Easy fundraising with gift cards through Scrip Fundraising for your nonprofit, church, school or sports team. Enroll your organization now. We have a few instances of Server 2012 (one physical trial and a couple on Amazon EC2) and we frequently experience the inability to remote into the server with the message 'Please wait for the local session manager'. Archer Senft Updates 2. Please use that button at the top of this page if you want to make an online donation. We are grateful for the outpouring of support we have received. This page is dedicated to the progress and recovery of our 1. Archer Senft. After working the lunch rush in the kitchen as. He dove into a sandbar and suffered the injury. Luckily, Archer was surrounded by capable and caring lifeguards and friends, and he was quickly taken to Atlanticare Regional. We appreciate your prayers, support and words of hope during this time when it matters most. The road ahead is long, but we will be with Arch every moment. Right now, Archer is paralyzed from the top of the chest on down. The Senfts believe in miracles and the power of your prayers. Please keep praying for Archer to recover; we are storming heaven! This picture was taken outside of The Food Market in Hampden, Baltimore on Archer’s birthday last month. Archer loves to cook and bake, so the evening was extra special! LATEST UPDATE FROM THE SENFT FAMILY: Wednesday, January 1. Archer Senft. Family & Friends Update. Month 5, Day 1. 63. Wednesday. You stormed Heaven, and Heaven responded: Archer breathed on his own off the vent again. God is good. And we give thanks. Yes, Archer breathed successfully on his own, off a ventilator for 3. He has since been breathing successfully off the vent day by day, sequenced as 6. I write he is on a sprint for 1. He says it feels weird when he is back on the vent. He is so ready to breathe on his own. I can honestly say that ever since the celebration of Christ. We know you feel it with us and we thank you for every time you join with us on this journey. Free Download Link: http:// Home Page: http:// To my surprise this SmartPCFixer really helped me! So happy when it fixed my IE 10. My laptop was stolen from hostel on dec 2014. No I still get the message 'Another installation is in progress. You must complete that installation before continuing this one'. Truly, we are never alone. And we think of you all the time too. Archer will breathe off the vent. He will. A most amazing thing happened with Archer last week. Billy was the witness. I had to travel to KY and I woke up in my hotel with this experience that something happened in the night with Archer’s being off the vent. I texted Billy who was staying with him. He texted back and said Archer was fine. But he then added that Archer had needed to be suctioned over and over. I called him and he told me more, and when I got back that night, he elaborated even more still charged up about it many hours later. It is an absolutely positively outstanding, even chilling, story. Here. Archer had no symptoms of distress or impairment with his breathing. He was off the ventilator. He had been off the day before for 4 hours and he was scheduled to go for 8 hours. The RT began the chest percussion per the usual and then used the inexsufflator. She then followed the cough assist with the suction catheter. Ok, Good, said the team, no mucous. His vitals were good and it appeared he had no secretions. Archer began to make a sound. The RT then said to Billy that Archer sounded like he was growling. His oxygen saturation level was in the high 9. She said she heard him growling again. She asked Archer if she should go back down again into his lungs with the deep suction; he nodded affirmatively. Still wearing her sterile gloves she guided the catheter down into his lungs. Some thick stuff came up, not a whole lot but thick. They added some saline from a pink saline bullet. We usually do a quarter to a half of the bullet, sometimes a full bullet, in the suction session. They went down again, and unlike just minutes before, the suction tube began to bring up thick mucous, a lot of it. Archer continued to work very hard coughing as hard as he could to help bring the gunk up. The mucous did not stop. It was yellow and it was streaked with blood, something else that is not common for Archer. Each time they went down, they used more saline. The mucous was so thick they had to switch out the 1. French sterile suction catheter kits four times because the catheter was so clogged. They had to continue using lots of saline which they would squeeze into Archer. Needing more than one kit is a first. We have never since the day of injury had to go to even one other kit let alone three. And Billy said they went through 7 bullets of saline. As if that was not a feat unto itself, Archer sweating and writhing and working it very very hard, nodding yes to go again and again back down, bringing up tons and tons of mucous, boatloads of it, it then happened. The RT continued to go down, it had been about 4. Archer coughing as hard as his diaphragm would allow, and each time as his body writhed and Billy held both very strong now arms down at his side as if in a straight jacket, per Archers request, he was, Billy said, just sort of growling and then. It was a solid cylindrical bloody thing. It was way too big to slither through a 1. French