Ξ March 20th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, last night you can imagine how much loss of sleep we got. We are all so very tired and never wanted to do the things that we did today. Today we met at the funeral home and went over how much everything is going to cost and picked out the casket, vault (they have to have one of these around here), and the grave plot @ the cemetery. I tell you what….if I had to be buried in the ground….the place that my brother and Sheila some day is amazing! The site looks like an old burial mound that you might see in England! It has an amazing cross created out of some kind of bush, and their plots overlook the beautiful country side of PA! It has the best view in the world and there are three pine trees right next to where Jay will be laid to rest. He loved the mountains so much that I am sure every time he hears those trees rustle that He will love it! I mean it is beyond anything I could ever describe. I hope that Tiffany can take some pictures of it all! And I am sure that he will love the snow that will fall on that land so often! It is just amazing…..we then went to Wal-Mart to buy supplies for making photo collages (sp?) to put up around the viewing area and at the funeral. Sheila has so many of him and him with family! It brought me to tears many times this evening cutting out the pictures and putting them in their special slots in the huge poster frame!
It is funny what things bring me to cry. You would think it would be when I go into the electronics section of Wal-Mart, but it tends to be in the weird places that I never would have ever thought about him like the fabric dept…or the toy department, heh heh. But, I still find myself living a normal life and then out of the blue it hits me that it will probably be a few years and the majority of my lifetime that I will not get to see him again. But, I am OK and I am not alone in getting through this. Tiffany held me last night as I sobbed and mourned for the physical loss of my brother. She is such a part of who I am….and I kow that most of the time it is the Jesus in Tiffany that sustains me! Thank you God!
There are times now when I weep for Sheila and my parents. I can not imagine what they are dealing with and how they are dealing with Jay. I know that this is the time for questions sometimes to God sometimes to others……emotions are not only high…but we are all tending to wear them in our armpits….heh heh…..most of the time we don’t show them (our feelings that is) but every now and then we lift our arms up and we chew someone out for no reason…and never an apology is necessary because we all know that we are all dealing with Jay’s loss differently. It is hard, but it is peaceful. I know that Jay is present in that weird peaceful, loving, freaky way, heh. Sometimes it is obvious, others it is just a sense…but still it is nice…….
But the one presence I have been closest with through all of this is Christ. He is comforting me with those beautiful nail pierced hands and sweet arms of comfort! He is crying with me and Tiffany each night and in the shower, and in Halmark and Wal-Mart and @ the food court in the mall. He is just present in our midst and he is there with out any invoking or asking for it…He is just there! I have found out that people I don’t even know I am able to share the peace of Christ with….from husbands standing in the same women’s underwear section of Sears waiting for our wives to get out of the dressing room to a 15 year old girl that took my order of the Dairy Queen in the food court of the mall. I see Jesus in everyone and especially the possibility of Jesus in everyone and I could probably find a rock on the road and have a best friend with-in 10 mins. ha ha. I just love people and as Jay grew into his spiritual life and deeper and deeper into relationship with God he too had that same ability and gift to see Jesus in everyone! Jay is my hero! I love him so much! He is my big brother, and lived more life in 35 years than most people did in a lifetime. He looked at everything with fresh eyes and a pure heart. He never took anything for granted and I loved that and miss that. I hope he can continue to point out the small and amazing things of life in this world and get lots of practice where he is at now to point them out in the world to come for most of us too!
OK enough ranting for tonight!
The viewing for Jay is tomorrow @ the Sloom Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant PA starting @ 7:00 lasting until 9:00 pm…and I think there is another two on Monday 2:00 pm-5:00pm & 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. I think around here they require the family to be there during all the times…so we would love to see any of you!
The funeral will be held @ the Cochran Memorial United Methodist Church in Dawson, PA @ 11:00 am Tuesday morning with the committal service to follow at the grave side (on that amazing hill)
the church address is:
Cochran Memorial United Methodist Church
Griscom Street & Howell Street
DAWSON, PA 15428
724 529-2925
For those of you who are reading this locally and need directions here is a map of Dawson:
Sheila (and the rest of us) thought that it would be wonderful that instead of flowers that you give any money, thoughts, and/or prayers to Cochran Memorial United Methodist Church, or The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, or lastly,of course, The National Multiple Scleroscis Society.
The donation pages are the link behind the names of those places…except for the church and you can just send a check or what ever to the church to make a donation. I know that Jay would have wanted your God given resources to go towards sharing the good news of Christ and promoting healing in this world much more than just flowers that look and small good for a while but then don’t have as long of a lasting effect as these wonderful places do for the world we live in and the lives that we can touch throughout the life of Jay who touched us. Thank you all!
