and saw that the trach was on his chest. I ran and got the nurses and they were "johnny on the spot". They called ICU and got the pulmunary staff up right away to get it back in. They were calm and professional and VERY quickly they had a new one back in place. They spoke words of encouragement to Steve all the time. However it was very frightening for Steve. When I left I prayed with him and told him I would be back to see him in the morning. I re-assured him that there was NO heart problems (they had just this evening run an EKG). Also that there were NO pulmunary embulism (they had just run a CT scan of his chest on Thursday). I know his mind was going back to his sister who passed with a pulmunary embulism a number of years ago.

I assured him that this whole thing he is going through is part of God's plan for him and HE will get him through this. I recited a few verses and asked him to personally pray to God to get through this most difficult time. He said, "I am." I shared that God made a promise to NEVER leave us and that He would not break that promise. When I left he was acting a bit better.

Please pray for Mr. Steve especially right now - imagine lying in bed for three weeks and not be able to communicate and to be restrained on your right arm and not able to move your left arm.
If you are reading this in the evening. Please pray the Satan will not have a foothold in my thought life tonight and that I will "rest" in HIM and sleep peacefully.

Thank you sooooo much for all you prayers for all of us!