Please Please Please Pray

I know that I haven't posted in awhile but I'm pleading with all friends to please pray with me for my father in law. He has been in critical condition at the SLC ICU for over 2 weeks now. He had a heart transplant and everything that could possibly go wrong has. His liver and kidneys quit functioning, they had to cut out his colon and part of his small intestine and he already had to have additional surgery on the new heart. Right now he is hooked up to machines and in a medically induced coma. They're going to try doing brain scans sometime this week to test his brain functions....the biggest fear now is that he's suffered brain damage as a result of the initial surgery (23 hours).

Please please please pray for him and all of our family. This is a very trying time for everyone. What a testimony this could be if they knew he had a bunch of prayer warriors and pulled through! Please ask your churches, prayer groups and friends to include him in their prayer as well. It would really mean more to me than anything.

Thank you so much

Intense

SO much going on and I just don't have the energy to share.

Please keep my FIL in your prayers. The entire family needs it right now.

Also pray that maybe my boss's grow a heart and don't fire me. I missed an entire week of work and there will be more days missed in the near future.

Personal Prayer Request

Many of you know about my father-in-law's health condition and for the rest this is an update.

Mike's dad needs a heart transplant and right now is pretty high on the priority list. His heart is very weak and won't pump hard enough on its own to keep him alive, so currently he is on a 24/7 IV pump that goes straight to his heart to keep it pumping.

We've known this since March of this year but he's had a heck of a time dealing with an east coast hospital so earlier this month transferred his care to the Salt Lake City VA hospital. We thought he would be released to come to our house for Thanksgiving but he was in such bad condition that they wouldn't discharge him. So while Mike was home we went to visit him over the weekend and brought him Thanksgiving dinner and pie :).

Today he was supposed to be discharged and was hoping to drive down and stay here for a week until all the paperwork was approved through D.C. to be put on the official waiting list. Once again there were additional complications and his release has been postponed for at least several more days.

He was so incredibly upset and it just broke my heart hearing the disappointment and sadness in his voice. I cleared things at work and am taking tomorrow off to go spend the day with him and just baked another pie to take to him.

I'm asking for prayer for a couple of things. He is in such low spirits having been stuck in a new, unfamiliar hospital over the holidays and nowhere near family. He has to be at least a tad bit scared and nervous on top of being lonely and depressed. Without a stream of visitors to cheer him up, he's had nothing but time on his hands to contemplate every worst case scenario. If you would please pray that his spirits are lifted as we all know this also affects his physical health.

Secondly, it is so hard to pray for a heart to come quickly because we know what that entails and realize the sacrifice another family will experience in order to make our lives better. But...please pray that he will receive a match soon because time is working against us. It would be such a huge blessing to his sons to be able to spend a few more years with their father. Selfishly, I'd like for him to be around to meet our future children so that they will get to know their grandpa.

I appreciate all of your prayers in advance. Thank you.