Sunday, April 13, 2008
I hate to report that today was another rough one, but it kind of was. Andrew did not sleep at all last night and not much today until about 3pm. They finally had to sedate him to get him to sleep. He's quite agitated and he's had a pretty high fever today. He does have a "normal" infection due to having a catheter and has strong antibiotics for that. Visitors are completely restricted now due to that and we now have to wear gloves and those paper gown things for our own protection rather than his. It will be this way until that passes. They are really trying hard to get him off the ventilator by Thursday or Friday at the latest. I'm told he can't be on the vent for more than 14 days. Due to his state of agitation and lack of rest, they did not assess his senses today, so I don't have news there. He seems to have slipped a little and it's just so vital that we continue lifting him in prayer. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers . . . that will see us through this. Let's pray for a better day tomorrow (one day at a time). Good night and God Bless. Joye
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Joye,
We are thinking of you guys daily. Put you Drew and your entire family in the prayer box today at church.
Big Dog,
Keep your head up and be strong, I know it is easy for all of us to say, but all of us truly are praying for you to get better soon. Rest easy my friend..
As soon as Joye gives
the green light I will be in to see you...
Mario & Tara
Hey Andrew,
I just wanted to say you’re in our thoughts daily and to tell you not to give up. My wife Rosie was in a terrible accident back in 1992. She had crushed her hips and pelvis, broke her lower back and so on. The Doctors said she was in bad shape and even went as far as writing on her file “loss cause, she will never walk again”. My wife told herself that was not going to happen! Every day was hard emotionally and physically. They repaired her hip, pelvis and lost two inches off her right leg but she never gave up. She went from a walker to crutches then a Cain. With in a year she gave birth to my son Jonathan and had him naturally. If you would see my wife today you would not believe what she had gone through. By the grace of God along with a lot of faith, prayer from family and friends she continues to be our strength and we know that we could over come anything with strong will and faith.
I wanted to share my testimony with you to show you anything is possible with 'faith'. Never give up on your determination no matter how many rough days come along. I will keep you and your wife in my daily prayers for healing, strength, courage, & serenity. GOD Bless you both!
Wil Ramirez
A healing prayer ....
In the stillness of Your presence, God, I feel Your healing life flowing through me now, bringing peace to my mind and energy to my body.
Enfolded in Your powerful healing love, God, I experience health and wholeness in mind, body, and emotions.
Thank You, God, for Your healing life that surges throughout every cell of my entire being, strengthening me and restoring me to wholeness.
To You, dear God, I release any concern about my health. I trust Your healing love and Your life-giving presence to renew me.
Dear God, I am open and receptive to Your healing power. Your light and life energize every cell of my being, and I am grateful
In Christ's Love & Light we pray for your strength & healing.
I couldn't wait to come to work and see how Drew was doing. I'm sorry you guys had a rough one. Here's hoping and praying that last night was better and that the challenges become easier today. We'll call you guys, "Winkum and Blinkum"! Love you!
Sorry to hear about Drew progress. Let's both agree in prayer right now: Dear Jesus, we ask that you would please intervene for Drew right now. We declare a miracle healing takes place over his body right now, in the mighty Name of Jesus. By your strips he is healed in Jesus Name. We speak life into his body. That he would feel a touch of your Holy Spirit right now as we speak. Amen and Amen.
To the prayer above...AMEN!!
I hope today is a better day for the both of you.
Langley, get the rest that is needed and keep up the fight, no matter what don't give up Bud!
One day at time.
Just know that I am constantly thinking of you both.
Love ya!
Michele
Joye~
We continue to pray for Drew and keep you and your family in our thoughts. You're strength is being tested, as is his....dont forget how strong you are. Hang in there Joye, you're doing an incredible job.
Drew.....ya gotta pull outta this bud. I know you want to....and everyone is praying that you do so very soon. You continue to get better, and once you do, we will be there, and until then, we are there with you in spirit.
Hoping much improvement comes with today~
Michele Sundwall
Joye,
First I want to thank you for keeping us posted on what is going on. There are so many people here at Dakota that care and want to see him heal 100%. Your an amazing lady. Thank you so much for taking care of langley and making sure he follows doctors orders.
Langley,
We miss you. You need to hurry back we need to do an Intervention on Amanda. She is leaving us!! I have to admit it is kind of weird without you here noone to mess with. Or should I say noone is bugging me. Take care of yourself and hurry back.
You both are in our thoughts and prayers!!
Danielle Brothers
Langley, as I sit here knowing that this is not what you expected, and knowing your probably feeling helpless and getting agitated is probably an understatement, but you need to stay focused on getting better. You have this inner strength to accomplish this. Please don't give up.. I read Joye's updates daily and even go in and read them over throughout the day, She has done a wonderful job in keeping us up to date on you daily. That is a tremendous help to us. You have sooooooo many people that love and charish you. We will come to see ya as soon as it is allowed. Rest and stay focused. We are with you at all times. love ya Carrie
Hang in there Big Dog, I am sorry you had a rough day. You already know from your time in the gym that you are stonger some days than others, and everyday isnt going to be the greatest. Just stay focused and keep on working it it. One step at a time. You will get it all back.
Joye, please let us know if there is anything you need help with, or if we can do something for th Big Dog.
Hey Joye,
This is Barry! We are going to cut our Bible study short so we will have extra time to spend praying Andrew. I know the Lord can heal him. Joye if you get a chance, read him some Bible passages, start with the book of John in the New Testament beginning with the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. And read him a chapter from the book of Psalms each day. It’s important that he has the word of god in him; it will build up his faith. Joye I am so saddened that my friend Andrew is in this condition, I am going to literally cry out to the Lord for him. That’s what I did when my daughter Deana was dying of full-blown spinal meningitis when she was a toddler. I literally cried out my whole soul to the Lord to heal her. I was crying the first night she was in the hospital, they had her in a plastic bubble. I was crying when a friend of mine came in the room and took the Bible out of my hands and opened it to Psalms 30:5 it say’s: “For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Joye, after I read that it was like the Lord spoke that personally to me, so much so that I wiped the tears from my eyes and closed the Bible, I told my wife that the Lord was going to heal Deana by the morning. Well, my wife wanted to believe that the best she could but she kept on crying which is normal. Joye, the next morning we woke by sunlight that came in the room as the nurse opened the shades on the window. I immediately looked at that bubble where Deana laid, and she was sitting up in bed playing with the toys that we had put in there the day before. She looked as though nothing was wrong with her, the doctors did another spinal tap on her and told us that she was 100percent completely healed and they did not know how it happened. We took her to the hospital at 12 noon the day before and they had a team of baby doctors working on her. They told us that if she didn’t respond to the meds in ten days that she would either be a vegetable the rest of her life or she would die. Joye, God heard my prayer as I cried my heart out because I knew that ultimately man could not heal her, and I promised Him that if he would heal my baby girl (that He blessed me with by the way) that I would serve Him with my life as long as I am on this earth. Deana’s 25 now and I have served the Lord Whole heartedly ever since. Joye it’s ok to make promises to God like that, sometimes when bad things happening to us it becomes a huge opportunity for God to show us how real He really is. I love you guys.
Barry
Langley,
We both Keith and I(Monica)crazy like you call me are praying for you. Hey keep thinking positive. Get well soon. We well be looking forward an seeing you at the Y.M.C.A soon. Hey i know you are a strong person an hope to see you soon been your normal self. Joye take care of yourself also.
Monica & Keith
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