Tuesday, March 17, 2009

THANKS FOR THE PRAYERS

What a whirl wind few days, but God is Faithful and has been with us every moment and every mile. In the last blog I wrote that Will had a spell that caused the Dr. to want him to return to the USA --- ASAP. Well God still has us in Africa. Saturday Will had 2 episodes of his heart racing and being very dizzy. On Friday we had been told that he had a TIA. Saturday morning he was admitted to RFM with what the Dr. was now saying his heart was in Atrial Fib. RFM had no heart monitor working and they could not do another EKG because the machine was locked up and they couldn't find the person with the key. Do you know understand why we need to work with RFM and their clinics. After much phone calling by the Dr. and Barbi Moor who had arrived the evening before from BFC, we transported him to Johannasburg, South Africa. It was about a 5 1/2 hr trip by ambulance of which he tolerated fairly well.

He was admitted directly into CCU and was given medicine to try to convert his heart rate back to normal sinus rythem. When that didn't work they did an electrical shock to convert his heart. Praise the Lord that worked.

Today he was moved into a regular room and has been up walking some. He is still having some dizziness but is gaining his strength after being in bed since Friday afternoon.

We hope to be able to move him to a motel tomorrow or Thursday where he will rest until we are given the ok to travel home. At this point it looks like we may get to leave on Sunday.

Again we both want to thank you all for your prayers. We have received calls, e-mails and messages from all over the world. What a mighty God we serve. Looking forward to seeing our family and friends back in OK real soon. You in Ohio will have to wait until we can travel again.

God Bless you all and keep praying.

3 comments:

mel said...

Oh, my. You will definitely be in my prayers.

Anonymous said...

We're praying for you!

Gary, Julie and Emily

Margaret Glyn said...

Thanks much for the update! We are praying that all will go well and that we will see you soon. Much love, Margaret