Love yall and please KUTPs!!!!!!!!!! (we all always need them!)
Oh and I just want you all to know if you would like to see or even meet my brother in pictures please stop on by his web site and take a good look at my hero!
WWW.HOLLUMS.COM
you know after going back to his site I want you all to read from Jay the thank you letter that he sent out to everyone (including you!) around Christmas last year..when we all thought he was in remission. It is amazing to hear these words written from Jay at this time….he is ministering to each of us even now, heh heh.
First, and foremost, I want to say thank you to all of the people that are reading this! I know if you are reading this you have at least at some point worried or been concerned about me. And I want you all to understand the glorious impact that your prayers have had on me and those around me.
When you first find out that you have cancer, it is very hard to believe. You just say to yourself that it is not possible. And you just wait patiently for the doctors to come back with a different reason that you are not feeling perfect. However, once it sinks in you just sit there and try to understand. I think I handled the diagnosis very well, but I had no idea what I was in for when it came to the cure. Chemotherapy is amazingly tough. For me I think it was tougher than the cancer. I just kept telling myself that my God has a purpose for everything, even if I don’t understand it. I proceeded to ask for prayers and blessings from all the people I know and the church that I love. I know that many people prayed for my health, and I will take all the prayers that people are willing to make on my behalf, but I will tell you this; I have never seen prayer work as effectively as it did this time. Not necessarily as a cure for my cancer (it is in remission and undetectable right now), but as an impact on my friends and family and myself. I have never felt so much love all the time coming from every where. Your prayers comforted me, my wife, and my family. They allowed me to feel wrapped in love and that is an AMAZING feeling. I have always said that the greatest miracle that God can do is not to move a mountain, but to change a heart. I have no doubt that through your prayers for me and my illness; MANY hearts were changed forever. If you ever wonder why people are allowed to ever get sick, then just realize the changed hearts of the people that form due to experiencing an illness or even a death are a great miracle. Sometimes, the only way to change a heart is through observation of another’s illness or death. I truly hope that your spiritual life has grown in some way as you followed my struggles.
I continue to pray for all of you in return, even if I don’t know all the names of the people that prayed for me. May God bless you all for your concern, prayers, and, more to the point, your deep abiding love. Keep praying as we all need miracles. Thank you once again, your prayers and Christ’s love hold me together day by day as this ordeal finishes up with the final testing and follow up treatments. I believe it is by the grace of God and your wonderful prayers that I am where I am today.
Your brother in Christ,
Jay Hollums
I miss and love you too Jay!
Ξ March 19th, 2005 | → 6 Comments | ∇ Jay |
I know there can never be enough exclamation marks after that statement. I know that this day is the day that my faith and hope in Christ is fleshed out. Today, I stood in a small ICU room with my family, four other pastors, a big wig Cancer doctor, and several nurses watching from outside double doors, All of whom Jay had touched the lives of. We stood there watching him with a tube in his mouth and a colorful pink air blanket covering him (to keep him cool from his temperature being so high). He looked uncomfortable…but his soul was so beautiful! I will never forget the time, place, what I was doing and thinking when each of my family members passed away. And Jay is no different. Sometimes today I felt sorrow other times peace, happiness, worship, joy, and most of all love! Love flowing from every part of who I am. After all, love is the greatest of all of these. I (like all Christians should) long for the time in our lives that faith and hope no longer exist, because we will be in the presence of Christ…and love is all that remains.
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My brother’s favorite verses in the Bible are John chapter 1 verses 1-18:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. (John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.”‘) From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.
Jay would tell me all the time that he was obsessed with these verses. And all the time we would talk about what they mean and why they were some of the most important of all the verses in the Bible. Tiffany shared his obsession with these verses and they would talk for hours on what they mean. These verses are so important because they speak to the divinity of Jesus Christ. The focal point of all of Christianity (this man named Jesus)……and if Jesus was not God then he was (quoting Tiffany) “just a really really great guy, that did a bunch of really really great things…that did not amount to a hill of beans”. Jesus was, is, and will always be God in the flesh. He was, is, and will always be the light for and to the world that we live in, and He is The Way, The Truth, and The Life for all of his creation (those of us living and those of us who have joined the church triumphant)! And, what was said so beautifully by John could very easily be said of Jay (whose name by the way is John) and all those who share Christ in this world. I thank God every day for my brother by blood…but I praise God every second from the essence of my being that Jesus is King of my brother and lived in him just like he lives in me.
