Our first little "miracle"

TUESDAY 15, 2005-Our family was brought into the "family counseling" room on monday at around 4:50, which is very ironic because it was almost exactly 72 hours after his accident, because the doctor had concern that there may have been an occluded vein in the ventricular area of Paul's brain. If the vein was in fact occluded, we were informed that what would most likely happen would be that the blood leaving the brain would back up into his brain causing it to swell and he would probably die, or even worse than death, he would be in a persistant vegetative state. All we had to go by was the CAT scan that was done earlier in the day, and it suggested that the high concentration of blood in the brain was a blood clot that was the occluded vein. Evidently, the CAT scan is not as informative as an MRI, so they performed the test last night to affirm that the high concentration was indeed an occluded vein. This morning, when the results of the MRI came in, the staff again called the family into that room where they counciled us. By the grace of GOD and all that is HOLY, we have good news to offer. Paul does have an occluded vein, but the surrounding veins have picked up the slack of the one occluded vein. What this means is that he will live, and the occluded vein wont be a problem any more. That is not to say there wont be further complications, but nonetheless, this truly was a miracle and we have to thank all of you for praying so intensely for us. It is by far the power of prayer that kept my brother alive. We have you all to thank for this miracle. I love you so much, God bless you all.