John, Eli and Jacob before Prom...

I am embarassed to say... this is the only picture I have of Eli that I can download right now. I am pretty computer illiterate and I can only get the pictures that are stored in my computer. Hopefully, I can figure it out soon :)

Eli was in Mesa last week doing dialysis all week. He is now a pro! He drove home Saturday and got home around four. After a couple of hours he started complaining about a headache. I told him he probably overdid it in Mesa and needed some rest. We were all in bed by ten!

Around 7:00 am Gregg woke up and walked through the house, as he was crossing the living room he glanced over and saw Eli on the floor holding his head. He tried to talk to him and ask him what was going on. He wouldn't respond.

He came and woke me up. We tried to ask him questions and he wouldn't answer. I went and got some blankets and pillows because he was shaking like he was cold.

We tried to turn him on his side because I knew he was pinching the catheter in his stomach. We started rolling him over and he started having a grand mal seizure. I called 911. After what seemed like an eternity he stopped. He then went into some sort of trance.

The paramedics got here and loaded him into the ambulance as it was snowing. Gregg went with him. I stayed to take care of Grayson and Becca. They had witnessed their brother and they were quite scared.

Eli had another grand mal seizure on the way to Show Low.

They got him to the ER and immediately gave him seizure medication and morphine. They tried to stabilize him. Eli had another grand mal seizure. After 45 minutes they decided he needed a cat scan. Gregg was watching the cat scan when he saw his back starting to arch. He ran in there as fast as he could.

Eli had another grand mal seizure while in the cat scan machine.

It was snowing so badly that they could not fly him in the helicopter to Phoenix. They took him in an ambulance to the Show Low airport to fly to Phoenix by airplane. Gregg was able to fly with him. They got into Sky Harbor airport and went by ambulance to Banner Baywood Hospital. They had a room in ICU waiting for him.

He was in ICU for three days. They moved him to a regular room today. He does not remember a thing. He sounds good, a little shaky. It is hard to understand him because his tongue is so swollen from biting it so hard. He is very sore. The hospital does not understand how he didn't have a stroke. It is literally a MIRACLE!

I want to thank everyone for ALL you have done to help our family during this scary event! With everything he has been through we are planning a very low key Christmas. I just want to sit by Eli and hold his hand and let him know everything is going to be alright.