sylvia's Requests...

From: Sylvia Pituch

Date: December 31, 2010 4:53:58 PM CST

Subject: PR for Joanne, my grandmother, and Victor

Victor & I are down in MD - a New Year's tradition with cousins Michael & Debbie - we went out for breakfast this morning - and a few hours later Victor is hit with the stomach bug - we quarantined him in a bedroom with gatorade, Imodium.....and can't say he's doing too much better - wanted to take him home - but that would probably be challenging - then received a call from my mom - my grandma Irene Jebitsch was taken from the Phoebe Nursing home to Lehigh Valley Hospital Cedar Crest - she is still in the ER - she has chronic bladder infections which send her off in another world - I spoke with her nurse about it on Wed night (had been there Sun & Tues - she was so-so) - nurse explained they did a rapid flu test and it was neg and she is on antibiotics by injection but no difference - the dr in the ER explained that she is very toxic and there probably isn't much they can do - mom said I shouldn't come home - just to sit tight until we get more updates - just got a text from my brother Stephen who went over to be with mom and my uncle Jim - he said grandma seems a little more calm since getting IV fluids - she was also dehydrated - (while I was with her on Wed she drank three large glasses of water in the time I was there) - he also said just to stay put and they will keep me updated.  Please pray that Victor's stomach will calm down so that prehaps we can drive home tomorrow afternoon if need be - Michele, Hunter, Meghan, & Eric are alll coming up to MD tomorrow too.........  And pray that grandma will be comfortable.  Thanks! <3

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Happy New Year to all,

    

     Please storm Heaven again for Joanne McLaughlin.  She is back in the hospital with a tear in her stomach that is leaking stomach matter into her system.  She had another procedure done today, but they are also keeping her on heavy duty antibiotics to try to prevent peritonitis.  This is almost 5 months of home a week and then back to the hospital.  If any of you see Msgr Murphy,  Please let him know of Joanne's  newest trial.  All this is from the original surgery.  She has had every complication  that is possible.  I feel so bad for her and her children.  We are all getting very stressed out.  Seems she starts to turn a corner and is back again with more problems.  I don't know how much anesthesia and probing her body can endure.  I sure hope the New Year brings her strength and a new healthy body.  Love to you all,  Carole Y