PRAISE HIS NAME!!!

Hertha Dueck

Abe is improving improving improving. Wow. How do we spell the word wow backwards? Wow !! Since the 2 time that we visited Abe today he has had his eyes opened almost half of the time when we are with him. One time it looked like he wanted to add to our conversation. Sometimes he seems to be turning his head towards the person that is talking. When he is looking straight into my eyes with his eyes as big as possible I hardly know what to do next. THANK YOU JESUS !!

God is so good. Abe is improving and since today during our 11:00 o clock visit it is not so slowly anymore. He opens his eyes without us coaxing him and he has his eyes open almost half of the time and really open, too, not just partly. He seems to really listen to our conversations and turns his head toward the one speaking. Once it looked like he wanted  to speak, too. We are so excited and PRAISE THE LORD.

                                                                                      Betty

 

 

Some of our visitors are gone. Frank and Dora and the children left this morning at 6:20 and Walter took the bus yesterday at 10:30. Mom and Dad are still here and myself ( Betty), with Hertha.  Hertha really enjoyed having her children here. It was sweet to see how they enjoyed  visiting their                                                                                                                      dad. We pray for safe travelling for them.

      Hertha and I saw Abe this morning. He opened his eyes 5 times during our 1 hour visit in his room. Doctor Mattheo came in briefly, he had to go do a surgery. He brings so much encouragement when he enters a room. We asked him about fixing Abe’s shoulder and he gave a few reasons why there is no rush to do that

-          He has a sore ( about half an inch in diameter, we think it is from the accident) right on the place where they would make the incision  which he says would not be good to irritate that before it is healed.

-          Every surgery he has, sets back on the progress his brain is making and could cause more complications, which we don’t need right now.

-          The surgery is minor and can be done closer to the time when he goes home or even come back later to do it.

Please pray that his body will receive the supplements they want to give him and his digestive system will do its work.

              Thank you so much for your unceasing intercession and encouragement.

                                                                                                                Betty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

            Hi, Friends and family, all those of you that pray and intercede for Abe and family. We are posting these updates for you to be informed on  how you can pray and so you can praise the Lord with us for His goodness. We thank you for not using this as a means to spread news that is imagined or read between the lines.  Thank you for praying  and supporting .

       Abe is responding  and moving  more since yesterday toward evening. Just looks more alert. Lifting his head, moving his arm toward his upper body, squeezing hands that are holding his, opening his eyes, turning his head. Then the next time we visit him he sleeps mostly again. But in general he is showing more movement. The doctor says he needs our reports on his responses to know how he is improving.

     Doc says tomorrow he wants to start feeding him supplements again into his stomach. Please pray that he will accept them this time. If he does he can be moved into a general room.

    We have lots of company now, Abe and Hertha’s children and Hertha’s parents from Calgary and Frank and Dora Loewen. It is good  we are enjoying them. We say again, God is good. We are taught  in God’s Word to present our requests to God with thanksgiving. It is good to praise Him.

                        Betty    

 

 

 

 

Hi

Today we spent more time with other family members than with Abe.

Abe seems to be pretty good  today. The doctor was busy today so we have not seen him a lot.  We have seen some more response today. Once when I was in he squeezed Dania’s and Jenny’s hands. He yawned a couple times. He also turned his head a bit. He has also opened his eyes a couple times. They put him on a chair, which is very close like a bed, just his head a little higher.

So we praise God for a good day and we praise God for every response we see, even if it is a small.

Generally he seem to improve, yet slowly.

Walter

 

 

 

Yesterday Abe & Hertha’s children all came here and then later at night mom & dad came from Calgary.

Yesterday in the afternoon when we came into the room and I shook Abe’s legs a bit and called his name he opened his eyes for about half a minute. He also opened his eyes when the children came in. He was more responsive then he was now already for a couple days.

Walter

 

 

 

Family and friends,

 

We visited Abe this morning. We also spoke with the doctor for a while.

