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Please help us pray for a dear friend of ours sister. This is from her CaringBridge site.




Friends who love Emily,

Here's some background to bring you up to speed with her story.

Last Tuesday, Sept 1st, Emily came home from school feeling ill. She went to her doctor on Wednesday and found that she had developed acute Bronchitis. After several days of being on antibiotics and other meds she was showing no improvement. She went back to her doctor on Saturday and recieved a breathing treatment that offered some temporary relief.

By Sunday she was having significant trouble breathing and went to the East Alabama Medical Center ER that afternoon. After x-rays and some tests they discovered that she had developed pneumonia in one of her lungs and tested positive for H1N1 flu. She was admitted that night and has been under the care of Dr. Steven Presley since then. In the next days Emily had little response to a mix of antibiotics and other treatments and by Wednesday night the pneumonia was in both lungs.

Her condition digressed through the night and by Thursday morning her breathing had become very rapid and shallow. Her lungs simply were not able to receive oxygen and thus her organs were in jeopardy of being compromised. She was immediately moved to ICU, sedated, and put on a ventilator.

While things like "ICU", "sedation" and "ventilator" may sound really bad, these are actually good things for Emily right now. These last days have been very tough for her, miserable and exhausting. She's now resting very well, not coughing, calm, and completely zoned out (won't remember any of this). She has stabalized on the ventilator and her vitals are improving. Her condition at this time has classified her as having ARDS (Acute Respitory Deficiency Syndrome). Our family will continue to put updates in the journal as much as possible.

Thank you so much for your prayers, love and support for Emily. We are very hopeful for her recovery and are trusting Jesus to do his healing work in her body right now.