Ken Is In The Hospital Again!!

Ken is in the hospital again in Muskogee Regional with a blood clot in his left lung!! Thursday evening he began coughing and having severe pain in his chest. My son-in-law, Mark, was here when this all happened and he & Jeffrey helped me get Ken in the car to take to the hospital. He seemed to be having problems in his lung and we thought he might have pneumonia. I started driving toward Muskogee and got almost to Eufaula and the pain in Ken's chest was so severe that he was screaming in pain and I thought he was having a heart attack. I put on my flashers and drove through Eufaula extremely fast passing everyone in the way and got him to the Eufaula Hospital. They determined he was not having a heart attack but knew something was definitely going on. The nitro they gave him did no good so they said they needed to send him to Muskogee if they had a bed in ICU. I am a member of Air Evac and told them that I wanted Ken lift-flighted by helicopter (which Mark had already alerted Air Evac). Ken had his first ride in a helicopter ambulance. The paramedics were wonderful and Ken said that ride was so much better than the ones he had had to take by ground ambulance.

Ken is still in ICU and will remain there through the weekend. We didn't find out until last night at 6:30 what was wrong with him. They pain has subsided somewhat, but he is still in pain when he takes a deep breath or coughs. They have him on blood thinners to dissolve the clot. He had all kinds of test taken all night Thursday night and all day yesterday. I will find out the results of the cat scans, etc. today I hope.

After being up all night Thursday night (except for sleeping about three hours in my car and many times dozing off in a straight-backed chair in his hospital room) I was exhausted and came home last night to get some sleep. I slept for about 4 hours and then become wide awake so thought I would update everyone on Ken's condition. Please keep him in your prayers and he desperately needs them. Thank you so much. God bless you all.

Mary Ellen

P.S. I received a wonderful praise report yesterday on my voice mail from my friend, Barbara, that I had requested prayer for concerning cervical cancer. Praise God that her test came back negative for cancer. Thank you, Lord for answered prayer!

Also, I received a call from my granddaughter, Andrea, yesterday morning with the announcement that Ken and I were going to become great grandparents for the first time in about 7-1/2 months! That means Karen will be a grandmother. Oh my goodness, are we old enough to be great grandparents?!? Probably not, but we're going to be and are excited!