Alex Up-date

As of Today Saturday Sept. 22: ALEX

Today makes 27 days that Alex has been at Jackson Trauma TICU. He is still listed in Critical condition, and has been trying to keep the fight alive. Friday at 2:00pm he was rushed into emergency surgery after his vitals were significantly dropping and the doctors had to make a choice to save his life. They determined that they needed to reopen his stitches they put on his abdomen area that they operated on last week because they suspected that was were the infection was coming from. I am sorry for those who received a frantic text to pray for Alex, because my family and I were devastated by the news. They told us that he may not make it off the operation table, and that they felt he had a better chance of survival to operate. After an hour and half of surgery, the surgeon removed murky fluid from his abdomen area, which most likely is the source of the infection. Alex came out well, but is very critical. They still are concerned about his kidney's shutting downing but as of today his urine has increased which is the reason they still have not put him on dialysis. This is a machine doing the kidney’s job for him, and this is not good.  He still has pneumonia, bacterial infection and still is on a breathing machine. His lungs looked good after they inspected them by putting a camera down into his lungs. They are still  trying a mixture of other drugs to see if they could attack the problem. Al has been giving them one hell of a fight and will not give up. He has such a great support team behind him and I know we all will not stop fighting for him.  I also want you all to know that I have been telling him all your messages and keeping him in the loop on what’s going on in the outside world. Kind of nice have him as a trapped audience and knowing that he must get better to shut his little brother up. I know that your prayers are working, so keep them coming and keep the faith! Keep in mind that progress at the TICU is 3 steps forward and 1 step back! Thank God again that he has had mostly forward steps. He still has a long road ahead of him and is not out of the woods yet. He is very lucky to have such a great support team of family and friends. I will try to keep you all post more often, but as you can imagine I have been so over whelmed by everything.

Side Note:

Please included in your prayers all the family members and friends of the police officers that were hurt yesterday. Especially for the officer that was killed in the line of duty defending our freedom and safety.
 
FYI:

• Alex can't receive any visitors right now  while at TICU
• Please don't send any flowers or  baskets since he can't receive anything while at the TICU
• The family would appreciate no phone calls  or texts during the visitation hours : 10:30-11:30 am, 1:30-2:30pm,  5pm-6pm and 9pm -10 pm.
• If you would like to come by the TICU  outside the visiting hours above, you can find us on the Ryder Trauma Center  2nd floor waiting area.
  

AGAIN THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY FAMILY'S HEART FOR ALL THE SUPPORT AND YOUR CONTINUE PRAYERS FOR MY BROTHER ALEX'S SPEEDY RECOVERY.
 
Please forward this email to anyone asking about Alex.
 
God Bless you all and keep the prayers coming,
 
Adrian