Exhausting Day! Restful Night?

Dear friends and family,

I am very tired after being at the hospital last night til sometime in the early morning and then again all day, but want to write at least a quick update.  Thank you all for your continuing prayers.

Gary still is not feeling well.  He is running a temperature, somewhat dehydrated, at times dizzy and lightheaded, fighting a cough, and appears to have a small infection in his lungs.  They have also put him back on oxygen to help with his breathing.  Although none of these are major, because of his transplant, they want to treat it all before it gets out of hand.

Today he had a special visitor, a college friend who had a liver transplant about 9 months ago.  I think it was really good for Gary to be able to visit with him and it was also helpful for me.  It's also been good for me to have been able to talk at various times with his wife over the past few weeks. 

Things to pray for:

1) That he will finally be moved to the transplant floor and to a room by himself so that he can rest better.  He was put on the Oncology floor last night probably due to the transplant floor being full and had been told several times today that he would be moved to the transplant floor.  When I left tonight, they said he would be moving tonight or during the night.  Although the nurses on the Oncology floor have been wonderful, he is in a room with a patient who loves to talk "loudly" and is pretty much is on the telephone all the time and it has been very hard for Gary to rest.  Pray that the move will happen soon (if it has not already happened) or that if he isn't moved, that he will be able to ignore the "noise" and have a restful night of sleep.  You get frustrated with him and then all of a sudden he might say something to you that makes you realize that even in all of his "talking" he's also watching and listening, so help us to be good Christian examples to him.

2)  That the doctors will be able to help us get through this "bump" and that he will be able to eat and drink enough so that when he gets home, he won't get dehydrated again.  We've learned that the Pancreas dehydrates quickly.

3) Pray that the rest of us will also have restful sleep tonight.

Thank you all so much for your thoughts, prayers, phone calls, visits, meals, rides, etc.  They are all very appreciated.

Tomorrow is Gary's 55th birthday so I'm praying he has a wonderful day!

Love,
Nelly and family