Lorie
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I wanted all of you to know why I haven't been on the Forum lately. Now I am looking after two Brothers. I am so greatful to have them. Please read:
Saturday, April 26th. My brother Dale 48 who is my brother Tim’s (with ALS) best friend and assist in the Care Giving for Tim, was building a fence for a Couple. At 6:30 pm he literally dropped dead of a Heart Attack. The lady he was working for, happened to be a Nurse and started CPR right away and her husband called 911. He did not have a pulse. It took ten minutes for the Paramedics to get there. They worked on him on spot. They paddled him four times. The hospital was about ten minutes away. When they got to the hospital no heart beat, my brother Ron and their neighbor was at the hospital. My brother Ron stopped the doctors and nurses before wheeling Dale in to the room to work on him. Ron put his hands on Dale and Prayed for him to Live.
The doctors and nurses were stunned, the Nurse cried. Meanwhile I was called to get there, that my brother was not going to live. They got a vague heart beat and put Dale on a medication to clinically raise his heart beat and he was on Life support. When I got there they told me that no one could live for more than ten minutes without oxygen to the Brain, and not be brain damaged. Well, Dale went thirty five minutes without oxygen to the brain, total resuscitation time one hour and five minutes. The doctor told me he would not live. They put Dale on an anesthesia type medication to keep his brain relaxed and tool a CT scan. I was overwhelmed with grief. I talked to my brother just like he could here me. I told him he was strong and I knew he could make it. That we were hard headed and strong. And that I knew he was strong. I stayed at the hospital until late into the night, I left and went to check on Tim. Tim was so strong and amazing and Praying for Dale. This would kill Tim he would not be able to take it. He loves me and Dale so much. We have the same father, who deceased this week seven years ago.
I arrived home, I have a small bench by our bed. I kneeled down on my knees and Prayed: God, My brother needs you. Our family cannot take this. My heart, emotionally cannot take much more. Please save my brother. Let him live and make him normal again. We need and love our brother. God, please help him and us. Amen
The next day I went when ever I wanted. They did not keep me away. No matter what the visitation hours were. Again, I talked to my brother as if he could here me. Sunday night, the nurse told me that they had let up on the medication for his brain, and he responded to them by squeezing their hand. But could not breathe on his on. Monday, the same thing. The nurse Monday night was the same one there Saturday night. She told me that when she was with him Saturday, she just knew he would not live. Clinically he just could not do it. The Doctor told me the same thing. At 2:15 am Tuesday morning, the same nurse called me in tears. She told me that she let up on the same medication and he responded to her and squeezed her hand, she asked him a question and he tried to shake his head. He could not talk because of the tubes. She was so happy and said she knew I would want her to call me. I laid in bed crying. I was so happy. Still they didn’t know if he would be brain damaged. That it was likely. His CT scan came back good, so there was no swelling or bleeding of the brain.
Tuesday morning I get there and my brother was awake. I was so happy. He was real groggy, but awake. He was breathing on his own. Tuesday afternoon, they put him in a room. I went down there and he talked to me. He did not remember what happed from about two days before he had the heart attack and died. He was having short term memory problems. He could not remember anything that happened five minutes ago. Wednesday they did a heart cath. He had two blocked arteries in the front of his heart. When he was laying there recovering, he told me and my Mom. You see those blue skies up there? Jesus is there. We looked at each other and tears ran down our face. The doctor gave me a choice of options for him. So on Thursday, they put two stints in those arteries. And put him on plavix. Friday morning, I took Dale home. He doesn’t have insurance, so I think they let him go early. Still with some short term memory problems.
I went and filled all his medications. And got everything he needed. The Doctor’s have no clinical reason my brother is alive and functioning. The paramedics call him and the nurses. They cannot believe it, still. But, we know. God performed a miracle. My brother is a Miracle. No one can get over it. It is amazing. Thank you God for letting my brother live to be with Tim and us. I am now a true believer in Miracles now.
He is having some problems, nothing we can't handle.
Dale calls me every morning, he will say: Good morning Sister Dear. (slowly) I love you. Thank you for being my sister and loving me. I tell him don’t thank me, it’s an honor. I tell him I love him to.
I am really proud of my family. Tim is so strong inside. I am amazed with him.
