Fighting for her Life

 I’m keeping this one short. In the last 48 hours, Ruth’s condition turned for the worst. The adenovirus is in the blood, lungs, and colon and she developed ARDS- when protein fluid spills into the air sacs. This is similar to what happened to all the COVID patients who went to the icu early in the COVID days. She is now on a ventilator with high ventilator settings and needing 2 medicines to keep her blood pressure raised for septic shock. There’s not much room to budge left. I thought she might not make it through the night but she has now stabilized somewhat with a little more room to budge. 

Her life truly is in God’s hands at the moment, and the hands of the doctors and nurses who are vigilantly an valiantly taking care of her. We can only continue to pray and hope for recovery. I know regardless of outcome, Ruth will be where she needs to be, whether with me/us or her Maker.

I probably won’t post for a while. Many people are texting. I found myself half responding to texts, half actually being present for Ruth. So today I will limit my responses and just be with her and family. I think I’ll also be limiting visitors to mostly family for now as well.