Friday, August 01, 2008

Update 8-3-02 8:54 AM
Finally got to speak to Mom. Tried to call her yesterday but she was sleeping. She says today she feels sore all over. There was some bleeding in her brain and her belly, but the doctors now say that has stopped and everything looks good. She has alot of bruising by the seat belt and the air bag. It looks like she'll be recovering in the next couple days and she should be fine. Apparently they got hit by a "big old van" and Andy's brand new car is totalled, but at least he had insurance. Get this. When I spoke to my mom in the hospital, she seemed more concerned with how Jeshanah was feeling than how she was feeling.She said she's been praying for her to feel better. Once again, I appreciate all your prayers.
Update 8-2-08 7:26 AM
Good news: I want to say thank you to all the people who were praying for my Mom, Olga, last night. Sam told me this morning that he was told my mom's bleeding has stopped. The next 12 hours are still critical and she still needs your prayers, but things are encouraging at this point. If she can remain stable or improve over the next few hours, her likelihood of complications will go significantly down.
Update 10:15 PM
According to Sam, Andy has arrived at the hospital. Andy said that Mom is heavily sedated. They are sending her to cat scan again to see if anything has changed. He also said they got the bleeding under control. They will let us know if any thing's changed by morning.
That's all I've got so far.
UPDATE 8-1-08 9:13 PM
Mom has had her tests. Apparently she did have a little bleeding in her belly, but she seems to be doing ok for now. Sam (my brother) said that it really takes 24 hours for us to really be able to tell what effect the accident had on her. The good news is she is stable enough that they are moving her over to ICU right now. They didn't feel any immediate emergency surgery was needed which is a good sign, but some of her bleeding is from her aortic valve which may require surgery soon. Please keep her in your prayers.
UPDATE! 8-1-08 7:55 PM
This is the latest I've heard. I called the ER at St Anthony's hospital in Denver Colorado. From what I've heard, she was in a car accident, her and Andy (her husband) got T-boned and the majority of the force was taken by him. Andy's a little disoriented and sore, but otherwise fine, and is being driven by his brother (I believe) to Denver. He has not arrived yet. My mom however, just had open heart surgery for double valve replacement in January, so they life flighted her 100 miles to do some test. She is there now, and reports are that she's in "good spirits" and she's talking. They are scanning her now and said they will know alot more after they get the results which should be coming in the next few minutes. -Zion
Urgent:

Please keep my mother-in-law, Olga in you prayers. Her and Andy were in a car accident in Colorado earlier today, and she was life-flighted to a Denver Hospital. (As most of you know, she recently had a major open-heart surgery...) We are hearing that she has internal bleeding. No one is at the hospital with her yet, (Andy is still en-route, he called his neighbor who came down to tell me and Zion; unfortunately he was still at work and the only person I could get a hold of was Sam's wife, Christina.) so we don't have any further details, but I will keep you posted. Thank you for your prayers.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

From what I've heard from josh, they are also trying to get her coumadin levels under control.

Anonymous said...

some info from my brothers
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Jill said she will have more info @ 10:00 pm - josh

Mom's Accident Info
by: Israel Aug 1 7:44pm
Josh just told me they were scanning her at St. Anthony's Central Hospital in DEnver where she was Airlifted after the accident.

The nurse's name is Jill.

She is talking but woozy from medication and they don't know if she has internal injuries. They are just checking her out right now.


Called Jill the nurse she said mom
by: joshgramirez (Wildcats) Aug 1 8:43pm
has some bruises on her head, but otherwise her outward appearence seems to be ok.
She does have some bleeding of the aortic valve which may require emergency surgery. Please keep her in your prayers.


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Friday, August 01, 2008 9:34:00 PM

Sharla said...

Just to assure all the Ramirez family, we are all praying in Ohio. Jeshanah called late (for us) last night and I called a few people and all of us went to prayer with you. We expect the Lord to give her a quick and full recovery. Love to you all. :)

Israel said...

I just talked to her she says she's better and they may let her out tomorrow. She's black and blue from the seatbelt and pretty bruised up by the impact and she sounds drugged up and tired but she's OK i guess...

Sharla said...

That's great news. Praise the Lord! Be sure to give her our love.:)

BeccaHolsapple said...

Yes, praise the Lord! I'm really glad she is doing better!

Jeshanah said...

awww, she's sweet!

Unknown said...

Thanks Zion and Israel for the updates.
The kids here in Lima will be praying for her.

justin h said...

hey how is your mom/ mother-in-law? i havent seen an update in almost a week.

Anonymous said...

mom is still in the hospital,
she is having some problems with one of her lungs so she still may be in there a couple of more days. please pray for her