Tuesday Update

First, thanks for your prayers, for us, for Sue's mom, for her brother, and for the overall circumstances.

Sue's mom is hurting, but we can identify most of those things. There are some little things (the hospital lost her clothes) and some bigger ones (something - meds, age, infection? - is making her thinking unclear). And she's grieving for Charlie.

Sue's brother, Charlie, is in real trouble. He's been in the hospital for 8 days, and he's progressed to the point where he can mumble his name. They've been feeding him through a tube in his nose, but it's time to change that. They were planning to insert a feeding tube directly into his stomach, but they realized that this crosses some sort of boundary, and they need to make a decision: do we go to extreme measures to keep him alive, or do they let him go.

Sue & I are having a real hard time knowing how to cope with this, and of course, it's hitting Sue hardest. How do we respond? What can we do to help? So we pray. We follow as much path as we can see, and we work hard to keep our eyes where they belong.

Thanks so much for your prayers.