Urgent Prayer Request

You may remember that Philip's Mom, Carol is fighting acute leukemia right now. She is living in Miami. Philip and his sister went to visit her in Florida two weekends ago (returned to TX on the 17th) and she seemed to be doing well and responding well to her chemo and other treatments. I spoke with her on Tuesday evening and she was feeling very crummy, had a lot of pain and had a high fever.

Philip got a call at about 1am this morning from Carol's Doctor in Miami. She has taken an unexpected turn for the worse and have been moved to the critical care unit (ICU). She has had a fever for about a week (since her first round of chemo ended) from 102-104 and they now think she has sepsis. They have changed her medications and are treating it aggressively, but it hasn't been responding. She is now in kidney and liver failure and has been intubated and placed on a ventilator. She is sedated. Philip's uncle, Mark is going up there early this morning. Her white blood cell count is very low (o.3), but her vitals are being maintained at a stable level. Philip and Tamara are hoping to have a phone conference with the attending physician this morning. The resident that Philip spoke with said that if it were him, he would try to come to see her soon. It isn't sounding very good.

Please pray for Carol and the family. Please specifically pray for Philip, his sister Tamara, his uncle Mark and his Dad, Allen. Please pray for the best care to be given to Carol and for her to have as little pain and discomfort as possible. Pray that she knows how much we all care for her and that her family loves her. It is hard being so far away. Please pray for God's presence to be felt by all of us. I will update more when I know more. We GREATLY appreciate your prayers.