Yesterday Abe’s abdomen was bloated and he had fever which caused the doctors  concern. His digestive system is not working the way it should and the risk was there that one of his  intestine could burst and so they took precaution on that. A few catscans were done on his abdomen to take precaution. This morning he had a big bowel movement and the bloatedness is gone again. Praise the Lord he answers prayers, we prayed that Abe would  cause the nurses work to clean him up and they sure had to. Yet they are looking for  it to move on a continues basis. His abdomen problem is not helping his brain improve. The doctor said if a healthy person has problems in the stomach and abdomen as Abe has, he would be down in the bed as well.  The doctor said as long as he has issues like he had yesterday they say it is not an option to take him out of the ICU. They are not giving Abe any supplements into the stomach. But he said they give him different kind of nutrition in his IV which they also will look at closely how it will affect him. The doctor says that  at this point, as long as he does not experience setbacks he is doing good.

Walter asked the doctor about his brain and he says it is to soon to tell. As mention earlier, other complications slow that down as well. The doctor again said that Abe has been without oxygen for the first 10 min and that has affected his brain. He said his brain has  some activity, but it is disorganized. Brain trauma, Spinal trauma, and digestive problems are all connected.

They will do another catscan on the head on Friday. And then as he would think now an EEG which is a more complete test on his brain beginning of next week and that test should show results again on his brain activity.

This morning we saw more response. He moved his leg and arm and his eyelids fluttered more, too. He also turned his head  and lifted it a bit this morning. The therapist said he had opened his eyes yesterday when she gave him treatment. The catscans on his abdomen showed very good results on the surgery on his vertebrae.

Pray that Abe’s stomach will function right

Pray that his digestive system will work

Pray that his fever will go away completely.

Pray that his body will be completely healed and his brain to be restored.

 

The doctor encourages us to speak to Abe, encourage him boldly, which to me (Walter) seems Otto Reimers daughters are better at then I am.

 

Walter & Betty

 

 

 

 

 

 

We visited Abe from 4:00 to 5:00PM. The nurses were putting fluid in his abdomen for another test. We spoke with the doctor a few words and he said he had not seen any results from the first test, but told us he will look at them and they had to fill the abdomen with fluid to do another one. Later when we tried to visit him they were busy working with Abe so we have not been able to visit him again. Communication would be better if we would speak Spanish fluently. The nurses mostly speak Spanish and the doctors are not around all the time, but it seems to work.

Walter

 

 

Hi friends and family,

 

We are serving an awesome God. Our circumstances don’t change who God is, He will always be the same.

We visited Abe this morning and he was pretty much the same as yesterday. As we said yesterday they started to give Abe supplements. This morning he vomited a couple times. Even at 11:00AM Abe was still vomiting a couple times. At that time Hertha spoke with the doctor, the doctor said, Abe could be vomiting because he is unable to accept some medication. He was not to concerned about it.   They stopped giving him the supplements earlier this morning for the time being.. Now we just came out of the room again. The doctors wanted to do some test on him at this moment (catscan on the stomach), to check his digestive system. He does have some bowel movement in the form of some diarrhea. Abe has had a little fever almost all day.

                We trust in the Lord even when it is a day that is not as bright as we would have liked to see it. Please continue to pray.

 

Walter

 

 

 

 

I don't have alot of time to be on my tablet but I am very grateful for your encouragement family and friends.I believe for good things to take place. Right now I ask for your prayers that Abe will be able to take his nutrition and not vomit when he is getting it which he did quite abit this morning. Right now a cat scan is taken on his belly to see why his stool is not moving as much as it shoul

d he has diaria but they want it to move better yet.So lets believe for break thru in Jesus Name. And I say it is time for him to wake up. We believe for a miracle. Tomorrow when our children come they would really like to see him totally awake.So I say Wake Up Abe you need to wake up. Good things will happen just watch it especially if we declare positive things.

Hertha

 

 

 

Abe

We spoke with Doctor Matteo just before lunch. He is a very optimistic and humorous man. A few things he said

-          They were prepared with 6 units of blood for Abe’s surgery yesterday and had to use only 1. He said “God was there with us”.

-          The results of a blood test they did today to check his Thyroid, showed to low. They started giving him some medication for this. He says this is normal for patients that suffer head trauma. He expects that  correcting this will help his brain to wake up, too.

Other than that, Abe is very calm so far today. He opened his eyes for the doctor today but not for us.

  Thankyou for praying in faith.

