Condition of Billy Kemp

I will post recent emails of Billy's condition, as of today(Sun). Please continue to remember him and his family during this difficult time. Bob



On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Phil Kemp wrote:



Bob,

This is Phil, Billy's son. He's in pretty rough shape. He is on morphine, as needed, for pain, plus his oxycodone pill. He's very depressed and they've given him a couple of nerve pills for that. He has oxygen but doesn't like to use it. The 'plan' they've got him on now is just to control the pain. He has a LOT of swelling in arms, legs, feet and even hands. And his abdomen is swollen up to where it's nearly hard as a rock. Dr's won't draw off the fluid from his abdomen as they say it will only come back "with a vengence". When I pulled up his e-mail and was telling him who had e-mailed him, he said to just let you know.

Phil



Bob,

He said he doesn't care a bit for you posting his info. He has me logging into the chatroom and forum and telling him what's on there.



To bring you up to speed, Tuesday a week ago his sugar dropped during the night to a dangerous low. Mother couldn't wake him up around 7 AM so she called the ambulance and Dr, and the Dr said to give him a shot of Dextrose (she had 1), which brought him around. Ambulance came but since he was alert & oriented, they didn't transport. Same thing Wednesday morn, blood sugar in 40's, didn't have any more of the shots at home, and ambulance called. First Responders couldn't make him respond but when paramedic in ambulance came, he injected D-50 (50% dextrose solution, glucose is 5% dextrose) directly into his chemo port, and he slowly started to come around. They transported him and he stayed in hospital at Selmer until this past Tuesday. He is very swollen, as I wrote earlier. He got his hospital bed Wednesday and they started him on morphine. Either Thursday or Friday got oxygen generator and more 'stuff'. His breathing is often shallow. I came over Thursday night and my wife and I are staying til at least 11 Oct as we'd planned to do as my wife is out of school all next week (fall break, she's a school secretary). A retired doctor that they go to church with told my mom to give him all the painkillers he asked for to keep him comfortable.



But Daddy says he's ready to go. He KNOWS where he's going. He has a testimony about the Lord that would make a Baptist shout (I can say that, I'm a Baptist song leader!) Dwight's been keeping up with him regularly and he enjoys that, and Nell stays in touch. Thanks for keeping us all in your prayers. I'm checking his e-mail for him and keeping him up to date on that.

Take care,

Phil