If you can say a prayer…

If you can say a prayer, please say one today for my co-worker, Josh. He’s 26, he and his wife just had their first baby last week, and Josh went into cardiac arrest this morning. He is in ICU right now.

He’s been fighting some sort of viral infection near his heart for the last few weeks and been in and out of the ER, but even with the medication they gave him, he still went into cardiac arrest this morning.

Update at 12:30 PM Monday:
Josh woke up. He didn’t know where he was or what happened, but he tried to get out of bed to go to the bathroom, so they had to restrain him. He’s a big guy – over 6’5″ and played college basketball, and is still pretty fit and muscular, so it was a feat for them to get him back in bed. They took him off the respirator, and have some kind of ‘Pick-thingy’ in him (they said it is like an IV that goes straight into the heart), but that’s all the info they had for us at this time. They don’t know why he went into cardiac arrest yet.

His wife is a little thing, barely 5’3″ and still has the incision from her Caesarean last week, but she was able to maneuver him into a position where she could perform CPR until the paramedics got there, and they said that saved his life. The doctors said he would not have made it if she hadn’t performed CPR.

Update Monday at 1:45 PM:
More on Josh – He has short term memory loss. He can remember his wife and his immediate family, but he can’t tell you how old he is, when he was born, or most anything else. The doctors feel that this is temporary. He was greatly upset by the catheter, and the doctors agreed to remove it, and he has been able to get up to use the restroom, but only with assistance. Still, the fact that he did this even with help to stand and walk is a good sign, we are told.

Jennifer Ray
http://www.jenaray.com/