Encouraged

Encouraged - that is the word that the doctor used this morning to described how he felt about my daddy. The doctors started him on a new medicine last Wednesday night and after one dose his white cell count went from 43,000 to 25,000. And this morning, the white cell count was down even more. Daddy is still on the continuous dialysis and will get some blood today to help things along. He rested well last night. His blood pressure is holding its own and his chest x-ray to his primary doctor looked better. We are encouraged.

This is a far cry from where we were Wednesday afternoon when Daddy was in a downward spiral and everyone including the doctors thought we were losing him. But today we are better. We have received numerous emails, phone calls, text messages, etc from everyone. We have felt every prayer and seen the results of them. We have been blessed by so many people and my faith has grown as a result. Keep the prayers coming as we have a long road and not out of the woods yet.

I received an email last night from a good friend about someone he knew who had ARDS and the family had been called in to say their goodbyes. Today that man is walking around healthy as a horse. ARDS is a tough thing to be but as someone said "you daddy is tough, but our God is tougher".

Daddy is still very, very sick and has a long way to go but as of this morning, we are encouraged.