On February 3rd, we got a text first thing in the morning from Gary.
He had tried to text us around midnight a few times and then tried to call around 2am. We didn't hear the phone so in the morning Rick called and found out that Gary had gone to the hospital Friday night with a bowel obstruction. This is the third or fourth time this has happened because of all of the scar tissue from his surgeries. It caused him tremendous pain and he could not keep anything down.
The hospital staff helped to keep him comfortable with morphine.
The bad thing was that he could not eat or drink until it got resolved. (ice chips only)
The surgeon suggested that if it didn't resolve itself, (which it has done in the past) than he would have to have surgery to remove part of his lower intestine and part of his colon. We immediately asked our families to pray for him because we certainly did not want to have THAT happen! We even asked our baptist friends to put him on their prayer list. We were so grateful when by Sunday afternoon he seemed to be doing much better. By Monday afternoon they allowed him some soft foods and after he ate a good lunch they released him.
We were so thankful his body was able to start functioning properly!
Here's a cute picture of him. He gave me half a smile but was NOT feeling it!
We 💗 our Gary boy!
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