Prayer Mailing List: Dennis Phariss from David Phariss

[Mark Krause (mkrause111]

Update on dad 

So they tried to wake him up again earlier this morning and it didn’t go well. 
They tried once this morning and he started resisting it again and was unable 
to follow commands again. His heart started going through tachycardia again and 
so they had to put him back under. They tried a second time when his doctor was 
in and he did the same thing so his doctor decided to chemically paralyze him 
again for his own safety. 

Tachycardia is when the heart beats extremely fast for no apparent reason. He 
has had problems with this in the past and had a procedure done about a year 
ago that basically shocked his heart back into a normal rhythm. Right now his 
heart rate is staying steady around 170bpm even though he is sedated. The 
cardiologist came in earlier and stated that since he was bleeding internally 
after the surgery, they had to take him off blood thinners, which worked 
because his blood levels have lined out. The bad part about that is they can’t 
shock his heart right now to get it back to normal because he has to be on 
blood thinners for the procedure because it could cause a blood clot that could 
lead to a stroke. The cardiologist thinks that the tachycardia is coming from 
his body being under so much stress over the last few days since the emergency 
surgery. 

They are trying to control the tachycardia with medication right now and if 
that doesn’t work in a day or so then they will weigh the risks with the shock 
procedure. 

As of right now the main factor in keeping him sedated is his heart. His oxygen 
is also a factor but it is getting better. He was down to 40% assisted oxygen 
yesterday and is still at 40% but the machine is doing the breathing because of 
the chemical paralysis. 

Dad basically has 10 more days to come out of this before they have to take out 
the intubation tube. If he is still where he is at in 10 days, a decision will 
have to me made to either take out the tube and make him comfortable and hope 
that he can come out of this on his own or give him a tracheotomy so that they 
can still help him with the breathing machine. 

He still has a long way to go before he gets out of the woods. Much prayers 
still needed. Thank you for your prayers and love for my parents.

May God bless you and yours abundantly!!

Mark Krause
1st UMC Mertzon
105 W Juanita Ave 
Po box 583
Mertzon, TX. 76941
325-315-6659
Cell 830-486-6526