As a lot of you know, my younger (58) brother has been in the Medical ICU at Huntsville Hospital for the past 2 1/2 weeks, and has been in the hospital 10 out of the last 11 weeks altogether. It started out in May as a kidney infection that caused him to lose a kidney six weeks ago. Its been downhill since then - the remaining kidney doesn't seem to want to work, so he's on dialysis five hours a day. He has a yeast infection in his bloodstream, caused by the antibiotics used to keep down infection. He had a cantelope-sized psuedo-anuerysm (sp?) (docs also called it a hematoma) in his right thigh caused from blood seepage when they removed a pair of temporary dialysis catheters to install more permanent ones. His right lung has collapsed twice in the past two weeks and they think it is getting plugged by mucus, but they are having trouble getting that out since he has no lung muscles due to his paralysis at age 14 (1965),and almost cannot cough at all.
Today he told me that he is tired of fighting, tired of being sick and tied into machines that tell him when to breathe, pee, poop, etc. In short, he wants to quit. It'll be the first time he's ever give up in his life. He can't envision going back home and living the life he did just three months ago, since the docs say he'll require dialysis 3X week (to start) for the rest of his life. He's gonna talk to our Mom in the hospital tomorrow morning and then he will decide whether to discontinue all further medical treatment.
My family and I would appreciate any prayers, good wishes or kind thoughts that y'all can spare for Jon 'Rump' Edmonds. I'd sure like to keep him around a while longer............
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Bama Red"
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