Well, Job took a turn for the worse last night. He is doing ok now, but he has lost a lot of the progress he had made as far as the amount of medical support he is on.
Basically, the incredible amount of edema he was experiencing in his midsection was disrupting blood flow to his kidney and the pathway between his kidney and his bladder. They were just about to drain fluid from his tummy through a catheter to relieve some of the pressure when his blood pressure starting falling drastically and he went into cardiac arrest. They did chest compressions for nine minutes to get his heart pumping properly again.
They've drained a lot of fluid from him, and he has started peeing, which is a good sign. But he is still so puffy, because of the capillary leaking into bodily tissue. Eventually, his blood vessels need to start "sealing up", as the doctors put it.
I guess one thing to be learned here is that his recovery, AT BEST, is going to be a roller coaster ride. I wonder if, rather than giving a blow-by-blow of every step foward or step backward, it is best to just say that he is still fighting for his life, and will be for the foreseeable future (if there's such a thing). Even when things are looking up, it's important for Autumn and me to be prepared for some really difficult days and setbacks.
But we continue to bless the name of the Lord our God, whose mercies endure forever. Amen.
-Seth
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