(These words may be preachy for some of you, but what can you expect from a brother who just so happens to be a preacher, heh heh….but) I beg of you to read the words of John and search for yourself the truth in them. I pray that you can find the light that Christ Jesus is and how much the one God in Jesus desires to be in relationship with you!
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Well, we left the hospital only to drive to “Eat and Park”. (yeah, I know, a very funny name for a sit down restaurant, heh heh) We ate because Sheila just knew that that was what Jay would have wanted us to do (and she is exactly right if my brother was anything like his little brother, ha ha ha. (I have always said there is something special and holy about eating with each other) We then drove back to Jay and Sheila’s house. During the drive home on the radio (XM Radio listening to the Christian station named The Fish) every single song was a great song about heaven! They were all so special and wonderful! I don’t know about anyone else in the car but I worshiped with my brother driving home to his old home (the one he is at now is probably freaking amazing!!!!). They (the songs) were all such a blessing that I am still blown away by how awesome God is at providing comfort in the midst of sorrow!
We got to his house and this is the place that it really hits you! This is when you go back to a place that oozes Jay. Everyone makes their home a piece of them and Jay is no different, heh. We got up stairs and helped Sheila pick out the clothes that Jay will wear on Tuesday for the funeral and worship service. Then we sat on their bed and turned on his magnificent TV that he loved so much! (It is an amazing TV BTW…much better than mine and that is saying something, heh) We watched a little of the Tonight show in High Def (heh heh) and now we are all going to bed for the first time knowing that Jay is no longer suffering and in a place that “rest” is not even a word to describe what he is experiencing.
I love you Jay! I always will!!!!!!!!!! Never, will I do any ministry unless you are beside me and with me lifting up the good news and name of Jesus the Christ our Messiah King! Give Him a kiss for us and tell him we will be there soon enough, but we are going to be bringing a few more people with us on our travel there!
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit…….Amen! To all of you reading this blog, may all of your souls be at peace and may yall experience the love, grace, and peace flowing from the arms that Jesus has wrapped around you!
Ξ March 18th, 2005 | → 6 Comments | ∇ Jay |
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Ξ March 17th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, Tiffany and Sheila and I came back to Jay and Sehila’s house to take a quick nap and to take showers from sleeping @ the hospital last night. Tiffany flies out tomorrow morning early…so we are just going to pack up te air bed and have Tiffany and I and Sheila sleep there @ the hospital and then I can drive Tiffany to the airport tomorrow morning and then come right back to the hospital and the air port is a lot closer to the hospital then Jay and Sheila’s house.
Please keep praying for Jay please please please! The Dr. came in this morning and said his kidney is working more normal now…but everyone is worried about his stomach right now…due to the infection, Mucus stuff, and iritation from the radation. It is very sensitive to touch and is a possible breeding ground for a lot of bad stuff. So the Dr.’s want him to move around a little and not aloow the stomach fluids to settle and give bacteria a place to form. So they are incouraging Jay to move around and try to use his stomach muscles more.
Thanks for your prayers and be listening for more phone blog updates because I will not have internet @ the hospital. Thank you and God bless yall!
Ξ March 15th, 2005 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, we just got home and I almost was in tears tonight….when we went back for the 5:00 pm visiting time they had taken the breathing tube out of him and he was doing much better…with a breathing mask on…but his ands were still tied down because he was groggy and wanted to rip out his feeding tube in his nose. He would just shake his head a little and barely get the words of “yes” or “no” out to us…..but tonight @ the 9:00 pm visiting time he was doing very good! He was talking to us he was understanding us great and we spent most of the time cleaning his mouth out with glycerin swabs to clean out all the blood that was in his mouth from the breathing tube rubbing his mouth and throat and then the O2 mask was drying it out and causing him to have a very blood crusted mouth…the nurse gave us several frozen glycerin swabs and he loved those and we cleaned the blood the best we could…..he wanted water, but when he sucked on a small sponge to get maybe a tea spoon of water down it caused him to cough and not breathe as good….what can you expect when his throat has caked blood on the back of it?
He is doing so much better….Sheila and I wanted to start crying when he was talking to us and smiling at us and saying that he loved us (heh heh). Sheila has been saying this whole time how much she missed her Jay hugs…and tonight she got one! The nurse let us untie his hands and he would hold our hands and squeeze them the entire hour that we were there. He was so scared that it was the cancer that put him back in ICU…and he was so relieved to know that it was not the cancer and it was two infections that caused his blood pressure to go way down that made him go into ICU.
