Sarah Update - Thursday Night - 8:45 pm - Sept. 15th, 2011

Today marks Day 7 of Sarah's Hospital Stay. It's hard to believe that a week has gone by, and really 11 days since this whole headache thing began on Labor Day. Unreal.

As for today's progress, there is most assuredly a noticable difference in Sarah's countenance from this morning until now. She definitely still has a headache, but the nauseousness has diminished quite a bit. But today was not without its eventfulness.

Throughout the day the doctors and nurses worked to try and find the right medication combination to get her nausea and headache to lessen. Sarah spent most of the day lying flat with her eyes covering the light. She has been able to get up and go to the restroom with the nurse's help which she describes as "the highlight of her day... to be in another room."

One bright spot associated with that is at this point she's saying that there is no difference between the pressure when she's laying down, and when she's sitting up. Which could be related to the Lumbar Drain that they inserted yesterday.

The Lumbar Drain is working as it should and is draining 10 cc's of Spinal Fluid off of her spine per hour. The goal is to lessen the pressure on the spinal fluid tube especially at the base thus giving the body a chance to heal the tear (if there is one... according to the Surgeon.) This will be the procedure for the entire weekend, through Monday as we understand it.

Please continue to pray that complete healing of the tear will take place and that in the immediate all the pain in her head will disappear.

On a family front, Alison is staying tonight in the room with Sarah, because last night was pretty rough for her. The boys are excited about being able to spend the weekend together with her. They certainly are missing their mom. Drew said tonight at the dinner table, "It's just not right that mom's not here..." It's true. It's just not right.

After dinner, the boys were able to go up to the hospital and visit with Sarah for a little while. When they walked in they were greeted by a rather vast array of flowers from so many of you! (Thanks by the way... they're beautifiul) However, the boys wanted me to mention that,

"In leau of flowers, because she has plenty of those, why not tell people that we think mom would appreciate Game Stop Gift Cards, Rays Tickets and Dairy Queen Gift Certificates! Thanks... from the boys!"

Finally, thanks again to everyone for all of your prayers and support throughout this whole ordeal. We know God is with us and His timing is perfect, but are anxious for Him to complete the healing.

Feel free to comment, FB, or Twitter encouragements, they bring hope to Sarah and I and keep our faith strong.

Matt Keller

I want to thank all of you for respecting the NO VISITORS restriction. Its helping Sarah be able to rest and recover in the best way possible.