Mama's Cousin Kim

A quick post to ask for your prayers.

My mom's cousin Kim went into surgery a couple of weeks ago for a herniated disc (or some other fairly routine procedure relating to a disc) in her back and the surgeon knicked her spinal cord. She spent days in the hospital with spinal fluid leaking, and then were unable to do an MRI or CT scan to find out where the leak was coming from. So they had to go back in for a blind surgery to find the leak. They found there were actually two places that needed fixing, so they took care of it and after recovery she headed home.

My mom just called and she was admitted back into the hospital this morning for various issues - fluid and blood leaking from the incision, pain from her back all the way down her legs (blood clots), excrutiating pain that has not subsided since the first surgery, the list goes on.

On top of all of this, she is diabetic and cannot be on her meds with all the other medication they have her on right now, so that's only complicating things further.

My mom has been able to be a source of strength for her aunt (Kim's mother) in all of this as my mom went through a similar situation - major complications from surgery - with my dad before I was born. The doctors will not return my Great Aunt's phone calls, she can't get answers, which has to be the hardest part.

Please pray for strength for the family and that God will give my Great Aunt the words and discernment she needs in order to ask the right questions. She deserves to be told what's going on, and while now is not the time to talk about lawsuits, my mom is trying to stress to her the importance of keeping documentation of everything going on.

Thanks for your prayers and support.

On another note, internet has been bunk for the past couple of weeks at home, which means no blogs with all my new pictures. There will be a mondo post coming soon....once the Time Warner nazis get our internet fixed.