Please Pray for Dr. Mohler (Updated)

Thanks to Tim Challies for alerting me to this on his site. It seems that Dr. Mohler is not doing so well. Here is the statement from Mohler’s blog:

Dr. Mohler’s health has sustained a setback. Over the past 36 hours Dr. Mohler has suffered from unrelenting pain. This unusual degree of pain signaled concern for the attending physicians and prompted additional tests this afternoon. In the past hour these tests have revealed that Dr. Mohler is suffering from pulmonary emboli in both lungs. His condition is quite serious and he has been moved to the intensive care unit of Baptist East Hospital in Louisville, KY for immediate treatment.

 

Please make this a matter of urgent prayer. Thank you once again for your concern and support during these days.

Thanks to Tim for providing these links: “Background information is here and here.”

 

Also, here is additional information on the details of a pulmonary embolism.

 

UPDATE:

A good report from Dr. Russell Moore:

I just left from visiting Albert Mohler at the intensive care unit of Baptist East Hosptial here in Louisville. I am glad to report that he is doing much better than he was when I spoke to the radio audience of the program about this at 5:05 PM.

While his situation is still very serious, it seems that the doctors have his treatment well underway and he is recuperating well. Pulmonary emboli represent a serious concern under any circumstances but it seems that RAM is responding excellently to the treatment. We can all be grateful the doctors found this development so quickly.

The President is talking and in good spirits. Despite his incredible pain and having just lived through the scare of his life, he was actually able to discuss a book I brought to him the other day about, of all things, the life of Wendell Willkie.

Dr. Mohler still needs your prayers, as do Mary, Katie, and Christopher, so please don’t stop them. But I am happy to say that I think his treatment is going well and I expect that he will be back to his life as normal sooner rather than later.

 

 

Fridee Variety

This is a post on no particular subject…just a few things rattling around in my head:

PIC: I always like to be able to put a face with a name, and thought you might like to do that as well with respect to this site. So, here is picture of Pam and me, taken on Christmas Eve by my daughter, Rachel.

THANKS and PRAYER: As I am typing this, we are experiencing a tornado warning in my area. We only got a little bit of wind and some heavy rain, but in the distance I can hear the sound of emergency vehicle sirens. I am thankful we received no damage, and pray that those around us are well and safe (Pam just came in and told me that the worst damage is only about a mile or so from our subdivision).

CRAZY NIK:

I was reading a very basic book (Tog the Dog) to my four-year-old, Nikolas. It is from a series of books that helps youngsters with similar sounding words. This one was about Tog the dog, who tripped on a log, fell into a bog, scared a frog and was rescued out of the bog by a hog. Anyway, the book separates the first letter from the rest of the word, allowing the reader to practice their word sounds, ie, ‘d’ plus ‘og’ equals ‘dog’, ‘l’ plus ‘og’ equals ‘log’, etc. Nikolas was repeating after me as I sounded out the letter sounds and resulting words. Well, when I got to hog, Nik said, ” ‘h’ plus ‘og’ equals ‘PIG!’ “. He’s such a crack up!

GIGI: If you have followed the situation with our friend Gigi Locke (if not, check the upper right corner of this site), here is an update not yet on their care page. It looks like she will be having chemo treatments for a whole year in an attempt to slow the growth and size of the cancer so that it might become operable. Pray for the Locke family and for healing, and most importantly, pray for God to be glorified and for His will to be done.

YOU’RE FIRED!: After having been late on the one previous to this one by a couple of days…and then forgetting this one altogether,

my eleven-year-old daughter, Rachel, has just fired the Tooth Fairy…ME! She has known the truth for quite some time, but still insists on receiving money for her teeth.