Rough Week

I am glad that today is the start of a new week. Last week was very rough week, and my whole family is having a tough time getting through everything. My has had several heart attacks in his lifetime. He was feeling very weak on Wednesday, and he knew there was something wrong so he called an ambulance. When he got to the hospital they said there was a leak in his aorta. They told him he needed to be life lined to Methodist to have a chance of survival. After they told him this they informed him they could not find an available helicopter, and he needed to call and say his last goodbye's, because he would need to be taken by ambulance and would probably not survive the trip. He made it to Methodist alive, and they started running test on him, but he was not doing very well. The doctors there told him there was no leak in his aorta, but instead he had a blood clot in his heart. They told him the surgeon would be in Thursday morning to decide whether he needed to have surgery to remove the clot. When the surgeon arrived Thursday morning, he decided he did not have a blood clot, but instead he had an aneurysm that ran from his heart to his groin. They took him into emergency surgery, before anyone could get to the hospital that morning. After he came out of that surgery the doctors realized there was a leak in his aorta, so they took him back into surgery. He has been through two more surgerys to repair damage to his heart, and no one knows if he will ever be able to leave the hospital. There is only a ten percent chance of him surviving, and everyone is waiting to see if he will wake up. Since Wednesday they have also found that one of his kidneys has shriveled up and died, he only has on working lung, and he is in the late stages of emphysema. Please pray for my family, and my uncle. I know we all need it right now.