Although she was breathing fine on her own, the doctors asked for my permission to electively intubate her. They wanted to do this because they were concerned she wasn’t awake enough to protect her airway. They were concerned that she was going to aspirate on the blood in her mouth and throat. So, by myself, I made the hard decision to intubate her. They also told me that she wasn’t creating urine and that her kidneys were shutting down. They needed to put in a dialysis line so they could run dialysis. They said the right side of her heart wasn’t working properly and in return was causing congestion in her liver. So many scary things were thrown at me and I was told by nurses and doctors that this might be the end of Mom’s journey here on earth.
I was encouraged to call the family to come to New Orleans so they could be close. Although I was with Mom from 10am-6pm yesterday, I only got a good 30 minutes of alone time with her because her day was spent surrounded by doctors. I spent the whole thirty minutes praying over her body and asking the Lord to speak life into each one of her organs. I begged Him to heal her. I begged Him to give me more time with her.
By the time 6PM came around and I was kicked out of the ICU, I could hardly walk to the Brent house hotel that’s connected to the hospital. I was emotionally and physically drained. I spent the day alone, trying to process what a life without my Mom would look like and it was tragic and heartbreaking. I just don’t know how we got here.
Mom is still very critical. She is in no way out of woods, but she did have some slight improvement overnight. She has started to produce some urine and her blood work looks slightly better. Her INR came down and is in a good place. We are thankful for any improvement no matter how small it is. Overnight her lactic acid jumped up which can be a sign of sepsis. They have started her on different antibiotics and antifungals if that’s the case. Please pray it is not though. I’m believing it’s not.
Today’s plan is to start dialysis to help her kidneys out. We need to give them a break and make sure she doesn’t have a build up of toxins. The nurse told us that she is on the lowest ventilator setting and that they extubate people on that setting all the time.
Please pray for her y’all. More now than ever. Yesterday was so grim. It was awful. I need my Mom, my sisters need their Mom, my kids need their Lollie and our family needs a happy ending. For the next few days we will be staying down in New Orleans to be close to her.
Please pray that we see significant improvement through today and tonight. My Mom needs a miracle. If you know her story, you know the Lord has done it more than once before. He’s made ways when there was no way. He’s healed her body when every doctor said it was impossible. I’m standing here in full faith that he’s going to do it again. Will you please stand with me?
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