Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Written by Dr. & Mrs. Keith Gomez @ 7:00AM

 My dear friends,

Continue to hold Josh up in fervent prayer. He is more alert now than ever. He is responding to our questions and he told me yesterday that he understood everything I was saying to him. However, there is an infection in his body and the doctors cannot pinpoint it. They do not know if it is from his lungs, the cranial area, or his sinuses. There is a lot of blood still in the sinus area because of the multiple fractures. The doctors are limiting visitors. Josh is in an isolation situation because their biggest fight right now is to prevent him from catching something which could set him way back. Please pray that they will find what this infection is. Atrophy is prevalent as muscle tone is deteriorating because of being on his back for 17 days. Continue to pray that the ventilator would be removed from his throat and that he would be able to be free of the respirator.

Thank you for the hundreds of cards, letters and phone calls. The Caring Bridge website has been hit 10,000 times, which is phenomenal. To you who may want to log on, scroll down from this update to the www.caringbridge.org link, click on that. Then scroll down to the Guestbook and click on “visit guestbook.”  It would be a blessing if you would sign in and jot a note of encouragement to Josh. He will certainly enjoy reading all of these notes once he is able.

 Thank you again for all of your encouragement to us.

 Yours, for Christ’s sake,

 Dr. & Mrs. Keith & Carla Gomez