I am over 400 messages behind now on this newsgroup, rest of them I just marked read and forgot about, but not this one.
My best friend's nephew died around 11:15 AM on Saturday. He was 33 years old, had a 3 yr. old daughter and had just built a new house. About a month ago he started having problems and they found a 5 cm brain tumor. So they set him up to have two 12 hours surgeries. Two weeks ago Friday he had the first one, the next day he developed pneumonia, a blood clot and every time they tried to pull the vent his throat would collaspe. Thursday night I was talking to my friend and he was telling me they finally got him off the vent, pneumonia was almost gone but he could not talk nor use one leg and they moved him out of ICU. They planned on sending him to Cardianal Hill here in KY for rehabitation before doing the second surgery and if all went well that was going to happen yesterday, which is still today for me. Anyway Friday he had a massive stroke to the brain stem and was left brain dead, anyway they had to put him back on the vent when the stroke first happened, of course at this time, they did not know the extent of the stroke. They did an EEG Friday and it was a flat line, they did another one Saturday morning, also flat lined. So around
10:50 AM they removed the vent and he died within 25 minutes.I know this does not deal with my immediate family but it is my best friend's nephew, he is torn to pieces as is his grandmother and parents and sister. The grandmother has already lost 3 children, and her husband, she is 80 years old and this is really tough on her. This is very rare to happen even in a small town but this family is an extraorniary family and this death had touched the entire community. Brian, the young man that passed away, his father is in very poor health and we have been expecting him to go on for about six months now, his sister is pregnant and ready to deliever any day. Although I realize there is a reason for everything, it still hurts to lose anyone and I am really worried about the family members. Oh an my friend was to have surgery on Tuesday, which will now have to be canceled.
Brian was a Christian and a deacon in his church, so I know he is in a much better place but he has left a lot of loved ones behind that are just beside themselves with grief, naturally.
I am asking if you are a praying person that you pray for this family. They have a rough road a head of them.
This is also the reason I have not been around much the last two days. Like I said I am over 400 posts behind.
I really appreciate your all's prayers. Jacqueline