Virgie is back in West Virginia now.  Larry has been given about a 60
percent chance of recovering.  Even then, the doctor said, it will be only
because he wants to.  He was moved into another care unit in this hospital
but he is now sedated around the clock.  His respiration's are only 10 to 11
per minute.  Normal is 20 or so.  This is with the ventilator and his trake
tube.  They are now turning the oxygen up more and more because he isn't
breathing enough. Virgie was able to talk to him before they sedated him but
he could only shake his head and squeeze her hand.  She asked him several
questions and said, you don't want to die, do you?  He shook his head no and
she asked the question about three different times in three different ways.
I knew when Larry went to Mississippi, as ill as he was, that he was going
there to die.  I love Larry very much but I don't believe he is born again.
He has been totally unable to communicate since he went into the I C U down
there.  I talked to him on about the 26 or 27 of December when he went into
the hospital.  He was on oxygen at the time and he could hardly breathe.  I
knew in my spirit that Larry was calling to say goodbye for the last time.
The only way I know to pray now is that somehow, in some miraculous way, the
Lord would give Larry one more chance to hear the gospel.  That means, in my
way of thinking, either the Lord himself will have to go and talk to him or
send one of his angels to communicate the truth to him.  It is a very
strange way to pray but it is all he's got now because he is basically in a
coma.  I've had several friends die in the last 10 years and some I am not
certain were born again.  One was my best friend, too.  I am pretty certain
he was born again but it wasn't like I didn't try because he had heard me
preach and I had witnessed to him more than once.  It is extremely difficult
to see a friend die that you are pretty certain is not born again.  He could
live for weeks the way he is now but I doubt he will ever recover.

Phil.