Day 37 - July 22 - Another hurdle
This morning we arrived to be told that Connor is running another fever, and they have found psuedomonas and MRSA (usually referred to as "mersa") in his lungs. For those non-medical types like me, I've taken the liberty of looking these up -
Pseudomonas - P. aeruginosa is an opportunistic human pathogen, most commonly affecting immunocompromised patients, such as those with cystic fibrosis or AIDS. Infection can affect many different parts of the body, but infections typically target the respiratory tract (e.g. patients with CF or those on mechanical ventilation), causing bacterial pneumonia. Treatment of such infections can be difficult due to multiple antibiotic resistance.
MRSA - MRSA stands for 'methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus'. It's a strain of staph that's resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. MRSA can be fatal.
Basically, they are antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The nurses tell us that these will respond to vincomyacin. I hope they're right, as some of the research I've done on the web (yeah, I know) indicates that once you get MRSA, you have to deal with it your whole life if it doesn't kill you.
While the word is that he's responding slowly regarding his pneumonia, the doctors were making noises about the upside-down bed. They want to avoid it if they can, because it will affect the evulsion wound caused by his trach tube.
It seems like all I do these days is pass on more prayer requests. Hopefully, I'll be able to forward some praises before too long...
posted by Eric Williamson @ 11:22 AM
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Praying with you now.
The Lord has us where He wants us, at His feet on our face,
Eph.3:20-21
To Him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to Him be glory.
Covering you in our prayers and praising Him for His mercies.
IN Christ, Praying in Downey
Don't feel bad about posting the prayer requests. I find myself checking your blogs often throughout the day to see what's happening. I know how quickly things can change. Praise the Lord for the internet to keep everyone posted and the prayers going up.
Bless you all.
Charlene, Albany, OR
Thanks for the updates and letting me know how I can pray during the day . Keeping you all in my Prayers
Adrienne
Praying for all your requests, old and new, and praising God for things He has done, and will continue to do. He is faithful, and He is good. Hang in there.
Tex/Cherie/Joelle - Connor is a strong young man with an amazing support team. He'll make it over this hurdle too, albeit a bit higher than the others. I'm sending all my supportive, good thoughts your way.
Lisa
Keep the faith Eric...there is a medicine that can help...there is hope still...God is IN CONTROL...HE has a plan...He is working mightily...
Love you and wishing I could be there to help hold you all up,
Evalena
Blessings to you all, I was just on my face praying crying out to our Lord, also thanking Him for Kent and praying for his safe arrival, then I felt the Lord telling me that He is bringing Kent because Eric needs a strong shoulder right now someone with man thoughts someone close someone to share his pain with. So thank You Lord for Kent I know Your plans are perfect and You are in complete control of every situation that comes up, Amen!
I don't know how long it's been sense your last visit but I pray it will lift your spirits and give strength to you all.
Love you all, praying in Downey
I constantly check your blogs through out the day at work. Thanks for keeping us all updated and praying for the right things.
As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you: Isaiah 66:15
Your prayer warriors are there for you, Connor and the rest of your family.
The Coleman's
Connor, Eric, Cherie, Joelle-
I wish I had something uplifting, profound, or even humorous to share to brighten you day. I really don't. But I thought I'd write anyway just to tell you that I check Connor's blog at least twice a day and read every word. I'm confident that Connor will heal. I'm confident that it may be too soon to see that or sometimes even to believe that, but I remain confident.
Courage.
Donna Hamilton
Tumwater WA
I've been unable to check up on my "family" as our internet is down. How I have missed listening to the Williamson family, continue to praise our Lord, despita all they have been dealt. Praise him for their strength!
Dear Willamson Family,
We are here - lifting up Connor and all of you in prayer. Praying for the doctors, the nurses and support staff and the medications.
You are doing exactly what you are suppose to do - putting your needs and requests for prayer out to your "family". We are here - you are not alone!
Sandi
Gilroy
God is our strength always, especially in un certain times! We will intrust this latest bacteria and all to our Almighty God. When the praises come, we'll all give him the glory for the great things he has done!
I know Connor's desire to be restored and his desire to share the Lord are working in his beahalf. I am trusting the Lord for Connor's healing. I believe God is using Connor as a witness even now, though rolling in his bed. Connor your attitude and care for your family is a testimony to many!
The Lord tells us to lay our burdens at his feet and reach for his strength.
Praying for His strength for you,
Krista
Lewis
Praying. May His will be done and may we all grow in wisdom and strength of faith to obediently follow Him.
iamjustone
Eric we all see your heart and the other email was not taken bad at all.
we so understand what you are saying even between the lines. its your fathers heart trying your hardest to wrap yourself around all that you see everyday in your son. please feel free to write anything knowing you are among family. all your requests ,posts and praises...offer us a way to pray for just what you are all needing. thank you for that...thank you Cherie, Eric and Joelle for your heart felt posts as well. we value them...may God grant you the peace in the midst of all this the way only He can.
we love you all...
mary for the carlos family
(fishgirl)
I'm tired too. This battle can wear ya out. And so, I let the Word of God that I have hidden in my heart speak to me.
Come unto me all ye who are weary and I will give you rest.
Those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength.
God is the Lifter of my head.
He will keep you in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Him.
