Thanks to Blake for getting the blog back up to date. This will certainly lighten my load trying to keep everybody updated.

Here is what has happened today:

Karen had some kind of event this afternoon around 4pm and is in ICU. She had difficulty breathing, high BP and high heartrate. They had to intubate her (breathing tube) and rushed her to ICU. They believe it is a pulmonary embolus (PE or bloodclot in her lungs). They are running a bunch of tests to rule out heart, etc and to confirm it is a PE. If it is a PE they will increase her heparin (blood thinner) which should dissolve the clot and she should improve in 24-48 hours. She is heavily sedated but nodding her head when asked questions and the doctors said when this happened she was reponding appropriately to instructions so that is encouraging.

It is now 10:15pm and she is waiting for a CT scan that should show whether this was a PE. It could be tomorrow before we hear results. PE is still the current thinking on what is going on.

Thanks for all the prayers!

Rusty

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