"Dede's Walk With God"
Still Blessed
Romans 5:3-5
(NIV)
3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our
sufferings,
because we know that suffering produces
perseverance;
4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.
5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God
has
poured out his love into our hearts by the
Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
Our God Is The Greatest
On October 31st, 2007, Dick received his annual
flu
shot. On Nov. 1st. he was running a fever, had
chills
and was shaking like a leaf on a very windy day
and
complained of a slight headache. He rarely ever
has
headaches so I knew something different was
going
on with him. He complained of being very weak.
He
was so weak, it was tough for him to walk across
the
room and back to his recliner. We thought maybe
he
was having a reaction to his flu shot, although
he
never had in the past.
Dr. Moran, his primary doctor didn't have an
opening
so Dick saw a Dr's Assistant and she could find
no
reason for Dick to be so sick. He was not
running a
fever when he saw her. So she sent him home.
At home the symptoms continued, so I made an
appt.
with Dr. Moran four or five days later. Dick
wore a
T-shirt, a very heavy flannel shirt and his
heavy jacket
and as he sat on the examining table he again
was
shaking like a leaf, and he had chills big time.
Dr. Moran took one look at him and said he felt
Dick
had a major infection going on inside and he
ordered
many blood tests. Later that day we received a
call
and were told Dick had a bad strep infection in
his
blood-stream called Viridians Streptococcus. He
had to be hospitalized immediately. He entered
Finley Hospital on Nov. 13th, 2007 and was put
on
massive doses of two broad spectrum antibiotics,
Ampicillin, every 4 hrs. and Gentanician every
12 hrs,
by IV.
Dr. Moran conferred with Dr. Viner, (an
infectious
disease specialist) and he was brought in on
Dick's
case. Dick was in the hospital for a whole
month, then
he was sent home and had to go back daily to
receive
his antibiotics as an IV pic-line was left in
his arm.
One lab-test called a sed-rate measures the
level of
infection and inflammation in your body and 0-15
is
normal. When Dick entered the hospital, his was
at
70. One of the very first things told to Dick &
I
was that some normally very healthy people die
from this Viridians Streptococcus. Naturally we
were
worried, me more so than Dick. He continued to
take
the same positive attitude as he had when he had
his big
heart aneurysm surgery in 2002. He said "God is
going
to save me." and sure enough he was right again.
The Dr's wondered how he got the strep in his
blood
stream and of course we have too. Dick runs so
anemic
that he had 4 transfusions in about 6 months. So
it may
have come from one of the transfusions or one of
many
other places. Who knows, and at this point it
really doesn't
matter.
The Dr's were terribly worried as Dick has a
mechanical
aortic heart valve that was put in in 2002. This
strep disease
disease tends to cling to the heart valves and
causes another
problem called bacterial endocarditic. that
would have been
fatal, according to the doctors. The strep would
eat holes in
his heart valves and all around the mechanical
one causing
leakage.
Dick did get a disease called sepsis from the
aftermath
of the strep disease. Sepsis is a serious
medical condition
characterized by a whole-body inflammatory state
caused
by infection. It could cause death also.
But, our Precious Lord has other plans for my
hubby as
He has once again given him a Major Miracle. The
doctors
are pretty astounded by all this as Dick was
told by a
specialist that his lungs were those of a man
over 80 yrs.
old, over 20 years ago. In 2002 when they did
his heart
aneurysm surgery, they feared he'd never make it
off
the ventilator, much less survive any part of
that surgery
to begin with. No problem at all! His pulmonary
doctor
told us he only has about 30 percent usage of
both lungs
together left to use.
Dick is a man of tremendous faith and God has
and still is
rewarding him. We all should have this kind of
faith!
This page is dedicated to our Heavenly Father.
Praise You, our Precious Father for Your many
blessings.
Delilah M. (Dede) Haas
1-30-2008
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