Schmidt family update (aka lourdesmont's family)
Jeff, Lisa's brother, just called me to let me know what's been going on in Florida. Not so good things, he says. His wife has been in hospital with various bleeding/thyroid/etc. issues; Jeff's cancer is still giving him grief; Shannon at least is no worse; but Christopher, Lisa's nephew, just got home from the hospital -- he had been in a diabetic coma for several days, including several on a ventilator because he could not breathe, and has/had a blood sugar level of 1500 (Jeff said the doctors told him that they only generally saw a blood sugar that high in the morgue), pancreatis, and a fulminating infection. He is home, but not out of the woods, because he had NOT been diabetic before, and this came out of the blue. They still don't know what triggered it, and what is going on, although the insulin shots are bringing his blood sugars down to okay levels.
Interestingly, according to Jeff, Christopher is a rationalist, and not religious. He has decided that there is nothing except what can be materially appreciated -- but when he came out of his coma, he told his parents that "Aunt Lisa was there, telling me I could NOT give up". And he is not the kind of young man who believes in life after death. So I have to think that Aunt Lisa is still watching over her family, you know?
So prayers are actively requested, for "both the living and the dead" of their family, and I'm going to check in with them in a couple of weeks. I asked and was given permission to let you all know what's up with them, as I feel that Lisa would have wanted us to keep in contact with her family.
Interestingly, according to Jeff, Christopher is a rationalist, and not religious. He has decided that there is nothing except what can be materially appreciated -- but when he came out of his coma, he told his parents that "Aunt Lisa was there, telling me I could NOT give up". And he is not the kind of young man who believes in life after death. So I have to think that Aunt Lisa is still watching over her family, you know?
So prayers are actively requested, for "both the living and the dead" of their family, and I'm going to check in with them in a couple of weeks. I asked and was given permission to let you all know what's up with them, as I feel that Lisa would have wanted us to keep in contact with her family.