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

[Priscilla Wilson]

Del,
Thanks for letting us know about Justin's emergency and hospital  
stay. Good to hear he is doing much better now. So good you knew to  
act immediately.
All the best as he fully recovers...and the rest of you get life back  
to "normal"...not that there ever is a normal.
Let us know about his continuing progress.
Priscilla

On Jan 14, 2006, at 7:51 PM, hypnocenter wrote:

> 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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