You rest, sleep, don't worry about mistakes in a message!!!!  we are
praying for the both of you.
Glad you are home!
Rhonda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 1:00 PM
Subject: home


> Thanks for all your prayers.  Being home today is very nice but I have
a
> long ways too go yet with lots of antibiotics and steroids for the
> pneumonia.  In the last four days, I have slept maybe 10 hours.  My
ears
> feel like I have balloons in them but the wheezing in my lungs from
the
> pneumonia literally was so loud when I would breath out, it was
keeping me
> awake.  It was very strange noises, too.  Sometimes it sounded like a
> musical band playing inside my chest and translating up into my throat
and
> into my ears.  The first night it kept me awake all night. literally
all
> night, I finally called a nurse to come at 2:30 in the morning to
listen to
> my lungs.  After listening to it I said, Are you hearing the same
thing I am
> hearing in my lungs.  She said yes and that everybody with this flue
and
> with pneumonia had it.  That noise has reduced by about 90 percent
now,
> thank the Lord, and I am able to sleep for a few hours at a time
without it
> awakening me.  I have a great deal of back pain because no matter how
hard I
> tried adjusting that bed, I could never find a spot and often spent
many
> hours sitting up or getting out of bed to sit in a recliner.  I last
several
> days in time and although I knew all that was going on, it was like
living
> in a daze with everything but a small part of your mind shut down.
Even
> writing this message has so many mistakes I have had to go back and
fix, it
> must be my mind is still so tired, it is still partly shut down.  I
fell at
> the house before going to the hospital and received very painful
injuries
> but I never relies I had them until I was at the hospital.  John
Ireland,
> Vicki's husband, came and picked me up today and brought me home and
ran
> some other prescriptions to the store for me.  John, and many others,
were a
> big help to me and to Sandy this week.  I was laying in bed the other
night
> thinking how my experience seemed to be bringing a group of people
together
> but I will explain more about that later.  Thank you all very much for
> praying for me because I had not been that ill since I was a teenager
and it
> was a very scary experience for an old guy like me.
>
> Phil.