He was doing great and only got upset when we told him that we had to leave and that we would see him tomorrow, heh heh….that is a great way to make a brother and wife very happy! 
All in all he is doing much better and I can say easily that he will at least make it out of the ICU….sometime…..
His hands and feet are still very swollen from all the fluids and they are hoping that they can pull the feeding tube from his nose tomorrow and maybe he can start eating some very soft foods….but I still worry about the throat hurting him….but I am sure they know what is best. I just wanted to go out of his room and dance a gig in the main ICU waiting room, heh. I did give his nurse a hug (it was the least I could do) she is so sweet and you can tell that she really loves Jay and takes care of him.
They are still saying that we will not know if the stem cell transplant took place until a few weeks out…but I hope to hear that news as soon as possible. They have no idea when he will be out of ICU or anything like that, but so far he has proven to be another miracle through this part of the process and he continues to fight anything that is getting in the way of him getting better and serve God to be who God has called him to be….heh..
We prayed together before I left and then I gave him and Sheila some alone time and he seems to be doing much better….maybe it took all those prayers from Sunday to hit 2 days later, heh. Thank you all again for all your prayers and thoughts and please keep them up…there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel…but he still has a lot to go through just to get out of ICU and then to attempt to get back to his room in the cancer ward. Thank you all again and love ya! God bless and please KUTPs!!!!! (but for tonight send up some praise with this prayers!)
Ξ March 15th, 2005 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, Sheila calls every morning around 7:00 am here and gets a small update from the nurse and the nurse said that everything is still just fine nothing changed except his urin output is not what it should be…..so they are calling the Kidney Dr.s in to see what might be the problem… They have just pumped in him lots of fluids and nothing is coming out….. This could be another infection, but they are not sure.
Please KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! and type to yall tonight.
Ξ March 14th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, they found out that Jay had two infections (one in his blood and the other in his colon) Both are being taken care of and when we went to visit tonight he had no temperature!!!!!! His breathing is great, and his heart rate is just a little high, but within normal range for someone as young as he is. His feet and hands are swollen, but this is to be expected due to all the fluids they are giving him….they decided that there is no need for an EEG (to test if his brain waves are normal or not) and there was no need for a bronchial scope to check his lungs (they thought that they saw some liquid in his lungs…but the pulminary Dr.’s said it looked normal) they have also completely taken him off the blood pressure medicine and that is very good news…they also have stepped down his pain meds so he might be a little more responsive…but he really was not tonight for Sheila and me.
They are taking things very slowly, but he is in much better shape than when they put him in the ICU on Saturday!!!!
They still can not tell us when he will be taken off the respirator…and we are praying for his Stem Cell Transplant to still work OK. We also remember how bad he was in corporation with anyone the last time he came out of ICU. he was saying lots of not nice things, but still doing OK. He sure made his nurses frustrated, heh.
Well, that is about all….he is stabilizing very good through all of this…and I believe it is because of your thoughts and prayers and our praying with him each night before we leave his room. I know that he would love to tell each and every one of you how much he loves and thanks you all! Tank you and please KUTPs!!!!!!!
Good night!
Ξ March 13th, 2005 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, Jay is still in ICU and not much has changed…but the CT scan they did this morning came back negative…so that meant there was no bleeding in his brain…and that is very good news!!!!! He is still very out of it and the best response I got from him today was this afternoon the 5:00 pm visiting time and he opened his eyes and rolled them a little bit at me, and that was about all. They have got everything under control except for his heart rate and they think that is caused by his pain…so we are waiting for his pain to get back under control…. his breathing is just fine and they could take him off the respirator….but the Dr. tonight said that his body might get too caught up in breathing and then breathing and the pain would be difficult for both processes to be taken care of….so they are just being careful and making sure everything is healing up OK before they introduce his body into the pain and breathing right now. He is peaceful laying there (even thought he looks like one of the Borg)….. The good news is he is not bleeding in his brain and that they took out his central line from his neck and put it into his groin. After they did that it looked like his temperature went away….so that central line might have been causing an infection….but they are of course “not sure”.
He is in such a critical state right now and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that your prayers and thoughts are so important right now.
needless to say….but please KUTPs!!!!!!!
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My father has come down with a sickness and so he has not gotten to see Jay at all since Jay went into ICU…so I am sure it is hard for him…but he seems to be getting very slowly better…the more rest he gets….and so because of that he has been staying at a hotel room and not been driving back to Jay and Sheila’s house each night… please keep him and my Mom in your prayers as well.
