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Ok all you prayer warriors out there it is time to start holding our brother Alan up in Prayer....Call your prayer chains and get them on it too. He needs lots of intervention sound like. Thanks Claudette for the updates. Jan

I will keep him in my prayers and will get him on my prayer chain.......I will try and call him later at lunch.... Thanks Claudette..... God bless Rachael

Thanks Claudette for keeping us updated, I'll call our prayer chain at church and keep him in prayer all day, I'll also try to give him a call this afternoon. Andrew

we are going to pray hard for him and will put him on the prayer list at church...God bless Alan we all love him and lift him up to you in Jesus name amen....,.vesta

Claudette, Thank you for the info. I am praying for Allen and will send out the word. My friend nancy is home from the hospital with her bout of pneumonia. Thanks to all for her prayers. Julia

Just got off the phone with Alan. He said in spite of all that's going on, he actually feels pretty good today - he said he feels 100%. They did a chemical stress test on him today (does not have results back) and they also did an Echocardiogram later in the day after he got back to his room. He says it's likely his issue Saturday night was a mild heart attack - had the symptoms...pressure on left side, pain radiating into his left arm and jaw. He said it was rather painful but after they got him to the ER the low dose aspirin and nitro did the trick to get the pain under control. Since then he's felt fine. Says now that they've got him on plavix and other meds for high cholesterol and high blood pressure, and also heparin too to thin his blood out. The leg - they got cultures back today and he's got a rather nasty staph infection. So he's got antibiotics pumping in as well. They've already done an x-ray on the leg and tomorrow they plan to do the bone scan that Claudette mentioned in order to determine if the infection has gotten into the bone. They're also discussing doing a scope to get a better look at his heart and they are getting Dr. Edwards involved in case what they do involves going down the throat...does not want issues with the new stomach. Alan says he's got numerous Doctors working with him - he just wants to get out and get home. He says he feels like he's taking a step forward and four back but he's excited that his weight loss is up to 60 pounds. What amazing optimism he has!!! I let him know that he's got alot of folks praying for him - he appreciates it!!! Keep the prayers going - hopefully he'll be out of the woods and home soon! Cards Fan Springfield, MO