My Crazy Week So Far

[Sherri]

Well, Saturday we were at a work day at our new South Campus - cleaning and tearing stuff out - I got a call that my dad had fallen and I needed to get to Adamsville quickly, which is an hour away. Eddie and I left, nasty and grungy, and headed down. By the time we got there, he was sitting up and insisted that he was fine and didn't want to go to the hospital. The EMT's had been there and had to break down the bathroom door because he was in the floor blocking the door and couldn't move so it could be opened.

Anyway, we left after a while because he seemed fine. He fell again that evening and the neighbor came and helped him up and he went to bed. He has fallen probably fifty times and never broken a bone, over the past five years. Sunday morning right before nine, I was sitting in church and someone came and got me and said to call my sister. Well, dad had been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. He couldn't walk, sit up, communicate, or anything. All the symptoms of another major stroke. I got in my car with my flashers on and hightailed it to Savannah - about an hour and ten minutes normally.

They did a bunch of tests and then transferred him up here to the Jackson hospital. Meanwhile, Scott and Jan (brother & sister) drove down together and my daughter and her husband came. They have run EKGs, CT scans, MRI, a ton of bloodwork, and everything came back ok except he was severely dehydrated which made his BP almost non-existent. Once they pumped him full of IV fluids for three days, he was a happy camper, back to his old silly self.

I had no idea that WATER was so important to your body functions!!! They told us that severe dehydration always presents as stroke symptoms. Thank the Lord he is now watered and full -- just hoping he will stay that way!

So I've had a house full of company, ran back and forth to the hospital a gazillion times, and tried to keep some work done at church. It's been crazy. But I drove them home to Adamsville this evening and he is in bed, so I feel so thankful. It could have been so much worse.

And thanks to everyone who saw all this on FB and prayed for him!!