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Please pray for the Murphy family. They are a wonderful family that we have gotten to know very well of the last two days in the ICU waiting room. They are such a Godly family…and a very big family too, heh. But we have had many a time of laugher and good talk with them over these last few days… They are wonderful.
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I would just like to share how much my wife means to me. She has been here supporting our entire family with sweet words of love and support and caring for each of us when sometimes it is hard for us to care for one another. She supports me more and anyone in the world and I know I would not be the man of God I am today if it were not for her love and support for me. She is the greatest gift during this hard time for me….and she is the answer to so many of yalls prayers when you side pray for me and my family. I hope she does not have to leave any time soon, because if Jay’s condition changes I know that I will need her sweet hand to hold and support me with the Jesus that lives in her! Thank you girl and I love you….(I doubt you will ever read this, but I love you sooooo much!
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Yall have a good night and please in the midst of all things give praise to God the thunder speaker! Psalm 29.
KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh, here are some way over due emails from Sheila:
March 2nd:
TRANSPLANT STARTS SATURDAY!
They rushed his transplant to today, They called DG and had him go to
Albuquerque for the infectious disease markers today.
They ran more blood work on Jay today and he will get the set up marks for the
full body radiation on Friday after his standard treatment.
He will be getting high doses of cytoxin and full body radiation to kill his
existing bone marrow. He didn’t not have radiation with his last transplant.
This will start Saturday and will be given over the coarse of next week.
Monday, DG will start his neupogen shots. They are shipping them to him in
Lexington, KY where he is going for a conference.
He will drive from Lexington to Pittsburgh and be here for Friday the 11th when
his stem cells will be extracted. They will freeze them and Saturday they will
inject them into Jay. He will probably be watched for a few days. He will need
to be brought into the hospital EVERY day for at least 2 weeks after that.
Jay’s parents will be here Saturday and will stay as long as they need to.
His Doctor told him today this is the most aggressive cancer he has ever seen
and that is why he wants it expedited.
Tomorrow, I am taking him for a day on the town. We will go or do anything he
feels up to doing since it will be a very long time until he can do anything for
a while. Most likely it will be a window shopping trip to Best Buy.
Well, here we go.
Thanks to all of you who have kept us in your thoughts and prayers and please
continue to do so over the next several weeks.
You are all truly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sheila
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March 5th:
We checked Jay in at 9:00 this morning. He has already had his cytoxin (chemo)
and they have irrigated his bladder (he his VERY unhappy about this). He was in
significant pain earlier but they now have him on a dulatid (sp) (morphine like
drug) pump and he says it is a miracle drug. He can give himself a dose every
10 minutes plus it administers a standard dose every ½ hour. He is very happy
with the pain med.
His parents were delayed in getting here and they should be here at 1:00 am but
won’t come by the hospital until tomorrow.
Jay just ate 2 cookies and drank some milk the first thing he had all day.
Well, my aero bed awaits.
Goodnight all.
He is in room 711.
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March 9th:
Everything is on course for the transplant. It should happen Saturday. DG is
here and he has started the neupogen and his bones are aching as normal.
DG will do the donation process on Friday.
Jay is doing well considering all that he has gone through. He has one more day
of radiation and the chemo is done.
He has had many interesting awake dreams. He dreamed last night that he had
the last drink left on the planet and the world was coming to an end but the
good guys were with him. He told me they made his drink using a blender that
went 800-900 RPMs. He said that he would rather have an appletini instead of
what they were giving him. (note: he doesn’t even know what an appletini tastes
like because he’s never had one.)
Yesterday, he told me not to get in trouble with the law by using the volcano to
break the law. He said his Dad showed him the catalog with the volcano in it.
This was really interesting since his Dad didn’t even have a catalog to show him
let alone one with a volcano. I promised him that I would only use volcanos for
good and not evil.
Really not much more to add. Everything is on track.
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March 11th:
They moved Jay’s transplant up to today and he is officially transplanted. They
keep telling him Happy Birthday here at the hospital because it is as if he has
been reborn.
I was teasing him and said “you’ll do anything to get 2 birthday’s a year )
He has been in severe pain caused by the total body irradiation and now they
have him on a very high dose of a morphine like drug and he is sedated most of
the time and this is probably for the best since he is so uncomfortable.
The pain management Doctors are officially monitoring his pain needs and
approved increase in his pain pump medication today.
