[willowbrook] Charles Cook

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   TO ALL FRIENDS AND FAMILY,

JUST SPOKE WITH MY MOM A FEW MINUTES AGO ABOUT DAD'S PROGRESS.  HE HASN'T

MADE MUCH PROGRESS TODAY.  ALL OF HIS BLOOD TESTS FOR THE PROBLEMS THEY ARE

TREATING HAVE NOT CHANGED IN THE LAST 24HOURS.  HIS BLOOD PRESSURE HAS BEEN

 HIGH EVEN AFTER GIVING HIM MEDICATION .  THEY TOOK HIM OFF THE HEPARIN THIS

AFTERNOON, BUT MOM SAID SHE NEVER GOT AN ANSWER AS TO WHY.  SHE THEN FOUND

 OUT THAT THEY HAD GIVEN HIM BLOOD LAST EVENING.  DIDN'T TELL HER HOW MANY
UNITS,

JUST THAT HE HAD RECEIVED BLOOD.


 HE WAS HAVING A BETTER DAY YESTERDAY, BUT HE IS VERY DOWN TODAY. HE WANTS
SO

DESPERATELY TO HAVE MY MOTHER BY HIS SIDE.  I KNOW SHE WANTS TO BE WITH HIM

ALSO.  WE DON'T THINK WE ARE GETTING ENOUGH CURRENT INFORMATION ON HIM SINCE

 WE CAN'T SEE HIM BUT ONLY 4 TIMES A DAY.  IF YOU MISS THE DOCTORS VISIT,
THEN WE

ARE LEFT A LITTLE IN THE DARK ABOUT HIS SITUATION


SHE IS GOING BACK IN TO SEE HIM AT 1AM THURSDAY MORNING.  I WILL TALK TO HER

SHORTLY AFTER THAT.  I PLAN TO GO TOMORROW MORNING AND GIVE HER SOME

SUPPORT.  SHE IS VERY WORRIED ABOUT THE EVENTS OF TODAY.


CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THEM BOTH AND TO GIVE THEM COMFORT DURING THIS TIME.


LOVE YOU ALL,

CHRISTI



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Subject: [willowbrook] Charles Cook


Friends and Family,

First of all, thank you for all the prayers, cards, and phone calls you have
showered my parents with since my father's illness.  They both appreciate
all that you are doing for them to help out in their time of need.

My mom has taken my dad to Carraway ER tonight. He woke Saturday morning
with terrible pain across the abdomen.  They pain has only increased as the
day has gone by.  The Dr. on call wanted him to go to the ER here, but my
dad wanted to be in Birmingham where his Dr.'s are just in case they decided
to admit him to the hospital.

It is now Sunday morning, about 12:40.  I just spoke with my mom. They are
propping him for a CAT scan of the abdomen.  The nurses just finished giving
him a shot of Demerol and have put a NG tube in.  Mom says they are hoping
that it is only a gallstone, and not a perforation in the gallbladder.  That
could be very serious.  More than likely he will have his gallbladder
removed, just pray that it is not perforated.
Test also show his pancreas to be inflamed as well as a high bilirubin
count.  I noticed this morning his eyes were looking a bit yellow, but
didn't think much of it due to all the medication and the daily TPN.

I will probably go early in the morning depending on what the CAT scan
shows.  I will call if I hear of anything different if I don't have access
to a computer.

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