POST FROM BAYLOR HOSPITAL IN DALLAS

JUST A QUICK ONE. MY NEPHEW'S EYES WERE OPEN WHEN HIS MOM GOT HERE THIS MORNING BUT ONLY FOR A LITTLE WHILE. THEY FOUND BY X-RAY THAT HIS LUNGS HAD NOT RE-INFLATED AS WELL AS THE DR THOUGHT THEY SHOULD...A QUICK CHECK FOUND THAT HE WAS LAYING ON HIS CHEST TUBE AND KINKING IT. (DEAR GOSH)..WITHIN 1/2 HOUR OF THE DR FIXING IT THE LUNGS HAD EXPANDED TO FILL HALF OF THE SPACE THEY HAD HOPED. THIS WILL GIVE HIM MORE O2 GOING INTO HIS SYSTEM.

I JUST GOT DONE SITTING BY HIS BED AND TOLD HIM ALL ABOUT THE DINNER THAT HIS FAMILY JUST BROUGHT UP, THAT WE WOULD HAVE ANOTHER DINNER WHEN HE GOT HOME, HOW THE CHICKENS ARE DOING, ABOUT THE STORM LAST NIGHT...EVERYTHING I COULD THINK OF TALKING ABOUT. I WANT HIM TO REMEMBER ME TALKING TO HIM.

THE NEXT X-RAY SHOWED THAT HE IS RESPONDING TO THE MEDS AND HIS LUNGS ARE BEGINNING TO CLEAR SOME. THEY ARE GOING TO WAIT UNTIL THEY CLEAR FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS AND THEY THEY WILL BEGIN TO TRY TO WEAN HIM OFF OF THE BREATHING MACHINE. THEY WILL KEEP HIM SEDATED DURING THIS.

MY PRAYERS ARE FOR MY GOD TO WRAP HIM UP IN HIS ARMS WHILE WE ARE UNABLE TO...TO PROVIDE TO HIM STRENGTH THAT MICHAEL IS TOO WEAK TO FIND HIMSELF...TO CONTINUE TO FILL UP MY SISTER SO THAT SHE WILL NOT "RUN DRY" AS EVERY DAY SHE GIVES SO MUCH OF HERSELF. THAT FILLING UP CAN ONLY COME FROM GOD.

I KNOW ALREADY THOUGH THAT GOD IS ALREADY DOING THOSE THINGS. BUT YOU KNOW ME....I HAVE TO ASK. THANK YOU ALL AGAIN FOR YOUR PRAYERS.