I will lift up my eyes to the hills from which comes my strength. My strength comes from the Lord. (That's where Him being the Lifter of my head comes in handy, because when I'm so tired, I find my head hanging down.)
Like you, I find encouragement from these dear ones who blog and testify that the Lord is good through prayers, song, poems, personal experiences, expressions of love and compassion. And right now I am most grateful that we truly are one Body. I feel like a hand that has gone to sleep and is almost useless. Thank God there are other parts of the Body who/that function as they should and can keep carrying this Body along in spite of a tired or numb hand.
As I read the blogs above I thought, "Ditto that!" And thank God He understands our weariness and promises to carry us through.
I'm still believing for miracles in all shapes and sizes. Not just in Connor's body, but in many lives.
Upon seeing the blog yesterday about Kent and Brad's documentary "Rebellion of Thought", I searched out some background on the internet. It was amazing to learn more about your family. I had no idea who I was dealing with here. The Williamsons are quite an annointed family. (That has been evident in the way you are dealing with all this, but WoW!) It makes my mind wonder if satan was so furious about this work through the film that he wanted to destroy you all! It makes me wonder if God is allowing satan to try you so drastically because He has such confidence in how you handle this for His glory. You have been called for this challenge and it is HUGE. It is going to reap such amazing things for The Kingdom we can't imagine it all. My spirit knows this, but right now my emotions are saying, "Hasn't this been going on long enough, Lord?"
I'll bounce back. God promised He'd help me. I just feel like I'm sweaty and dusty and short of breath. I guess even a prayer warrior can find the Full Armour of God seem "hedgie". Perhaps God is allowing me to feel a tiny part of the weight you carry. The weight that we try to carry for you with the understanding that Jesus wants to carry it for all of us.
Please pray that in my weakness God's strength will rise up. That I will be a more effective pray-er and that He would help me crush the head of the serpent whom God has given me authority over, through Jesus Christ. All power and victory is HIS.
By His Grace, your sister IN CHRIST,
Renée
I to am confused, why??? I have never prayed so much in my life for all of you and others in need. I realize now, how blessed I am to have good health and will continue to pray for all of you and yours.
Love
Joey
The prayers and the songs that people post here become my prayers. I think that's one way that the Spirit prays for us-by giving other people's words so we can add our "Amen." Mike always said prayer is hard work. He's right. But we want our prayers to be effective and meaningful, so we long to read your words and know what you most need. You don't have to share with all of us so openly, but your deepest, heartfelt pleas help us lift you up and you don't have to bear the burden alone. I am so thankful that you have given us the privilege of hearing and feeling your inmost heart and that you have allowed us to go to the Father for you as a part of your loving family.
Praying now for these immediate needs.
Michele for the Harveys
The Williamson Family,
I've been checking on the progress of Connor and reading all the updates. Each time I log on, I'm profoundly struck by your strength in the face of such a terrifying situation. As a parent of 2 beautiful children, I would like to think that if I were in your shoes, I would be half as strong as you all have been.
Connor is such a blessed young man to have you as his family and this website for his extended "family". With this tremendous network of support and love, there isn't anything that Connor can't accomplish.
Although we've never met, I think of you all often and pray for your continued strength and Connors continued healing. I want to thank you for taking the time out of your day to keep us all up to date on the twists and turns that your precious sons recovery is taking. I have no doubts that he will heal and live a long, fruitful life. However, in the meantime, we are all here for you and are cheering you on from the sidelines.
The Aldrich family in Ullin, Illinois
Eric,
If you didn't pass on more prayer requests, I'd be out of a job! ;)
All joking aside, I thank you for being diligent in sharing requests for and answers to prayer. Doing so enables us to grasp how serious Connor's situation is (if we're not there to *see* him, it's easy to take for granted that "no news is good news"), and to pray for him immediately. Because of your posts, I feel like I'm *with* you guys even though I'm 3 hours away.
Though I don't always manage to type in a comment, know that I read every post you enter and every comment people offer. I thank the LORD for the technology that allows a global community to spring-up virtually overnight. You're not alone. We're all here for you, praying in one accord with perfect unity that is made possible through the Holy Spirit.
Know that I'm praying fervently for Connor's health. I'm praying with equal gravity that God will sustain and encourage you, Cherie and Joelle as you go through this trial on the front line. And thank you for sharing your burdens with us. I count it a privilege to go before our LORD and lay your requests at His feet knowing He hears us all and loves us.
In Christ,
Jenann
Dear Williamson family,
As you know there are MANY of us that check the site hourly to hear what we can be praying for. SO thank you for letting us know what your needs are so we can be on our knees! We are sad that it has to be you, but what a witness you are of Gods awesome power and love. He is holding you close and what a blessing you can have family close to you all.
Hope the precious Granny is better. Know that you all will be in our prayers and held close to our hearts and thoughts.
Myers Family
Morgan Hill
Eric
My stepdad had this MRSA and we got the same cautions that he would have it always and it could prove fatal, he too was on a ventilator. He was 82 and not nearly as strong as Connor and he made it through with the MRSA and off the ventilator and eventually into rehab (following a head injury). He too had been given a pretty dismal prognosis, but God........
Praying with you,
SWrye
Eric,
To live out your faith in this blog format with all the world watching is the most amazing example of a modern man fully and completely devoted to Him. Your struggles are felt by all who visit here and the powerful presence of our Father in control warms my heart. Still praying. KT
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