8/15: Scott is home from the hospital and is doing well. :-)
8/7: Scott was unable to meet with us while we were in New Jersey. We had the pleasure of meeting his wife and oldest son. Scott is still in the hospital. He had his third surgery. The first surgery was to do repairs to his back. The second and third have been due to the infections. When they performed the surgery this time, they found an infected muscle and bone degradation. The muscle can not be treated directly because of the blood vessels surrounding it.
The infection he has is not responding to the antibiotics they have used over the last several days. Doctors are trying to find one that will work. Scott is very discouraged that he has to go through the healing process a third time. He is a retired NYPD. Because of that, he is in a hospital in Manhattan which is a two-hour drive from where he lives in NJ. That distance is making it hard on him and his family. He thanks everyone for praying for him.
8/2: Please pray for Scott. He had back surgery, and it became dangerously infected. He was treated and declared cured of that. Sadly, he was just put back into the hospital today because it has come back.
This is the man we were supposed to meet with this weekend, so now we are waiting to hear if his son can meet us. He looked stiff, sore, and very tired when we met with him. Please pray for his healing. Scott was already very frustrated about the first infection which required a hospital stay with strong antibiotics followed by PICC line antibiotics at home.
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8/3: One of his sons is going to meet us. I do not know if we will see the nurse or the teacher, but we will have the pleasure of meeting one of them. We will send Scott a can of local peanuts and a card to his hospital bed through his son. Thank you to all who are praying for Scott's health.
