Update on Mom

This is an update on the past day and a half since an urgent prayer request was made for Mom and our family. Thank you Beth for posting the request. Please forgive me if I don't have all the details correct or the timing exactly right. But I know at 3:00 mountain time yesterday I called the resort to talk to Dad and I knew something was wrong. Donna Schrag, a friend and manager of another resort answered the phone. Dad had rushed Mom to the emergency room with blurred vision, slurred speach,memory loss, numbness on one side and severe pain. Michele drove up to Estes Park and Mom did not even recognize Michele when she arrived. It was really a frightening situation. Their good friend and doctor, Barry also met Dad and Michele at the hospital in Estes. After a CT scan was performed it showed to be clear but they felt like an MRI needed to be performed. This hospital did not have an MRI so they transported Mom by ambulance to St Luke's in Denver. She was incoherent off and on through out the night. She did not recognize Barry or her plastic surgeon, Dr Baker who came to check on her last night. She could not tell them where her pain was and they did not want to give her any medicine for the pain until she saw the nuerologist. Dad and Michele stayed with her at the hospital and they said she had a restless night and kept saying "pain, pain, pain". At some point she was able to tell them it was her head that hurt so bad.

Thank you for all your prayers last night because by this morning the doctors were amazed at her progress. All of her symptoms had ceased except for the severe headache! And she also remembered everything from last night!

At some point today they did give her some medicine to ease the headache but it was coming back late this afternoon. Today was a day of waiting for test to be run. So far they have done a sonogram of her heart and an MRI of her head. Both test came back clear! Thank you God!

They will perform a spinal tap this evening and will have final results on this sometime tomorrow. Her white blood count is slightly elevated, they are leaning towards some type of viral infection at this point. Which will have to run its course. Please pray for this procedure to be without complications.

Please continue to pray for my mom, when I spoke with her this afternoon she assured me that everything was going to be ok. Pray that her headaches will ease and that she will get a good nights sleep tonight. Please pray for Dad and Michele, that they will feel God's peace, it is very scary to see a loved one in the shape that Mom must have been last night. Please pray for safe travel for Uncle Wayne & Aunt Linda who have been traveling and should arrive tomorrow at noon. Please pray for the doctors as they continue to rule out possibilities, we are grateful that the MRI was clear. Please pray for me too - it is hard being so far away.

Our desire and Mom's desire is that God would be glorified through it all. We praise God for prayers that have already been answered!

Thank you again for all your prayers!
Love,
Teresa