For John is was a really bad day.
Bishop Silas Ng came from Richmond to visit John this morning. It was so good to see him and have a visit and prayer with him. However, John was not feeling too well and could not communicate very much at all. But I know he appreciated the visit.
At 2pm he began to get muscle cramps, in his feet, legs and back. They just got worse and were soon joined by all the other symptoms - sweating, difficulty in breathing etc. The only improvement over the last bad attack he had was that he was not coughing up so much phlegm as the pneumonia is pretty much gone.
This time it went on for hours and the Percocet and Flexerol (muscle relaxant) did not make any difference. By 5pm he was in terrible shape and the nurse called a doctor in. He prescribed morphine. It seemed to help and settle things down. So at 7pm when Margie called and said did i want to go out for coffee, I said sure. She picked me up at the hospital and we went to a local coffee shop and I had some supper. But when I returned to the hospital before 8pm John was much worse again. In fact - really, bad. Another dose of morphine did not help at all. Finally a little before 9pm I told the nurse to give him his sleeping meds and knock him out because I did not know how much more he could take.
Almost instantly, when she gave the meds, all the symptoms stopped, even though he did not fall asleep for another half hour. This is something I need to discuss with the doctor tomorrow.
Anyway, any hope of him coming home tomorrow is gone. In fact, I do not want him home like that. He needs to stay where he is until they solve this mystery.
Please pray for the doctor to have wisdom. I am very concerned that they are focussing on the pain (which obviously has to be dealt with) but not the cause. As I said to Margie, it's like giving you something for pain, but not setting your broken leg
Anyway - two thumbs down for today.
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