03-05-2024, 09:23 AM
A couple months ago, I was told that an old friend, Dean, who used to teach the girls when they were little had fallen and broken his hip. He lives near Charlotte and was in the hospital for over a month due to complications. As soon as I heard about his hip, I started sending him cards every week in care of his daughter who also lives in Charlotte.
He was released a month ago into rehab. Last Monday, he was released from rehab and was doing really well. He went to stay with his daughter until he was able to go home. I sent another card on Wednesday with a happy face on it since he was finally able to go "home".
He passed away Thursday, the next night. When I heard the news on Friday, I sent a sympathy card to his daughter and family. No more get well cards. It made me very sad.
Yesterday afternoon, Marianne (my mother-in-law) called to let me know that my brother-in-law Bryce was in the ICU at the hospital in a town down towards the coast. After several hours of back and forth conversations with her and the hospital, she is going to fly down there probably Wednesday. I am probably going to drive down and get her at that airport and then we will figure out what to do from there.
He has liver failure - cirrhosis (probably stage 4), kidney failure, pneumonia, full body edema (generalized edema), c-diff and who knows what all else. The hospital suggested that no one sign a DNR. His wife (they split up a couple years ago) made it to the hospital yesterday and is freaking out. She went back home for now.
Please pray that Our Father's will be done, that Bryce need suffer no more, that we all have strength and faith to pass through this whatever it turns out to be.
Thanks! Love you all
He was released a month ago into rehab. Last Monday, he was released from rehab and was doing really well. He went to stay with his daughter until he was able to go home. I sent another card on Wednesday with a happy face on it since he was finally able to go "home".
He passed away Thursday, the next night. When I heard the news on Friday, I sent a sympathy card to his daughter and family. No more get well cards. It made me very sad.
Yesterday afternoon, Marianne (my mother-in-law) called to let me know that my brother-in-law Bryce was in the ICU at the hospital in a town down towards the coast. After several hours of back and forth conversations with her and the hospital, she is going to fly down there probably Wednesday. I am probably going to drive down and get her at that airport and then we will figure out what to do from there.
He has liver failure - cirrhosis (probably stage 4), kidney failure, pneumonia, full body edema (generalized edema), c-diff and who knows what all else. The hospital suggested that no one sign a DNR. His wife (they split up a couple years ago) made it to the hospital yesterday and is freaking out. She went back home for now.
Please pray that Our Father's will be done, that Bryce need suffer no more, that we all have strength and faith to pass through this whatever it turns out to be.
Thanks! Love you all