Please keep us in your heart and prayers. I am really tired right now. But I am still going!
Lorie
Saturday, April 26th. My brother Dale 48 who is my brother Tim’s (with ALS) best friend and assist in the Care Giving for Tim, was building a fence for a Couple. At 6:30 pm he literally dropped dead of a Heart Attack. The lady he was working for, happened to be a Nurse and started CPR right away and her husband called 911. He did not have a pulse. It took ten minutes for the Paramedics to get there. They worked on him on spot. They paddled him four times. The hospital was about ten minutes away. When they got to the hospital no heart beat, my brother Ron and their neighbor was at the hospital. My brother Ron stopped the doctors and nurses before wheeling Dale in to the room to work on him. Ron put his hands on Dale and Prayed for him to Live.
The doctors and nurses were stunned, the Nurse cried. Meanwhile I was called to get there, that my brother was not going to live. They got a vague heart beat and put Dale on a medication to clinically raise his heart beat and he was on Life support. When I got there they told me that no one could live for more than ten minutes without oxygen to the Brain, and not be brain damaged. Well, Dale went thirty five minutes without oxygen to the brain, total resuscitation time one hour and five minutes. The doctor told me he would not live. They put Dale on an anesthesia type medication to keep his brain relaxed and tool a CT scan. I was overwhelmed with grief. I talked to my brother just like he could here me. I told him he was strong and I knew he could make it. That we were hard headed and strong. And that I knew he was strong. I stayed at the hospital until late into the night, I left and went to check on Tim. Tim was so strong and amazing and Praying for Dale. This would kill Tim he would not be able to take it. He loves me and Dale so much. We have the same father, who deceased this week seven years ago.
I arrived home, I have a small bench by our bed. I kneeled down on my knees and Prayed: God, My brother needs you. Our family cannot take this. My heart, emotionally cannot take much more. Please save my brother. Let him live and make him normal again. We need and love our brother. God, please help him and us. Amen
The next day I went when ever I wanted. They did not keep me away. No matter what the visitation hours were. Again, I talked to my brother as if he could here me. Sunday night, the nurse told me that they had let up on the medication for his brain, and he responded to them by squeezing their hand. But could not breathe on his on. Monday, the same thing. The nurse Monday night was the same one there Saturday night. She told me that when she was with him Saturday, she just knew he would not live. Clinically he just could not do it. The Doctor told me the same thing. At 2:15 am Tuesday morning, the same nurse called me in tears. She told me that she let up on the same medication and he responded to her and squeezed her hand, she asked him a question and he tried to shake his head. He could not talk because of the tubes. She was so happy and said she knew I would want her to call me. I laid in bed crying. I was so happy. Still they didn’t know if he would be brain damaged. That it was likely. His CT scan came back good, so there was no swelling or bleeding of the brain.
Tuesday morning I get there and my brother was awake. I was so happy. He was real groggy, but awake. He was breathing on his own. Tuesday afternoon, they put him in a room. I went down there and he talked to me. He did not remember what happed from about two days before he had the heart attack and died. He was having short term memory problems. He could not remember anything that happened five minutes ago. Wednesday they did a heart cath. He had two blocked arteries in the front of his heart. When he was laying there recovering, he told me and my Mom. You see those blue skies up there? Jesus is there. We looked at each other and tears ran down our face. The doctor gave me a choice of options for him. So on Thursday, they put two stints in those arteries. And put him on plavix. Friday morning, I took Dale home. He doesn’t have insurance, so I think they let him go early. Still with some short term memory problems.
I went and filled all his medications. And got everything he needed. The Doctor’s have no clinical reason my brother is alive and functioning. The paramedics call him and the nurses. They cannot believe it, still. But, we know. God performed a miracle. My brother is a Miracle. No one can get over it. It is amazing. Thank you God for letting my brother live to be with Tim and us. I am now a true believer in Miracles now.
He is having some problems, nothing we can't handle.
Dale calls me every morning, he will say: Good morning Sister Dear. (slowly) I love you. Thank you for being my sister and loving me. I tell him don’t thank me, it’s an honor. I tell him I love him to.
I am really proud of my family. Tim is so strong inside. I am amazed with him.
Please keep us in your heart and prayers. I am really tired right now. But I am still going!
Lorie