Monday, July 7, 2014

Prayers for my awesome brother

It all started out with Jay arriving at New York LaGuardia, I found him waiting for me at the curb. It is always a great day to see my brother and I knew that we would get to spend a few weeks together in Bridgewater as we cleaned out mom and dads house. As it turned out it was a lot of work and we managed to get it all done. We never had any disagreements and we got it done and were ready to leave to take mom and dads stuff home to California. This past Friday, we had done all the heavywork and manage to hit the road around 10 am. We drove all day and made it to Ohio. Day two we got up early and left Ohio and made it to Illinois. Day three was the tough one and I started out driving. I found we were stopping more often than usual as Jay needed to relieve himself more than what I thought was norma. Anyway, at some point along the way, I realized that Jay wasn't %100, so I took over driving with a destination of Mike Troppman's house in Roxborough Village. I managed drive most of the 800 miles to get us to our destination and when we got there Jay was wiped out.
He went right to bed and I figured that it would pass and in the morning he would be ok, that was my first mistake. He wasn't better, he was much much worse. We managed to get him out of bed and to the emergency room. The Doctor on call did a great job and the next thing we know he was in the Intensive Care Unit at the Swedish Medical Center in Denver. The told me that typically anyone with blood sugar over 1000, should have died. Jay managed to get through that especially tough part and his levels are now under 400. They don't know what caused this and will get to the bottom of it in the next few days. Lesson here is don't wait when your loved ones are really sick, if in doubt bring them to the professionals and those few minutes could save their lives.

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