Wednesday, June 22, 2011

PRAYER NEEDED

Jack Holliday is the Pastor at Anderson Friends Church who we are under during the transition to Indiana Yearly Meeting. When M&O met with them, we learned that Jack was very ill and has had to step aside until his strength is regained and things get under control for him healthwise. I emailed his wife to inquire about him and she responded about his condition and thought I'd share it with you so you can keep Jack in your Prayers.

Hello, Bob,

Thank you so much for asking about Jack and for your prayers! The following is an update I sent today to several people.

Jack is in the Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie with pneumonia in his left lung. He’s been very weak and has lost 30 pounds since April 15. His blood platelets were 14 on that day and should have been around 140-150. The count finally came up to 106 after four weekly treatments of Rituxen which is good and people live just fine at this level. But today, we found out that they jumped to 153 – a shocker as the count seemed to level off at around 100. God is up to something here.

Jack has never gained his full strength since April 15 (tax day – that’s probably the problem) and was notified that he had pneumonia last Friday after a doctor’s appointment and a chest x-ray. Then they found he was low in potassium and magnesium and was taking too much blood pressure medicine – so they are tweaking him.

He is feeling better today and taking walks – and he shaved! Yea! He’s still on oxygen but certainly breathing better.

He’s in room 9111 and his phone # is 765-747-3418.

Thanks for ALL the prayers!!
Rowena

1 comment:

Kelly Haemmerle said...

Glad to hear that he is on the mend!