Phil,
I'm so glad you are home now. I've been praying for you, and Vernon said he
is glad you are home, also.
I can relate to some of what you mentioned, when I was in the hospital with
pneumonia in April of 2002. I was scared, also. I had a lot of anxiety the
day I got out of the hospital and after that.
I'm praying for much rest for you and Sandy. I'm praying for anxiety releif
for both you and Sandy.
Blessings.
Lovingly,
Pat Ferguson
At 02:00 PM 11/21/03 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
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