Now we know why Matt was feeling so poor yesterday. Dad noticed Matt was having more trouble breathing, his cough was less effective, and he was spasming more in his limbs. His white blood count was way up, which is a sure sign of infection. The sputum coming up should be yellow and thin, his was thick and yellow-green. So they want to start him on antibiotics again, but they could not get an IV line established, so they were going to get someone up from ICU to do it. I think Matt's vessels have not recovered from the beating they took before. Dad says that even though Matt's coughing is weaker, if Dad times it right, he takes the cap off Matt's trach, pushes on his abdomen and lots of lovelies come out. Better than suctioning him.
But he was in good spirits nevertheless. Nolan and Lindsay arrived last night and visited for about an hour. Today again lots of company. Matt was up in his chair for 4 hours and did pretty well. They all went to the rec room and played crib. Nolan and Matt were about to win when Dad and Cory Ryhorski beat them. Lindsay was holding the cards for Matt.
So for tomorrow's big game, they will be watching at the hospital. Planning on pizza and pop with approximately 10 people coming. So it should be great. Too cold to go out anyway.
Prayers that Matt's infection will clear up quickly and he will be better for rehab on Monday. "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer".
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Hi Matthew. Can't wait to see you next week. I sure hope this snow stops as I don't like driving in this kind of weather. It snowed in P.A. most of the day today(Saturday). I spent most of the day in town and then I brought Jada home for the night as Shauna and Dale had his Christmas party to go to. We will take her home tomorrow morning when we go to church. Then we are taking Jacob to his hockey game before we go to Trevor & Terina's for the Riders game. I can't believe I am excited about watching the game - I hate football. Must be because of all the excitement around the city and the province.
Take care and get over that infection soon. Hope to see you Tuesday or Wednesday.
I saw your nurse Chris in P.A. today. He misses you and all your family.
Love Always Aunty Sandy
sorry to hear of the infection again but you have beat it before and you will this time too-especially with nurse dad helping you! Keep looking to the Lord for strength for the day Matt. yy
Hi all. Its rider day,are you ready to watch them win the cup.To bad about the infection but the win will cheer you up,while you are harassing them lions fans,(sorry Linz). So your ready to play crib,remember way back when i promised i would let you win one game,but only one.Next time im in the city we will have our match hopefully.Cheer hard and get rid of that infection.Loads of prayers for you.Bryon,Brenda&Fam. GO RIDERS GO
It was so good to see Matt, sorry the visit was short, but we will be back to see you! Hope you start feeling better
love michelle & cody
Well Matt they did it, as if you had any doubts. They made it exciting till the end. Today is a good day to be a Rider fan. Will pray that you get to feeling better soon, so you can keep wow...ing us with your progress. Can't wait to read about you every day. Nice to hear Nolan got down to share in the game with you.
Love Deb
Hey big guy,
Sorry to hear about your infection. We've been praying for you and you will come through this again. I don't think that there's a Sunday that we don't pray for you as a congregation in Weekes.
Two steps forward, a little one back, but you'll be going forward again soon.
Way to go Riders! Quite the nail biting game. Definitely not a run away by any means. Too close for comfort for me. I'm on edge the whole time. Looks like the Bombers defensive team sure didn't let up at all and Kerry Joseph sure had a tough time getting that ball into the air. Good thing we had a good defensive team with those three interceptions. Looks like that just about won the game for us.
Well, I shall run. Hope you get a good sleep tonight after all the excitement today.
The Hertz's
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