catheter, but the Catheter had broken part of it up, enough that Archer was able to cough it up just enough to see it in the top of his open trach in his neck. He was gagging and writhing to get it out. Using the strong suction of the 1. French, the RT coaxed it out, and out slithered a full 7 inches long, dark brown OLD very bloody solid mucousy dark yellow brown plug bigger than anyone had ever ever seen. Billy said it was like pulling the devil out of his lungs. Billy said it was the most disturbing and frightening process and most horrifying thing to look at, as well as the most exhilarating. Is that crazy or what? And prior to this session, No distress. But there was the growl. Things are happening now that Archer is moving off the vent. Oh yes, things are moving. It was the work of his own breathing and strong diaphragm that brought that Growler up. It is the vent and the pressure of the vent that kept it inside his lungs. Imagine how much longer that old thing may have remained in his lungs if he had stayed solely on the vent. Again, the miracle of the body, especially when it is allowed to function as intended. Thank you God for the miracle of our bodies. They really are to be beheld and marveled at. And thank you to all your believers. This was a work of your majesty with everyone doing their part, and doing it well. Using the gifts you have given. The RT did a magnificent job. It was a huge growth moment for her as she was one of the tentative RTs when we first arrived, afraid to go down when Archer so desperately needed her too, and part of the reason for the weeks of set back. As I write, I think there was actually something redemptive for her as I think about it. And we forgive them all. They have chosen to listen now. Oh, see what listening does. Let us give thanks for our ability to listen. Is there someone you need to listen to? It will be good for you too. Let us give thanks to our ability to be thankful too. Have you ever thought about that? In order to be thankful, we call upon our ability to be reflective, our ability to look back and to be thoughtful. And when we do both, it allows us to gain insights, and often leaves us infused with hope that strengthens us in both the present moment as well as when we look to the future. I know you are thankful for so many things. Just choose one at this moment, one thing or person or experience or asset or whatever it is, one that you are thankful for. Place all your attention on it. And if someone is thanking you, allow yourself to receive it fully. A state of thankfulness is a full state. I am thankful for the RT and Billy and their determination and for Archer and his grit and strength he mustered to get that Growler up and out of there. She heard the growl. Let us be thankful for our ability to use our ears in conjunction with our hearts, our intuition. What a difference it makes to tap into intuition. I wish I could do it all the time. I have been cultivating my own intuition for many years. Our lionhearted son, who lounges and grazes, has big paws, and when ready and desirous, pounces and leaps, to surprise us. Archer will surprise us. It will be majestic as God will use Archer. I think that is what is happening. We had asked KKI if they could assist us with transportation for the TLOA and we were told it was not something they did. But that did not make sense to me, since a mere day prior they had said that a great number of their population served were families with little means. I thought surely they would thus have lists of resources for affordable transportation, including alternatives to owning your own vehicle transportation, for kids in wheelchairs. So, asking again, coupled with sharing what did not make sense to me, much to their credit they tried, and it was great. We both started making calls, and then Billy and I got our children in on the research project and we came up with a couple viable options, one of which was Yellow Cab. Yep, good ol Yellow Cab. It was $3. 0 each way, well worth it. We are all about learning from different experiences. This time, it was a rear entrance ramp that folded out for Archer to roll in and out on. The front two bottom braces of his powerchair were attached to two large retractable seatbelt like straps. As he did, we yelled, Watch your head! It was the same set up I am sure for hauling a motorcycle or scooter or other piece of equipment, or horse. And, they also very generously sent Archer a pair of real Ray Bans much to his delight. He asked to wear both home in the taxi. He is really like his old self for sure. Here is a picture from Saturday. He looks really great doesn? Always so happy, probably happiest, when going home. And almost off all antidepressants which he so wanted and doesn. We had the same desire and, with regular pushing of the issue, our medical team began weaning him. He said he feels great and better than ever. Thank God we never had any heavy doses when just about every facility recommended bigger doses just because of being a quadriplegic. Archer is really strong. God is really Strong living as he does in Archer. I really thank God every day for that because imagine what Archer could be doing or thinking or feeling about himself, his life that could be very dark and negative and ruined.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
September 2016
Categories |