UPDATE 6/23/17 for Pastor Tom Higgins
Pastor Tom continues the slow process of healing in "baby steps" but with no set-backs this week! He is up in a recliner about 6-8 hours each day, still napping a lot but is alert when awake. Much of the time he speaks and responds to questions appropriately though at tiumes is "fuzzy" mentally. His doictors are reassurring this is normal for a person who spent much of the previuous month on a vent and heavily sedated in ICU. He recognizes people and is trying to shift through the pieces to understand "How this happened" to him. He is taking in spoonfuls of pudding or ice cream with his meds however his ability to swallow is still poor. Of course Tom's primary voiced concern is for the emotional well being of those of his current and previous church families. Tom is out of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and in a regular room. The "no visitors" request continues pending improvement in his health. Feel the care and love of oneanother and let us lean together in these prayerful, hopeful days. Pastor Dianna Niemann-Harris
Pastor Tom continues the slow process of healing in "baby steps" but with no set-backs this week! He is up in a recliner about 6-8 hours each day, still napping a lot but is alert when awake. Much of the time he speaks and responds to questions appropriately though at tiumes is "fuzzy" mentally. His doictors are reassurring this is normal for a person who spent much of the previuous month on a vent and heavily sedated in ICU. He recognizes people and is trying to shift through the pieces to understand "How this happened" to him. He is taking in spoonfuls of pudding or ice cream with his meds however his ability to swallow is still poor. Of course Tom's primary voiced concern is for the emotional well being of those of his current and previous church families. Tom is out of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and in a regular room. The "no visitors" request continues pending improvement in his health. Feel the care and love of oneanother and let us lean together in these prayerful, hopeful days. Pastor Dianna Niemann-Harris