Prayer Request

Probably everyone who reads my blog already knows about this, but just in case.....

Jay is the brother of my sweet sister-in-law, Julie. He is in the hospital and things are not great.
Here is some information from the blog that Christy set up for him:

John "Jay" Denison was admitted to the ICU at Arcadia Methodist Hospital on Friday evening (May 1) with a serious infection in his body. We were told to expect that he would be in the hospital for a few days to treat the infection with IV antibiotics.

About 2:30am Saturday morning, his condition collapsed and he went into cardiac arrest twice, as the overwhelming infection was attacking his entire body. If he were not otherwise healthy and relatively young (51) he would not have made it back at this point. He is heavily sedated and on a ventilator. His liver and kidneys shut down and his heart has been seriously damaged, but it is doing the job right now. His brain was probably oxygen deprived when he suffered the cardiac arrests. The extent of that is unknown, but there’s a couple of positive indicators in that when they reduced his sedation he does respond to pain and occasionally moves his body with intentional movements.

Currently, it is very critical that they get his kidneys and liver working again so that he will have a chance at surviving. If they are unable to get his organs working again, there is not much else they can do for him.

Sunday night they brought in the best vascular surgeon in Southern California to insert a catheter to start dialysis. Dialysis is necessary to clean the toxins out of his blood which will set the stage for his liver and kidneys to hopefully restart. The procedure was quite dangerous because his blood is very thin and he could have bled out. The procedure took an hour (though it normally takes 5 minutes) but it was successful and he has been on dialysis since late Sunday night. It will be another day or so until they will see any signs if the dialysis is working or not. There is nothing they can do to "jump start" the kidneys and liver. They have to restart on their own.

I ask all of you to pray for Jay and for the doctors who are caring for him. Also, please pray for his family, Parents-Betty and Kenny, Sister and Brother-In-Law-Julie and Victor, Nephew and Niece-Kenny and Christy and for all of his extended family and friends. If you are interested in updates, you can check out his website at PrayforJay.blogspot.com. If you visit, please consider leaving a message of support for the family.

Thank you.