[Oe List ...] Update on the Morrill family

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Hello friends,

A very quick note to update you on what's been going on in our family during
this past week.

Monday night about 10:00 pm Justin began bleeding from the rectum.  He did
not inform me of this until quite late into the evening; in fact, at 1:30
a.m. he called for my help because he felt he was going to faint while in
the bathroom.  At first I was torn as to whether to get him to bed until the
faintness wore off or call someone, but when I saw the amount of blood in
the toilet bowl I called 911 and an emergency unit came out.  His blood
pressure had dropped to 96 over another very low figure, so it's no wonder
he was faint.  They took him to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital
where he lay on a gurney in the ER for 16 hours.  Justin called me Tuesday
night and said that the doctor told him to go home.  This was around 6:30
pm; I was aghast, and I told him to check with someone else because I felt
they were crazy. So they kept him overnight. Thank God, because that night
he bled again, and had to have 2 pints of blood transfused to him.  By Wed.
they found "room in the inn" (as the nurses spoke of it) and put him in an
intensive section with many wires monitoring him.  Each night he bled
profusely and they gave him more blood.  They did about 3 different scopes
on him and couldn't target exactly where the bleeding was coming from.  By
the time they hit the 7th unit of blood, after a terrible night in which
Justin thought he was dying, literally, a surgeon was called in and said
that, since the diverticulitis (sp?) bleeding hadn't stopped by
self-healing, surgery would be required. So on Thursday, at 3:00 he had a
significant length removed from his lower intestine.  

 

He is now doing very well.  They gave him another 2 units "just in case" but
the bleeding is no more, and the intestinal area looks just fine!  We are
very grateful that if he was going to fall apart like that it was just as
well it happen BEFORE he was due (2 days later) for surgery on his right
rotator cuff-the doctors and nurses agreed that would have been quite
disastrous to happen during a surgery.

 

Anyway, he is doing fine; his color is better than ever, and his blood
pressure quite normal.  He is walking when he can, but will remain in the
hospital for another day or two before returning home.

 

Life has a habit of making major unexpected turns on us doesn't it?  The
rest of the family was exhausted.  And I'm most grateful for my daughters -
they've been rocks, to say the least.  Gen came here after being at a
business meeting in Florida, and Anita has basically held everyone together
as the go-between communicator, especially during the first couple of days
of the great "unknown."

 

Hopefully, all of you will have a very healthy and wonderful 2006.  We
expect to. 

We are grateful for our family and friends, always.

Del  

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