Tuesday, July 14, 2009

PRAYERS NEEDED!

I am writing from Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids. My best gal, Melissa Eich-Reuter, is here in the ICU. She had a cardiac arrest and is currently in a coma. The cardiac arrest was due to low potassium which controls the electric part of the heart. Her husband, Josh, luckily heard the sound of the crash in the middle of the night when she collapsed, and he's trained in CPR. They're hopeful that she didn't go without oxygen for long and there'll be no brain damage; Josh saved her life. The ICU is doing a procedure where they cool her body down and keep her organs and breathing going. This keeps her brain from having to perform these tasks right now. They just started heating her body back up, and this process takes about 12 hours. They're hoping she'll come to once her body is warmed up, and at that time they'll do some tests to see how her brain is functioning. PLEASE PRAY!