Agenda for this years annual conference in Tifton

Agenda

Dorothy Goodley is having knee replacement surgery today at CRMC. She began the day in room 503 and I assume she will return their to recuperate after the surgery. Please keep her in your prayers.

He is Risen

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From Billy McIntosh
Fri, Apr 22, 2011 6:22 AM
Day 27: Happy Good Friday! It is definitely a great day. We should be discharged by around noon today. The nurses are working up the discharge paperwork, etc. now. Cathy had a great night last night! Will update once we are officially out of here!

Update on Cathy from Billy

Thu, Apr 21, 2011 8:34 AM
Cathy has been taken back for the surgery as of 1030 this morning. She was excited and nervous at the same time. We have a list of questions to ask her Dr once he is finished. If Any of you think of anything we need to ask we will add it to our list. The procedure should take about an hour and a half. Look for a post op post around noon!

Please keep Grant Bell in your prayers. He was in an accident involving a tractor today where he was run over by the rear tires. He has several compression fractures but there is no damage to the spinal cord. He will be bruised and sore so please remember his recovery in your prayers.
Hale

Update on Cathy McIntosh's MRI and upcoming surgery. She should be home by Friday:
Wed, Apr 20, 2011 8:56 AM
Cathy made it through the two hour mri last night. She had A little trouble at first but made it through. Dr. K visited us this morning and told us that the MRI results were negative. This rules out the ARVD. This now leads them to believe that we are dealing with one of a half dozen inherited heart diseases. Cathy will participate in Familion Genetic Testing for Inherited Cardiac Syndromes. Included in this list is the Long QT Syndrome that was discussed a few weeks back. The testing will take several weeks to receive the results. At this point, the medical team will assess if medications will be necessary and the testing/screening required for Cara, John, etc. The AICD procedure is scheduled for first procedure in the morning. We should be home Friday morning. I am glad they are doing this testing. I hope that we can figure out what it is and get other family members tested and evaluated.

who is this Jesus

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Please keep Marilyn Berry in your prayers. She is in Colquit Regional with pneumonia.

redemption 4/10/11

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Meg update
Tube out home today
Praise the Lord!!!!

Today is truly miraculous. The morning started with Paige getting here first around 8am. By Paiges' account, Cathy was wide awake and signing letters to her. She was spelling her name and asking about people, etc. She is full of her personality and communicating unbelievably. Dr Allen and dr price were stunned when she started signing. John and I arrived around 11 and it is truly a sight to see. She is gesturing with her hands, mouthing words, laughing, crying, smiling. She has asked what happened. We have tried to give her just bits and pieces without upsetting her too much. She definitely knows where she is now but doesn't really recall the weekend in Atlanta before it happened. I think she gets a little emotional when she can't remember what happened. We are letting her rest now but she is definitely calling the shots regarding what she wants and when she wants it. Turns out that the new People magazine has a story that is very similar to hers ( cardiac arrest 32 yr old female and hypothermic protocol ). The issue is dated April 18. Of course that's the date of Cathy's birthday!

Meg's surgery was successful should be home by Monday hopefully sooner.

Update on Meg,
She will have surgery to repair the hole in the lung tomorrow morning at 11:00am. We hope that you will lift her and the medical team up in your prayers.

Update on Cathy
Day 8: Evidently there was a little storm that passed through last night. I slept right thru it! Thanks to Biv for hanging out last night. Went back around 630 this morning to see Cathy. Carrie and Shellie are back today! Cathy had a good night. The morphine doses are not quite doing the trick. Cathy is still uncomfortable with the vent tube. Dr. Allen came in this morning to check on another patient (he wasnt suppose to be here today). He came in to see Cat while I was in there. I reminded him about the pushups. They couldn't get any decent images on the MRI from last night (kinda expected that). Dr. Allen told Carrie to give her adavan for the pain/discomfort from the tube. They want to try the MRI again today; however, this time he wants her on something that will make/keep her comfortable. Dr. Allen called the ENT and is having him come by late this morning to assess her for the trach procedure. We agree the trach will be the best way to make her more comfortable. The procedure can be performed at bedside. Will not know exactly when they will perform this until the ENT looks at her and we consent. She has a little fever and the just gave her some tylenol. The feeding thru the tube is going very well. They performed an ultrasound on her liver this morning to check it for something that they saw in her blood work. It sounded minor. I forgot to report this yesterday but her heart strength is much better. So the plan for the day, as of now, appears to be rest (with the help of adavan), perform MRI and discussing the trach. We discussed the transfer yesterday and it is our feeling that they want the MRI done so that they know how to determine the best placement for her regarding the transfer. Shands is still the most likely scenario at this time. Cara also had a great night! We wore her out yesterday She too slept thru the little storm. Scoot slept on Johns stomach all night when the thunder started rolling in!

Update on Meg,
We met with Dr. Brown this morning and they will do another X-ray of the lung today. Then if fully inflated we will stop the suction again and see if it stays inflated. If not we will look at surgery to fix the hole possibly on Friday. We are praying that it fixes itself and we are very comfortable with the timeline we are looking at. We certainly covet your prayers.
Thanks
Hale

Update on Meg
Ok this mornings x-ray after suction was removed last night showed the lung had dropped a little. In chronic lung collapse it takes longer to get the lung fully inflated without suction. The suction has been re applied and we will try again tomorrow. 

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sermon Moultrie FUMC 4/3/11


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Not coming home today collapsed again when suction was removed. Probably Monday. Dr. says that the month of walking around with a pnumothorax is probably the culprit. Meg is bummed. The will give her some extra pain meds. 

Cathy McIntosh is Better today. There is a site set up. WWW.caringbridge.org/visit/cathymcintosh
On this site you can keep up with her progress.