Cross Into The Future

Over the weekend my family and I went to Springfield to celebrate my grandma’s birthday.  We had a wonderful time visiting and I of course had a great time with Isaiah and Daniel.  Sandy and Mike got a free puppy from one of their neighbors and it is adorable!  We had lots of fun playing around, and Grandma and Grandpa loved the company.

Early on Sunday morning, Grandma and Grandpa had gotten up to prepare for church.  Grandma had gotten dressed and she and Grandpa were making the bed when Grandma asked Grandpa to help her put her earrings on.  As she talked, Grandpa noticed that her speech was slurred and looked up at her.  The left side of her face was sagging and her left arm was limp.  He realized that she was having a stroke and immediately had her lie down and called 9-1-1.  An ambulance came quickly, as they live very close to Cox South Hospital.  They got her to the hospital with Grandpa and Sandy travelling behind.  The first thing they did was to perform a Cat-Scan on her brain to determine the situation.  They found out that a blood clot had lodged in her brain and was blocking bloodflow to that area.  They also noticed that some brain damage had already occured.

Come to find out, Grandma had gone in to her doctor earlier in the week to have a double biopsy done on her stomach to determine the source of her stomach pains.  She had been told to go off of her Cumadin (a blood thinner) before the operation.  She had then gone back on the medication Friday and Saturday, but by then her blood had coagulated quite a bit, causing the blood clot in her brain.

The doctor called in a neuro-specialist to look over her.  He put her on a strong blood thinner to help to break up the clot in her brain and insulin to help bring her blood sugar down (which had risen somwhere around 300).  He said for the time being all they could do is support her through the stroke by monitoring her vitals and giving her Aspirin among other things.  After spending a couple of hours in ER, she was placed in ICU for 24 hours to be monitored, then moved to the neurology floor, where she will stay for at least 5 days.

Please be praying for her to have strength and get lots of rest.  My mom went back to Springfield after we came home Sunday afternoon so that she could be there for both of her parents.  Pray also for her and Grandpa as they spend time with Grandma at the hospital.  Grandpa does not handle hospitals very well and gets stir crazy.  Mom will need prayer as she takes care of them through the transition period and once Grandma comes home.  Keep the doctors in your prayers, too, as they determine the extent of her brain damage and what steps need to be taken to help her to recover as well and quickly as possible.

Thank you!

Morning’s glory breaks soft and sweet,

But this stillness is not dawn:

The world’s heart has skipped a beat

For one man who has passed on.

By humble means God touched this life,

And through death’s shadow led

Until at last ere pain and strife,

Freed him from cancer’s bed.

A beacon in a weary world

This man quickly became,

God’s guiding scriptures he unfurled

For student hearts to claim.

An open door at home he had,

A loving family, too;

No man could enter feeling sad

Joy filled the whole house through.

Then to a crossroad God brought him

A new step in his plan:

“Lost souls are hanging from a limb,

Pick them with tender hand.”

So led by faith from God above,

Man, wife, and son began

To show with warm and tender love

Salvation’s perfect plan.

The countless souls he witnessed to

Told thousands of God’s love.

And children’s lives he did renew

With shelter from above.

Why does this mournful cry awake

From distant, foreign land ?

Out of the quiet sobbing breaks

For one who took a stand.

This man of God is at his place

With those who’ve gone before;

One day again we’ll see his face

When God opens the door.

Until then, and with outstretched heart

Send God’s hope through the land.

And tell them how by one man’s part

Lost souls could take a stand.

>Dr. Robert Kyle Guimon, 46, of Walnut Ridge, died Monday, February 13, at St. Bernard Hospital, Jonesboro, Arkansas.
 

>Dr. Guimon was born October 19, 1959, at Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated in 1978 from Walnut Ridge High School and from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a Ph.D. in Nuclear/Cosmo Chemistry in 1986.  He taught Chemistry at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri, and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as serving as the Division Chairman of the Natural and Health Sciences Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. He also worked in the United States nuclear weapons program at the Nevada Test Site, and had fellowships working at NASA in Houston, Texas. Dr. Guimon, in 1999, moved to Uganda, Africa as a missionary with Bapitst International Missions, Inc.  He started an orphanage and school in Soroti, Uganda as well as establishing churches there.

>He was preceded in death by his grandparents, the late Leonard and Lois Counts, and the late Jake and Essie Guimon.
 

>Survivors are his wife, Debbie; son, Matthew; his parents, Bob and Nedra Guimon, and many other relatives and friends.

>We will miss you, Dr. G.