Jan 16th

Hello, it was a rough start this morning. I arrived at the hospital at 8am, a half/hour prior to visiting hours to see Marion before his surgery, only to learn that it was on hold due to his clotting time. I was so discouraged for him! His INR was over 1.6 and earlier in Jan it had only gotten down to 1.34 after approximately 60 units of fresh frozen plazma. Today they gave him 2 units in hopes of lowering the number enough to be able to do at least the trach tomorrow. By this afternoon his INR was down to 1.5 or 1.58 and tentatively they are planning to do the trach procedure only in the ICU with 2 physicians and RT on hand about 10:30am. We'll see what the morning brings. He was trying strenuously to communicate with his hands and even his mouth, so I certainly hope that he can start back towards being able to speak tomorrow. Heavenly Father has seen him this far and Marion is going strong, he was attempting to draw circles in the air with his leg today, he has a lot of spirit left in him, thank you for the prayers. Love, Sue