Lifting Up Dad From Our Knees.....: short evening update...

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

short evening update...

Met with the Neurologist tonight. He showed us the CT scan. The body is such an amazing thing. It was really wild to see the "shift". The doctor really cant determine anything right now until the swelling comes down. He said that this could be another week. At least that is the hope. In the mean time, we just wait and hope that it doesnt increase anymore. More in the morning...

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Anonymous said...: Just a reminder: God is watching over the Maley family and the Moser's are praying for a miracle for Jim and strength for the family! Keep your chin up, God IS faithful! Our prayers and thoughts will be with you!
Jen and Joel Moser; January 31, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...: Our thoughts and prayers are with you every hour of the day. Stay strong!!!
Love,
Morgan and Jarrad Gettys; January 31, 2007 at 9:00 PM
Anonymous said...: I love this song, and I have been praying it for you this week. I hope it encourages you like it always does me.

"I will worship You in the midnight hour.
I will worship You when I'm in the fire.
I will worship You when all hope seems gone.
I will stand and proclaim that You are my God.
I will worship You.

I know that You are strong.
I know You're more than able
To save me from whatever
Ever comes my way.
I know You are a healer.
I know You can deliver.
I know that You can rescue me.
But even when I cannot see Your hand
When You move in a way
That I would not have planned
Still I will worship You."

We're so thankful for your faith and your trust in the Lord even in really hard days and midnight hours. Thanks for sharing your hearts during this time and for how your lives are touching so many others. In our prayers,
Ron and Minda; January 31, 2007 at 11:49 PM
Anonymous said...: To the entire Maley family,
We are friends of Michelle Petrey who have been through some very similiar yet different circumstances. Michelle sent me a prayer message and your blog so I hope you don't mind me reading and responding. I am here to tell you that you have hope and lots of hope! Our story I will keep short, but offer so you know we have been in similiar shoes. Our 10 yr old daughter had a brain abscess attack on 2 different occassions. She was in the pediatric ICU for 30 days and in a drug induced coma for over over a week. She is fine now and with Michelle's help is back swimming competitively and living a normal life.

My hope in this message is to give you some faith and insight about the potential road ahead.

I agree with your doctors that if you get caught up in the numbers on a daily basis it will drive you crazy. These are their numbers which they use as a measurement for future treatment. It doesn't mean a thing when he is recovered. It only caused us to worry more about things we can't control. Trust they know what they are doing and modern medicine is an amazing thing.

Believe he knows you are there and can hear you. Our daughter months after would say things like, "dad remember when...." when she was in a coma. I don't understand it, but he knows you are there!

Learn to celebrate the successes and forget the rest. This is a long, and I mean long recovery. The body does amazing things, especially when in a coma state. Typically,they have taken away all the tasks the brain needs to worry about except to heal. This is good, even as hard as it is to accept. Every positive moment, every new day, is another day he is healing. Celebrate this!

Lastly, learn the hardest lesson. There is not much we can do but have faith and pray to help him. This is the most helpless any of us will ever feel, but all we can do is rely on modern medicine and GOD!

We are praying for him and your entire family. I hope this information helps and remember to stay strong as a family. He can feel if not hear you. He needs you!

God Bless

Kevin and Betsy Smith; February 1, 2007 at 12:58 AM
Anonymous said...: Maley family just wanted you to know I pray for you all on a daily basis.
I wish I could be there to help out with something. You all were our second family. I love you guys very much. GOD is good and he is watching over all of you. I will continue to pray for all of you, if there is anything I can do please let me know.
Love always,
Amy and Isaiah; February 1, 2007 at 8:26 AM

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The story as we know it...

On Friday morning (Jan. 19th) around 10:50am, i recieved a call from my brother Joe telling me that he needed me at the house. I asked him what for and he told me that dad had hurt himself somehow...he had a black eye, his nose was bleeding and was "a little beat up". I immediatly got into my car and started heading that way. I called Joe back and asked him for more details and he told me that he was having a hard time getting dad up. I told him to call the EMS and he said that he thought Jason had already done that and he was on his way. When i pulled up, i saw the EMS was already there. I walked in and i saw Jason, Anna, Joe and several EMS people along with dad sitting on a gurney. They imediately took dad out in the EMS...not knowing what was wrong...just that something really wasnt right. We followed the EMS to parkview ER and had to go wait. Mom met us there as she flew across town to get there. We had to wait a long time (it seemed like days!) before we were told what was going on. The chaplain kept coming out to "brief"us...but thats all it was, a "brief". Finally, the ER doctor called the family together and told us the news...dad has a broken neck and he is bleeding in and on his brain on both sides....this is very serious. "Its a bad deal" the ER doc kept on saying, but we had to wait until the surgeon would come in and take a look at the CT scan before we could find out for certian what was wrong. Dr. Young finally came in and said that he had looked at dad and his scan. Dr. Young was very "matter of fact" with us which was good. We needed that! He told us very similar things to what the ER doctor told us. He said that dad had broke his neck, C2 to be exact. He also said that he was bleeding in several areas in his brain. He needed brain surgury immediatly. On a scale of one to ten...with ten being the worst...dad was a "plus 10". Dad went into surgury and was there for 3.5 hours or so...he came out of surgury fine but we found out the damage was worse than they had thought. They had to remove some of the damaged area and he would be on life support. We were told that the next 3-10 days are life and death...or very critical. What we think what happend is something as follows: Dad was sleeping down in the basement which is a normal thing. Between 8:30am and 10:30am, he tried going upstairs. This info is a little sketchy because we werent there, but based on some of the info that we have seen, we think that he tripped on the stair going up and fell...hitting his right eye on the stereo and then hitting face first on the ground. This created the damage that we are aware of. We spoke with the cardiologist today and found out that dad has also had a heart attack with in the last eight days, but they have not figured out exactly when. There is a thought that this might have caused the fall be we are uncertain. Dad is in stable but "second to second" condition. If and when dad comes out of the "coma" state, there will likely be many months of therapy that needs to be done, plus until the brain issues are resolved, they can not even think about looking at his broken neck. To sum it all up...dad is in very bad condition. We thank you all for all of your prayers and support and all of the food and gifts. Your love for my dad and our family is amazing and we are extremely grateful. We will continue to update you as we know more. Please continue to pray!! Pray for dad (jim) for healing. Pray for mom (sue) that she can continue to be strong. We do know that we most likely havent seen the worst yet. This is when we need your prayers the most. Please feel free to enter your thoughts on this blogspot as we will update you as we know more. We are very thankful for the love you all have shown.

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