Sandy,

I am dilligently praying for John, that the bleeding stops, or has 
already stopped, by now. Heart surgery is a very hard surgery on any, 
and I do mean any, patient.


LOVE,
Reeva Parry.


On Monday 4/9/2007 12:45 PM, Sandy Scovell said:

>I have now learned that the reason he is still alive is of course 
>because of the Lord.  However, the surgeon explained to Vicki that 
>the aneurysm was very large and so it had kind of walled itself off 
>to keep much leakage from occurring.  Miraculous.  I have also 
>learned that it is a left ventricular aneurysm.  The ventricle is 
>one of the chambers in the heart.  I have done two other cases of 
>this since I have been transcribing and those two didn't make it.
>
>I have also learned that John's heart began acting very erratic 
>prior to surgery.  \he is on Coumadin which keeps the blood from 
>coagulating.  They usually reverse this with Vitamin K.  However, 
>because his heart was so erratic they went ahead and started the 
>procedure without reversing the Coumadin.  This is why there is a 
>lot of bleeding.  I am asking everyone with great diligence to 
>please pray against this bleeding.  It is very important that they 
>get it under control.
>
>Sandy