Looking Good (With Lots of Prayer)

It was Day 40 in the hospital last Saturday.

He was re-learning walking with the physiotherapist when I reached the ward.

After close to 40 days of lying in bed, he had lost all his muscles and feeling weak.

The physiotherapist was very assuring. 

He insisted that my father had at least 85% of his strength back after getting him to bend his legs and suspending his leg in the air independently. My father then felt confident that it was not some unknown or suspicious factors that were causing his perceived weakness.

The doctor finally removed the chest tube on Wednesday. My father was getting impatient and feeling irritable over why the doctors refused to remove the tube without a reason.

After the tube was removed, the doctor discovered that my father's haemoglobin level was on the low side. They observed for 2 days before they did blood transfusion for him to up it.

It seemed promising when it went up yesterday.

We were glad that the doctor was finally talking about discharge.

Then this morning, my sisters said that he could have accidentally tugged at his feeding tube that was stitched into his stomach, and he got a fever - always a cause for concern.

I haven't visited him yesterday and today, so I am not sure if he is well now.

We are looking to have him discharged tomorrow.

Please continue to pray for him.

And a medical bill that is largely covered by insurance and Medisave. The last we knew, insurance was only covering a quarter of an exorbitant bill. $40k out of $188k isn't that great. He has another operation to do. We need the finances. Please pray for us.