He talked to me some tonight and he is being very sweet but very drowsy,
DG donated his cells this morning and he had enough to give to Jay today and
enough to freeze for later if we need to them. He was a stem cell making
machine. Jay has a truly remarkable brother.
They are going to keep him for at least a few more days because the pain is too
much to control at home. Hopefully, by Monday they can start thinking of
sending him home. He will still need to see the Doctors every day but at least
he’ll be able to sleep in his own bed.
Thanks everyone for your prayers and thoughts. They have gotten us this far.
Thanks,
Sheila
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As you can see a lot has gone on since her last email…and she has not been able to type one up for a few days…(since he has been in ICU) so I just wanted yall to have all of her emails….I try to give you all the one I have missed through this crazy time.
One other thing….the Dr. that we saw tonight was so sweet! He is a Internal Medican Dr. and he is doing his residency at the hospital…He is such a nice guy from India…and He told Sheila and me in Jay’s ICU room tonight that he was watched a movie one day about a Dr. that was trying to treat a man in a town who had cancer and this man he was trying to treat would always make everyone smile and love on everyone….and the Dr. really wanted to help this man because he knew if he helped this man that he would really be helping so many other people because of the way that this man lived his life loving others…….well, he told us that every time he thought about Jay that he tonight about that man in that movie….and He just really like Jay….heh heh…..That one almost got me but I held it in…and now I am going to go to bed…and tell Tiffany that some story. It is amazing that Jay is doing ministry for God while unconscious in an ICU room….it really makes you think how much ministry have you done today while you are awake and feeling just fine?
Love yall and God bless yall! Love in Christ……KUTPs!!!!!!!!
Ξ March 12th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, if you did not listen to the audio post…Jay is now in ICU…..this was not expected and as soon as Tiffany and I got to Jay’s room this morning he was as red as a lobster, and rithing in pain. It was not nice to see him like that and by the look on Sheila’s face she was not being to totally handle him being in so much pain either…. Well, then Jay told Sheila he wanted to use the bathroom to pee, and Jay had gone down hill over night and he could not hold himself up enough to even walk to the bathroom….so Sheila was going to help him sit up in his bed and pee into a urinal…and then he just collapsed in her arms and Sheila could not tell if he was breathing. Tiffany and I were leaving his room to give them both privacy, and as I was closing the door to his room I heard Sheila yelling out, “call the nurse” I told an orderly to get a nurse and as soon as I could run back into Jay’s room he was laying on his bed and it looked like he was having a seizure (his eyes were in the back of his head and he was totally red….but no movement) before I could get beside his bed the nurses ran in (all of them) and I left his room…and then Sheila kind of walked out into the hall with me and I hugged her….they then proceeded to call a “code blue” where they say the code blue and the room number over the entire hospital and every medical Dr. on the floor or area immediately runs to that room to help out. They immediately put a breathing tube in him and tried to stabilize him. they had to wait for several mins before a room in ICU became available…and then moved him there. We then helped Sheila pack up him room and put what we could into her car and then we went to eat lunch…because they will not let you see any ICU patient unless it is during visiting hrs…. (1:30-2:30 pm, 5:00-6:00 pm, and 9:00-10:00 pm) so we got back to the ICU waiting room at 2:30 pm and they would not let anyone in because they still had not stabilized him. They eventually got him in stable critical condition and let Sheila go back and then we went back @ 5:00 and he was hooked up to all kinds of stuff and the breathing tube(….he hates that) he was a little responsive…but not much. and then when we went in @ 9:00 pm he was bright red in his face and his hands were burning up (when they were cold earlier) and his blood pressure was WAY down…..then the Nurse came in and gave him Sodium Bicarbonate (sp?) and it was amazing!!!! His color went back to normal, his hands were cold again, and his breathing went back to s more healthy rate! It was amazing….but no one knows what exactly is going on and what it causing anything….because there are so many things going on that they don’t know which on is doing it…..the one thing we do know is his white blood cell count was 2!!!! So it is almost positive that it was not the cancer, but they do know that his blood pressure is way out of wack.
Tiffany and Sheila and I are back here @ their house because they will not even let us see him in ICU until 1:30 pm…so hopefully it will be good for Sheila to be back home and attempt to get some fake rest in her own bed. She kept on saying that what happened today was the scariest thing that Jay has ever done and it really got to all of us! So now more than ever and I do mean it very much so…..Jay needs your prayers. The Dr. actually told me that Jay’s body has got to heal and it really is in God’s hands now for that to happen……so as I type this with tears running down my face……please pray for Jay..Thank you and love you all!
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