Ill try and not make this too long winded. About a year ago my dad had a double knee replacement so he could get around, he was basically a cripple. For the best part of this past year he's been in perfect health, till this weekend ...
We were on a family vacation and before we even left he was complaining of pain in his hip, but as usual my old man just ignores it and does whatever he feels like. Well as the day progressed he felt worse and worse, so bad that my mom rushed him home to the emergency room an hour and a half away at around midnight that night. Couldnt find anything major that late at night so they sent him home with some pain meds, to wait to see his doctors the next morning. He goes in the next day has a couple MRI's and they still cant find anything (thought it was his back, like a thrown disc or something).
Then comes Tuesday morning @ about 1 am. I get a call from my sister saying dad is in really bad shape, they had to rush him to the hospital he was unresponsive etc, high fever couldnt move blah blah. Soooo after spending all night in the emergency room they finally moved him to ICU and made him confortable. They found out that he had some sort of infection but they werent sure what it was or what it ws caused by. He was somewhat stable and coherent.
Last night was a tough fight for him and his fever came back along with MASSIVE amounts of pain. They determined that he has a bacterial infection called MRSA and that it was not only attacking his muscle structure but his joints and his entire bloodstream. So today they changed him to some super high powered antibiotics and they did surgery on his knee and shoulder to remove fluids and to replace some of the synthetic parts in his knee. Thankfully it has only attacked one shoulder and one knee, and the antibiotics are keeping him alive atm. This is some of the worst pain a human can endure as it attacks the very blood that runs through your body. He has pain just by touching him, so needless to say I'm a bit frazzled and I am by no means ready to give up my dad.
Please pray for him and include him in all your prayer circles at your churches etc. My dad is the strongest man i know and has endured more pain throughout his life than anyone ive ever known, so i just pray to the lord he can pull through this life-threatening time. He has about 6-9 months of recovery ahead of him if everything stays stable. Just praying it does.
Thanks everyone.