April Notes from Our Friends
Friday, April 10, 2009 10:19 PM, CDT
I am still thinking of you guys and praying too. May you have a blessed Easter. He is risen!Love,
Lori
lori akin
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:56 AM, CDT
Dear precious Peacocks,
We love you and love reading about John. Thank you for encouraging us all in Christ Jesus. Praying for you today and [...]
Services for John
Kelly, William and I want to thank everyone who has so generously loved us for not just the last day or so, but for the last seven months. And we are certain there will plenty of more love to be thankful for as the days pass. I guess we won’t know just how much impact [...]
John Has Gone Home
Our little boy John passed away this morning. He had just finished another of his long periods of seizures Saturday afternoon and was sleeping soundly as he usually did in such cases. Then last evening he started to have a hard time keeping his oxygen levels high. His nurse was watching him at the time, [...]
Finally Asleep
John finally went to sleep around 11 p.m. last night. He woke up once during the night, but is soundly sleeping now. So the seizures seem to have come to an end.
We worked with one of the neurologists yesterday to figure out what dosage of seizure medication—some of which are sedatives—we could give John without [...]
Seizure Activity
After a week in which John had very few seizures of significant duration, he is now undergoing a burst of seizure activity that has been ongoing for almost 24 hours.
The visible seizures are mixed in with brief periods where he is awake and seizure activity is not apparent and spots where he is asleep. Then [...]
Boy’s Night Out
One of the nice things about living in the Clarksville area of Austin is that we are surrounded by things to do. Town Lake and its parks and running trails are about ½ mile away, restaurants and shops even less. In fact, we have some of those right in the middle of our neighborhood. We [...]