I came home early.  April, so relieved that you got through the most critical part.  One breath at the time, my friend.  (((hugs)))

For April, Niecey, and Our Sisterhood:

"Bear you one another's burdens."  In some deeply profound way, to bear one another's burdens matters even when miles and miles separate us.   One does not have to be a Christian to know that this is true.
 
When reviews came out for "The Return of the King" there were movie critics who confessed that they were not prepared for how deeply they were affected by Sam bearing Frodo's burden as he carried Frodo up Mount Doom.  At the time I was teaching the most jaded teens I had ever taught, sophomores in a vocational school.   I was stunned when these fifteen year old boys did not talk about the heroics, the battle scenes, the
warrior king, etc.  What they wanted was to have friendship like the friendship between Frodo and Sam. They wanted to be burden bearers,; they wanted friends who would be burden bearers for others.  What our sisterhood has become and continues to becoming is wonderful and amazing in that April was courageous to reached out and we have banded together around her and niecey.  And though I rarely post, I do check in on a daily basis, and this is what I have noticed.  The burden sharing and burden bearing also happens with other sisters. 



 

Last edited by KeepOnSinging (6/25/2017 9:55 pm)

Hi guys (((((hugs)))))  thank you sooooooo much for the hand holding and prayers....they have just gotten her settled in a new room in the cardiac ICU......things have settled down some now and she is resting comfortably......what happend is when they got the results from the MRI it showed a large fluid effusion (build up of fluid) in the sac around her  heart....the bigger problem was that is was on the back side of her heart and surrounding the main artery into her heart cutting off blood flow and causing her blood pressure to drop.....they couldn't go in and just put a simple drain in because of where it was located so they had to open a window into her chest and cut a small window into the pericardium to allow it to drain quickly.....they actually called me in the hall and said "the fluid is building at a rate that if we don't do this now by tomorrow or the next day it will cut the blood flow off completely and cause a heart attack which she won't survive....this is the only way to save her life, but when the fluid drains out and the blood rushes back in it could cause an attack then as well".....I was never so scared in my life as when I signed that paper and in only about 30 minutes we were being rushed down the hall to the O.R, vent and all with a team of 8 ICU personnel to make sure there were no problems on the way.....but God is good and she handled it amazingly well.......and made the transfer to the new room smoothly....you are all so amazing that even when I didn't have time to fully explain....you all heard a sisters cry for help and came running with the love and prayers and hand holding .....it means more to me than I can ever express....I will update you all more tomorrow  (((((group hugs)))))  

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Last edited by april6263 (6/26/2017 1:29 am)

gabriele wrote:

april6263 wrote:

Hi guys (((((hugs)))))  thank you sooooooo much for the hand holding and prayers....they have just gotten her settled in a new room in the cardiac ICU......things have settled down some now and she is resting comfortably......what happend is when they got the results from the MRI it showed a large fluid effusion (build up of fluid) in the sac around her  heart....the bigger problem was that is was on the back side of her heart and surrounding the main artery into her heart cutting off blood flow and causing her blood pressure to drop.....they couldn't go in and just put a simple drain in because of where it was located so they had to open a window into her chest and cut a small window into the pericardium to allow it to drain quickly.....they actually called me in the hall and said "the fluid is building at a rate that if we don't do this now by tomorrow or the next day it will cut the blood flow off completely and cause a heart attack which she won't survive....this is the only way to save her life, but when the fluid drains out and the blood rushes back in it could cause an attack then as well".....I was never so scared in my life as when I signed that paper and in only about 30 minutes we were being rushed down the hall to the O.R, vent and all with a team of 8 ICU personnel to make sure there were no problems on the way.....but God is good and she handled it amazingly well.......and made the transfer to the new room smoothly....you are all so amazing that even when I didn't have time to fully explain....you all heard a sisters cry for help and came running with the love and prayers and hand holding .....it means more to me than I can ever express....I will update you all more tomorrow  (((((group hugs)))))  

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Thanks for the update, April!  I've been waiting for it eagerly.  You are amazing....   finding the energy to write it up after such a day.  Mummabear, I'm thinking that your strength carries both you and Niecey through on such a day. Niecey will have to write that book the she has been thinking about.  Way too much she has been through already though.....    Hope she can be comfortable for the moment and gather a little strength again.  Keep us posted when you can, Love.   xox 
 

View from the Crow's Nest wrote:

gabriele wrote:

april6263 wrote:

Hi guys (((((hugs)))))  thank you sooooooo much for the hand holding and prayers....they have just gotten her settled in a new room in the cardiac ICU......things have settled down some now and she is resting comfortably......what happend is when they got the results from the MRI it showed a large fluid effusion (build up of fluid) in the sac around her  heart....the bigger problem was that is was on the back side of her heart and surrounding the main artery into her heart cutting off blood flow and causing her blood pressure to drop.....they couldn't go in and just put a simple drain in because of where it was located so they had to open a window into her chest and cut a small window into the pericardium to allow it to drain quickly.....they actually called me in the hall and said "the fluid is building at a rate that if we don't do this now by tomorrow or the next day it will cut the blood flow off completely and cause a heart attack which she won't survive....this is the only way to save her life, but when the fluid drains out and the blood rushes back in it could cause an attack then as well".....I was never so scared in my life as when I signed that paper and in only about 30 minutes we were being rushed down the hall to the O.R, vent and all with a team of 8 ICU personnel to make sure there were no problems on the way.....but God is good and she handled it amazingly well.......and made the transfer to the new room smoothly....you are all so amazing that even when I didn't have time to fully explain....you all heard a sisters cry for help and came running with the love and prayers and hand holding .....it means more to me than I can ever express....I will update you all more tomorrow  (((((group hugs)))))  

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Thanks for the update, April!  I've been waiting for it eagerly.  You are amazing....   finding the energy to write it up after such a day.  Mummabear, I'm thinking that your strength carries both you and Niecey through on such a day. Niecey will have to write that book the she has been thinking about.  Way too much she has been through already though.....    Hope she can be comfortable for the moment and gather a little strength again.  Keep us posted when you can, Love.   xox 
 

 

April...I too was so happy and revealed when I read your update just now...I must have dozed off about 1 am  this morning waiting to see if you happened to pop in and you did right after I fell asleep...I am so glad they did the MRI and found this problem and were successful in their procedures...Gods hands were guiding them every step of the way...I hope you are able to get some much needed rest yourself...Thank you for taking the time to continually update us on Niecey...We will always be there when you are any of the sisters need us....Together is the only way we roll....HUGS my dear friend to you, Niecey and your family...