Prayers for my dad

I wasn’t sure of the best place to write about this where the most people would see it, but since I know my blog posts get at least mentioned on Twitter and Facebook, I thought this might work. I’ve only really posted information about it on Twitter so far (other than one vague Facebook status), and there’s really just too much to say in 140 characters or less at this point.

So here’s the deal… for those of you that pray, please pray for my dad. And even if you don’t, if you could send some positive thoughts/energy his way, I’d appreciate it. My dad isn’t really in the greatest of health to begin with, which some of you may know. He’s had multiple strokes and has been in a wheelchair the past few years of his life. He’s on disability, and my mom is unemployed and stays home to take care of him. But recently my mom has called me on three occasions in the last week to tell me that he’s had to be taken to the hospital, for three separate reasons. The first was because of kidney stones, but the most recent time was this past Sunday, when he fell and broke his hip. He had surgery on Monday to get his hip fixed, and I took the day off of work to be at the hospital.

The doctors were a bit concerned about his surgery, mostly because of the fact that the hip he broke was the hip on the side that he’s paralyzed on. But the thought was that if the surgery went well and was successful, all would be good and he would heal and be back to normal. Well, his surgery on Monday afternoon did go well, and all was fine. But after talking to my mom the past couple of days, he’s actually not doing all that great. Yes, he made it through the surgery and it was successful, but he’s having trouble with his kidneys not working properly since then, and he’s also still in a great deal of pain and won’t eat much. My mom is exhausted and very worried about him. They’re going to probably be putting a tube down his throat so that he can take his pills (crushed) and some food. He’s still in ICU, and they thought he would only be there for the first night after his surgery. After he gets out of there, I believe the plan is to put him in a rehab center to get his hip somewhat back to normal again before sending him back home.

Anyway – again, my mom’s pretty worried and it doesn’t sound like things are really going quite as well as we had hoped after the surgery. So please – I’d appreciate your thoughts and prayers for my dad as well as my mom right now too. Thanks to all who read this!