Update on Thelen

Tim

Tim talked with Laura today and this is the rundown:

• Mike saw a specialist today and was sent straight to surgery. He had an abscess that was septic.
• Sepsis/septic: Sepsis: Commonly called a "blood stream infection." The presence of bacteria (bacteremia) or other infectious organisms or their toxins in the blood (septicemia) or in other tissue of the body. Sepsis may be associated with clinical symptoms of systemic (bodywide) illness, such as fever, chills, malaise (generally feeling "rotten"), low blood pressure, and mental status changes. Sepsis can be a serious situation, a life threatening disease calling for urgent and comprehensive care. Taken from web site/address: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5449
• The abscess was drained and it was very deep; however, the doctors think he will make a full recovery.
• He will be in the hospital for one week.
• After returning home, he will receive home health care for at least one week

Specific prayer needs:

• Mike is in a tremendous amount of pain because of this. Pray for relief from the pain.
• He is also unable to Leah at all and probably will be unable to see her for duration of hospital stay.

He is in Oak Ridge Methodist Medical Center. He cannot receive visitors as of yet. Tim will funnel me updates as he receives them in which I will gladly pass on to you all. Please keep them in your prayers. There is a praise in all of this. He does have a wonderful vacation/off work policy so they will be fine, I believe, financially through all of this and with his position at the job. However, please continue to pray that this holds true for them.

The family covets your prayers for them.

Talk with you soon....

Lisa M. Cline for
the Hodson LifeGroup
your CONNECT Leader
494.6444

Yearwood Update

Here is an update from the Yearwood family.....

Breakfast_Rotation

Hello again,

Thanks to Lisa, she put together a breakfast rotation sign up sheet. I just put it in a little spreadsheet, so everyone can fill in our names where needed.

Chad

LGNS 6/28/09

Hello everyone,

Hope your week is starting out alright. Attached you will find this week's LGNS. Everyone have a good week.

Chad

Pictures

Hello again,

As soon as I can get some more pics in from everyone, then I am going to start putting together our "LifeGroup" special photo website on our blog. So, bring in those photos.........


Chad

LGNS 6-21-09

Hello all,

Here is the link to this week's LGNS. Hope everyone is doing fine.

SPECIAL NOTE: BRENT HAS EXTRA T-SHIRTS FOR THE 4TH OF JULY PARADE !!! SEE HIM FOR MORE DETAILS................

Knight special delivery

Knight special delivery...................

Recipe Swap

Upcoming recipe swap - 6:30 in the fellowship hall on Friday June 26 with Sheperd's and Jones' LifeGroup

LGNS 6-14-09

Hello everyone. Hope that things are going well for everyone. I just wanted to let everyone know that this week's LGNS is up & ready to "explore." Also, as a reminder... I am still needing some pictures from some people, so if you have them, please either bring them to class on Sunday, or e-mail me them (bates.chad@gmail.com). This way I can make a few changes to our blog. Have a good week.

Chad

Camping over Labor Day weekend

Hey guys,

I realize this is kind of premature, but the summer has started off fast so I know Labor Day will arrive before we know it. Our Life Group has planned to go camping over Labor Day weekend hopefully at Greenbriar Island in Gatlinburg. What I need to know from you is if you plan to go, and what you will be camping in (tent or camper) If it is a camper I will need to know what size. I also need to know the dates you will be staying. I will then call Greenbriar to see if there are enough slots for all of us. The starting date will be Friday, Sept 4. Our family is planning to stay the whole Labor Day weekend, but you may do whatever works for your family. I just need to get the ball rolling for reservations. You can email me, or post to the blog. Have a great rest of the week.

Ginger

Laney's Praise

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to send an update on Trevor. Craig and I truly appreciate all of your prayers for him. He saw the neurologist a couple of weeks ago, and he said that Trevor has probably escaped any long term effects from the complications he had at birth. He said that "we can't say that for sure, but it appears that he has". He does want to go ahead with another EEG just to see how it looks since he did still have some seizure activity on the last one, otherwise it was nearly normal. This is a praise because if you are going to have abnormalities, you want it to be seizure activity because it is treatable, the other stuff is not. So even if it does still show seizure activity, they may not even treat him unless he begins to have symptoms.

Also, Trevor saw the growth and development doctor this past Friday. She gave us a very good report. Everything she looks at was either "normal" or "great"!! She again reminded me of how very blessed we are to have him. She told me that a true knot (this is what caused all the problems , he had an actual knot in his cord and it was very tight, which completely cut off his oxygen supply) is very serious and lots of times the babies don't survive, or can have serious long term effects. So the fact that he is alive and doing so well is amazing. He's our miracle!!!!! May all the praise and glory go to God, who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think (Eph. 3:20).

Craig and I also want to thank you all again for the giftcard to Babies R Us. We are so blessed to be a part of such a giving and loving group of people. We love you all.

Now, I would like to ask for your prayers once more. Craig is battleing his 28th or 29th kidney stone (I know , it's insane!). This one is apparently huge, and the chances of him passing it are pretty slim. So, he goes in tomorrow to have it busted. Thank God for lithotripsy!! Please pray for him as he undergoes the procedure and for his recovery.

Thank you all again for your prayers.

In Christ's Love,

Tracy