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

[JTresise@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/14/2006 5:57:55 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
delmorrill at hypnocenter.com writes:

 
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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Hi Del:
 
It's good to hear that the source of Justin's bleeding was found and  
stopped, all be it after, what might have been a disastrous decision to send him  
home.  "Truth" eventually guided those in charge of his care!! 16  hours in the 
ER?  What a trial, unfortunately all too common from what  Kathy tells me. 
Please tell Justin that we're sending our prayers and  healing energy to Justin 
for a steady, rapid recovery!!
 
John & Kathy Tresise
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