**Update** A Favor

Update: My friend is doing much much better. She came home from the hospital this weekend and has been on the upswing ever since. She even was able to get out and do some fun things today. Thanks everyone for your prayers. If so inclined, please pray for her continued recovery. Thank you very much!



A very good RL friend of mine had relatively routine surgery just over four weeks ago. This was supposed to be an overnight stay and two weeks to complete recovery.

Well, I don't want to make a long story long, but she has had nothing but complications since. I don't accurately know all the details, but she has been in and out of the hospital 5 times since the surgery, for a total of about two weeks, and she's there again now.

All I can tell you is one thing has gone wrong after another. The way I understand it is that she had a huge complication initially, which has been treated, but the treatment of that led to other problems, and the treatment of those problems has led to even more problems. The complications have been a downward spiral, each one worse than the last, and now she is facing kidney failure on one side, along with another serious issue they are working to treat.

Please pray for her. She is my age with two small children. Fortunately, her mom has been able to be there, very involved and taking care of the kids and the house. Her husband has also been able to take some time off work. But at this point, everyone is worried about what might happen next, her children are becoming tired of mommy having to go to the hospital (at least one time required an ambulance) and grandma is also becoming fatigued, both emotionally and physically.

Would you please send up a prayer if/when you think of it. She really just needs to be well and home and on the road to recovery. This "short recovery" procedure has drug on for almost 5 weeks now, and everyone is hoping she has seen the last of any new complications. Also pray for her Dr.'s that they are able to make accurate diagnosis of and choose appropriate treatment for whatever is going on.

Thank you. I know I can count on you guys. That means a lot.