TheBanyanTree: Desperately needing your good thoughts and prayers

[Sharon Mack]

Dear Sheri,

I just sent off a note to the Tree in general but I will be more
specific in my answer to you.

My son was released from the hospital with aneurisms in tact.  There is
nothing they can do,  They have put him under 24 hour a day watch as he
convalesces at the Coast Guard station.  They are making him stay there
instead of sending him back to his apartment because he cannot be alone
right now.  He is on Plavix, Cumidan and Heprin to keep his blood
thinned and flowing through the arteries and the aneurisms freely and
past the clots that are inside the aneurisms.  Hopefully, this will keep
them from rupturing or the blood clots from breaking off and possibly
going to his brain or heart and stroking him out.

Surgery is a no-go at this time.  His condition is dangerous for
surgery at this point and because of his age, the doctors feel it would
be a last resort remedy only.

So now we wait and see.  He is in Falmouth at the Coast Guard Sation on
the Cape (Cape Cod).  He is only two hours away so I am going to be
traveling back and forth.  I am tired and he is exhausted....

But you know what the GOOD news is....HIM!  His spirits are up and he
refuses to say "die."  He is talking future plans....and if he can talk
future...so can I!  

Love to all and especially you, Sheri

Sharon

>>> "Sheri Baity" <crowfly at ptd.net> 2/19/2004 6:41:22 AM >>>
ok... it's been some time... how are things??

Hugs
Sheri

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Mack" <SMACK at berkshirecc.edu>
To: <thebanyantree-remsset.com at lists.remsset.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:11 PM
Subject: TheBanyanTree: Desperately needing your good thoughts and
prayers


> Hi!
> 
> I have been silent for a few days because I have had some very sad,
bad
> news.
> 
> My 24 year old son, who is in the Coast Guard had two heart attacks
> this past Sunday.  He is currently at Brigham Womens Hospital in
Boston.
>  I have just returned from there.  He has several aneurism with
blood
> clots inside.  They are trying to dissolve the blood clots before
going
> in to do bypass surgery.
> 
> I am at my saddest ever in my life.  I am very frightened and do not
> wish to bury a child.  This is not suppose to happen to him...it
should
> be me.
> 
> Please, please,  I covet all of your good thoughts and prayers for
my
> son.
> 
> You will not be hearing from me for awhile.
> 
> Sharon
>