What a weekend! Friday night turned out to be quite eventful and we've had a major family crisis the past few days. My cousin Alex, who's 5 yrs younger than me, and whom I consider more of a brother, is in critical care as I type. About 11 weeks ago he was pulling 4 of his 5 kids in a wagon and felt something "pop" in his knee. Over the coarse of the past 3 months, he's been going through vigorous physical therapy and to different specialists. This lead to him having orthoscopic surgery last Wednesday. Nothing big...outpatient surgery. (So we thought!) By Friday morning he was in so much pain that he had his wife take him to the ER. After many tests and as the day went on, they discovered he had 3 blood clots in his leg!!! Friday night around 10 pm Jay and I were driving my aunt (his mom) down to Columbus as they were taking him in surgery to go in and hopefully drain these clots. The surgery went ok, but they were concerned about his vitals when he came out. He was at stroke level with BP and heart rate. Luckily that went down and yesterday seemed to be a good day. Well, this morning at church my aunt got a call from his wife that they were taking him into emergency surgery because he was losing too much blood!!! She had his 4 girls with her, so immediately after church she brought them to us and her and DH headed down there. The prayer chain was long and wide today...he has so many people pulling for him! :) The kiddos just got picked up and thank God he's doing MUCH better. They were about to sew up about 4" of his 17" incision, and are planning to take him back into surgery Tuesday for some skin graphs to sew up the rest. He's had a couple close calls, and for being an otherwise "healthy" 31 year old, this has been a big scare to all of us. I would appreciate if any of you would keep him in your prayers. Alex is like a brother to me and we grew up together. I would simply be heart broken if anything happened to him. He has 4 beautiful girls: Jasmine (7), Alex (5), Tasja (4) and Jillian (3). Those kids mean the WORLD to me!! He has a new wife and a 4 yr old step-son. SO much to live for. He isn't out of the woods yet, but he's holding his own tonight. I would just really appreciate any extra prayers we can get for him right now. Thanks Everyone!! :)
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To all my faithful blog readers, I thank you. I am currently having family issues with my side and am cutting off all commincation ties. I just cant take the drama and crap and how everything seems to be my fauly even though I have not seen them in over 5 years, some 15 years +. I just cant take it. My husband is in Iraq, I just miscarried, I have a lot on my plate and I dont need it. I tried and tried and tried to make things ok but it always fails and I cant take it. So, my blog and my myspace are now set to private and can only been seen if I invite you to read and see.
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OMG Lora! Your Cousin is so young to have so many complications from a knee injury! How are his girls handling all this? I will most definitly add him to my Prayers. Lora.... Who is Pendelton? I read down some of your blogs and I seen you lost him but what is he?? LOL.
Keep me posted on your Cousins condition and I will continue to add him in my Prayers.
Your Friend,
Debbie
Lora, your cousin will be in my thoughts and I will be sending healing thoughts his way. I hope that he continues to mend.
wow so scary. I have had knee surgery before and you are right.. usually it is just simple! So sorry to hear about all of his scares... sounds like he is doing better though... I hope he gets better very soon!!!
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