Monday, November 2, 2009

Word from Dr. Elkins

Let me begin by saying how God blessed us from the beginning on this ordeal. We were fortunate enough to get one of the worlds leading surgeons to oversee this operation.

The Dr. told us that Shay had "a nasty abscess" in heart. They were able to get all of this cleaned up and his aorta replaced. He stated that everything went great and expects Shay to make it through. His blood pressure is still a little low and there is some oozing in heart so they are waiting to sew him up. They said this is not unexpected. We are hoping to hear from the second doctor in about an hour.

We are not out of the woods yet however. We still have the virus issue that we must attack. We will hopefully learn more about that on Tuesday but we are planning for 4-6 more weeks of treatment here in OKC. Please continue to pray that the antibiotics will attack the infection in his body. Praise to God for his provision so far.

2 comments:

  1. Hello, I am Sharyn Everitt and my husband Dan use to work with your dad and mom at the GM plant in OKC. I still am in email contact with Jerry. I am so very sorry to hear about your dear little one. Please be sure that I have added Shay to my prayer list and will send his name to all of my Christian friends.
    May God Bless and keep Shay, may He lay his healing hand on him and your family.
    God Bless, Sharyn Everitt seintn@aol.com

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  2. Shay, david and mom from spfd, mo. send our pray's to God for you to get well as soon as possible. keep up the fight. love david and mom.

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