Friday, September 7, 2007

Friday Morning

Dear Friends,

Your prayers are needed. Rachel is in very critical condition. The situation the family is possibly imminently facing is deciding weather or not to take Rachel off of life support. Yesterday afternoon during a routine neck adjustment an artery (in her neck) became compromised and started to bleed, which caused bleeding in her brain & an aneurysm. She's since suffered a few small strokes & a seizure. She was life-flight-ed to Iowa City & rushed into emergency surgery to break up the very large clot in her brain. The surgery did not go well. For a while she was in a quasi stable state. Briefly after the sedation began to wear off she was responsive to voices. Then she became unresponsive, (eyes were not dilating) & was rushed into a cat-scan. We're waiting on the results. Rachel is in a life-&-death situation. The family is in crisis mode. Please pray.

Thanks, Emily Humble (friend of the family)

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