                  Betty

 

 

It is Sunday morning and most of you are heading to church. For us here in Guatemala it is different .We will be having our worship service in our spirits because after all there is not a moment that we are not bathing in the Fathers love ,his presence and his grace. He is so good. He is working His miracle in Abe, we just have to see it with eyes of faith. This morning he is sleeping , probably from the sedation, yet. They started feeding him supplements into his stomach this morning. Pray that his stomach will receive them and his colon to work good. He has a slight fever again due to yesterday’s surgery. The doctor said this morning that as far as  yesterday’s surgery concerns, it is doing good.  Ben and Maria left this morning at 6:30 for their road trip home. Please pray for Abe to wake up and be healed. THANKYOU for your prayers.

         Betty

 

 

 

Abe is out of surgery and the doctor says it turned out very good. Pray that the fluid that goes from the brain to the spinal cord which is one thing that they fixed will be healed good. The doctor said that it will help Abe to wake up better.After the surgery he all ready opened one eye and looked at me for awhile. Lets keep on believing and declaring total healing for his brain and his whole body. Thank you so much for your support, family and friends.

Hertha

 

 

 

Hertha Dueck

Abe is out of surgery and the doctor says it turned out very good. Pray that the fluid that goes from the brain to the spinal cord which is one thing that they fixed will be healed good. The doctor said that it will help Abe to wake up better.After the surgery he all ready opened one eye and looked at me for awhile. Lets keep on believing and declaring total healing for his brain and his whole body. Thank you so much for your support, family and friends.

We saw Abe out of surgery already. He looks good. The doctor says he will be sleeping today again but the surgery went very well. We saw the xray from after the surgery , they did some bone grafting, put in 4 screws, a few bars .Please pray for continued healing.

                             Betty

 

 

 

The Doctor said the surgery is done on Abe and as far as they know everything work well. Praise the Lord

 

Walter

 

 

 

Hertha posted this on facebook

   

his is the picture that I wanted to send yesterday all ready anyway now it works. Yesterday Abe had his eyes open four or five times and each time for awhile. Right now he is in surgery. Thankyou for your continuous prayers and ask to keep it up. God is able to do all things. Thankyou Papa God for answering prayers.

Goodmorning family and friends. Walter and I reached Guatemala at 7 this morning. We met Hertha and Ben and Maria. We went to see Abe and at 7:30 he was wheeled out for surgery, to fix his broken vertebrae. We had a powerful, wonderful prayer time together around his bed. Then Doctor Matteo came and he asked to have some time for prayer. It is so precious to pray together with the doctor for wisdom and guidance. We have peace that Abe is good hands, first of all in the Father hands and then also in good doctors hands. God is so good. We believe for healing. Please pray. The doctor says the surgery could take till 3 o clock. Yesterday Abe opened his eyes  a few times and looked around. We praise God for every sign of improvement.

                                         Betty

 

 

 

PRAY! PRAY!

   Today is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoce and be glad in it...
Today is Abe's surgery on his back, unless God fixed already. Please hold our brother is Christ high today as he is undergoing  his surgery which the doctor estimated to take from 6 to 8 hrs. He will go into surgery at 7:30 am, which is about now, Belize time and Guatemala time are the same. Hertha told me yesterday evening that Abe had opened his eyes a few times yesterday and yawned a few times again she was very excited to see this.
Pray that Abe will be ok through the surgery and that God will be the one doing the operation. I want to hear from the doctors that things had worked better then expected! I know Abe would do it for you so do if for him NOW. It's your chance to give back to him what he has given to you, time, wisdom, encouragement, and so much more!

-Clara

This update was done by Hertha via facebook Friday morning

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Goodmorning my family and friends. Abe is slowly but surely lmproving. The swelling in his brain is down. Thank you Papa God . Keep believing that Abe will not have any more fever. REALLY declare and believe that Abe's vertebrates will be HEALED by tomorrow morning and his shoulder too. I want to see a MIRACLE taking place. Prayer meetings are very welcome. Where two or three are gathered in my name says Jesus I will hear them. Of course a total restoration of Abe's brain as well. This morning Ben and I were talking in Abe's room when Abe opened one eye fairly good for a while. We were talking about Johnny and Mishells little dude Denver when Abe opened his eye. Abe has that little mischeviaus smile on his face since yesterday and I keep telling him that he can't keep that secret for long.I thank you for all your prayers and support and the encouraging emails and responses.

Hertha