Dear
LHFC Family
As
I type this letter I am struggling to keep back the tears of joy. We have so much to be thankful for but ultimately I want to
express my gratefulness in as best as possible English. I wanted to stand up in
the 9am service and say how thankful I am, but I realised I was going to
struggle to stay composed. To have M in the church on Sunday was a miracle
and I felt so fortunate.
When
M collapsed it was just God that allowed it to happen in the room where
S, C (senior) and I was busy setting up the wardrobe. If it happened a
minute earlier or later she would have been in the kitchen. S is the
lifesaver that realised she wasn’t breathing as I was under the impression at
the time that she had a stroke and I put her in the recovery position. We had
to put her back on the ground to do CPR. 1st responder arrived
within 5 minutes! And applied the heart shock thing. They knew she had a heart
attack because S called 999 straight away and the emergency services work
in a flash. When the ambulance arrived 15 minutes later M had her heart
started again. So her heart stopped 25 minutes in total. Ambulance then sped
off to the QA and C and I followed. When we arrived at 4pm they huddled
us into a room and I thought ‘this is not good’ the first time we saw M
was about 8pm. C could not stand seeing her like that and he left the trauma
unit and I received a hug from Lisa D who was there working. They
advised us she is going to ICU and we stayed there till about 11pm when we saw
her again and I remarked to C that she looks better than with her make up on!
She
stayed in the ICU till the next Monday so we dealt with a number of ICU staff
including Magriet Du T on Wednesday. The consultant advised us on
Tuesday night that we should not even think of anything positive till she came
out of the drug induced coma when they would let her body temperature back to
normal. So the doctor wasn’t positive and even the nursing staff was very stand
offish.
On
Sunday we had M back almost 90% as she could talk and recognise people.
One
nurse from Zimbabwe told us the hospital was talking about us and how the
church is praying for M. She remarked that ‘M has a direct line to
God’ When M was in the heart ward we also saw Abi and when we left the
heart ward on Friday one of the nursing staff told me that that side of the
hospital was abuzz about M and how the church was praying for her.
All
the way through the week we had no stress. No doubts. No concerns. The only
negative thing that popped in to my mind on Sunday was the cost. The consultant
in charge of ICU informed me on Monday that he would make sure they don’t
charge us the ICU costs as M stayed there because of no fault of her
own. God is good
And
I can’t thank you enough for all your prayers and thoughts over the last 2
weeks.
Praise
the Lord, SHALOM,
CJVR
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