Dec/31/09
Happy New Years! It’s New Years Eve here in South Auckland, New Zealand.
Winkie was discharged from Middlemore hospital late this afternoon. He is at home with us now, sleeping as I type.He is expected to be on medication for at least three months, something normally a natural health advocate such as he would never want to be. But he hasn’t put up a fight on that front. The only things we’ve had to fight him for, have been putting his socks on, brushing his teeth…silly little things. We are so thankful for all the prayers that went out for him. I just want to say, that just because he is with us at home, he by no means is recovered. He has made progress, but is still quite impaired. He is in no condition to be giving any kind of teaching, or answering any kind of complicated theological question right now.
We’re also planning on keeping him off his computer for a while. So if you’ve sent him facebook, myspace, or email messages, I wouldn’t expect any kind of response from Winkie, at least not at this time. Special thanks go out to David, Dale and Melinda Garratt (www.davidanddalegarratt.com), for their help during this time. Everyday they’ve been bringing Winkie and us delicious homemade meals, some of which are probably straight out of Dale’s hospitality/cookbook. Special thanks go out also to the Ministry of Helps team (www.moh.org), including Dee Patton and Israel Anderson for posting these blogs and keeping you guys informed. His Way Church International (www.hiswaychurch.com) have also been a big blessing to us during this time, helping (along with David Garratt) get the word out to various churches, keeping us in prayer, and sending flowers. We appreciate you His Way! Thanks also to all the other churches and individuals that have been praying for Winkie and us, his family, at this time. May God bless you!Winkie will be on meds to maintain his blood pressure (too much could cause another bleed), pain (he still gets headaches – something he was having right before the incident; too much pain apparently increases blood pressure), and to guard him against seizures (doctors told us one seizure could kill him). Most of the natural health remedies we would normally use, we have been told, would actually have the opposite effect on someone with his condition, a hemmorhagic stroke. (See “hemmorhagic stroke” in the Merck Manuals Online Library: http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec06/ch086/ch086d.html?qt=stroke&alt=sh) So no cayenne pepper! ): Nothing to thin his blood. Not even Winkie’s advocated nattokinase, which he usually uses in place of aspirin when he travels. Please pray first of all for us (Mom and I, and those doctors that will be working with him), that we would give him exactly what he needs in order to give his body the best fighting chance to effectively (and quickly) deal with the blood clot sitting in his brain, and also for Winkie, that God would bring him to the point of full functionality again, utilizing that amazing brain of his! Winkie’s memory is still slowly coming back (the morning this all happened he couldn’t remember our names, his own date of birth, or even tell where he was, so he’s made vast improvement…) It looks like it could take a while though (at least from a medical standpoint – God can do anything). We covet your prayers at this time.
Good to hear, also, from so many of you. Love and greetings back at ya! With regards,William
Winkie was discharged from Middlemore hospital late this afternoon. He is at home with us now, sleeping as I type.He is expected to be on medication for at least three months, something normally a natural health advocate such as he would never want to be. But he hasn’t put up a fight on that front. The only things we’ve had to fight him for, have been putting his socks on, brushing his teeth…silly little things. We are so thankful for all the prayers that went out for him. I just want to say, that just because he is with us at home, he by no means is recovered. He has made progress, but is still quite impaired. He is in no condition to be giving any kind of teaching, or answering any kind of complicated theological question right now.
We’re also planning on keeping him off his computer for a while. So if you’ve sent him facebook, myspace, or email messages, I wouldn’t expect any kind of response from Winkie, at least not at this time. Special thanks go out to David, Dale and Melinda Garratt (www.davidanddalegarratt.com), for their help during this time. Everyday they’ve been bringing Winkie and us delicious homemade meals, some of which are probably straight out of Dale’s hospitality/cookbook. Special thanks go out also to the Ministry of Helps team (www.moh.org), including Dee Patton and Israel Anderson for posting these blogs and keeping you guys informed. His Way Church International (www.hiswaychurch.com) have also been a big blessing to us during this time, helping (along with David Garratt) get the word out to various churches, keeping us in prayer, and sending flowers. We appreciate you His Way! Thanks also to all the other churches and individuals that have been praying for Winkie and us, his family, at this time. May God bless you!Winkie will be on meds to maintain his blood pressure (too much could cause another bleed), pain (he still gets headaches – something he was having right before the incident; too much pain apparently increases blood pressure), and to guard him against seizures (doctors told us one seizure could kill him). Most of the natural health remedies we would normally use, we have been told, would actually have the opposite effect on someone with his condition, a hemmorhagic stroke. (See “hemmorhagic stroke” in the Merck Manuals Online Library: http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec06/ch086/ch086d.html?qt=stroke&alt=sh) So no cayenne pepper! ): Nothing to thin his blood. Not even Winkie’s advocated nattokinase, which he usually uses in place of aspirin when he travels. Please pray first of all for us (Mom and I, and those doctors that will be working with him), that we would give him exactly what he needs in order to give his body the best fighting chance to effectively (and quickly) deal with the blood clot sitting in his brain, and also for Winkie, that God would bring him to the point of full functionality again, utilizing that amazing brain of his! Winkie’s memory is still slowly coming back (the morning this all happened he couldn’t remember our names, his own date of birth, or even tell where he was, so he’s made vast improvement…) It looks like it could take a while though (at least from a medical standpoint – God can do anything). We covet your prayers at this time.
Good to hear, also, from so many of you. Love and greetings back at ya! With regards,William
