This is for anyone who hasn't heard, Chad's Dad is in the ICU at St. Mark's in SLC. So I am asking for people's thoughts and prayers right now. This is a very unusual situation. Kent was up Skiing about a month ago and fell and ran into a tree with his leg. He broke his femur in four places, but was unhurt in any other way. They plated and put a rod in his leg and everything looked like it was going to be okay. However, after leaving the hospital and going into a PT clinic, he began having difficulty breathing. He ended back in the hospital for awhile, but they released him again to the clinic. He again had breathing problems and they rushed him back to the hospital and had to intubate him. For the last three weeks he has been in a drug induced coma and about a week ago they replaced the breathing tube with a traech tube. On Monday, Kent had a major crash and three of his organs shut down and we came very close to losing him. He is now on continious dialysis because his kidneys are not working and is still on a respirator.
We had a sit down with the doctors on Thursday and got the full story on his condition. The heart and lung doctor said there is only two things you can really do with lung patients and that is steroids and antiboitics, and they are using both, but he is not responding.They cannot find any infection in his lungs and are basically at a loss as to what is going on. Basically his lungs are full of fluid and stiff as a board and they really don't know why. At this point the only thing left to do is wait. Right now he is on a rollar coaster and has not shown a general trend towards getting better or worse. The doctors say once a trend starts, that is probably the way he will go. But if he does start getting better, they believe everything else will start to heal also, including his kidneys and liver. So if you have a minute, give Kent and the family a thought. This has been very hard on everybody, especially the not knowing.
