It is my desire to keep you informed about my son, Greg Morgan.
First of all, I want to thank all of you for your prayer support and care for Greg and me. I am aware of the presence of God and the answers He has given in response to your prayers of believing faith in God.
I was called early Sunday morning by a medical doctor attending Greg. He is hospitalized in a large medical center hospital in Gainesville, GA. He said Greg was losing blood, and they were giving him blood. He was in the ICU.
Another doctor did a procedure to go into his stomach with a scope with a camera. She discovered a large bleeding ulcer and an artery as large as a ballpoint pen. Surgery was the order of the day.
They called the surgeon who specializes in this kind of surgery at this hospital. He called and talked with me about what he needed to do to correct Greg's problem to stop the bleeding.
After the surgery, he called me again to let me know that Greg did well through the surgery.
He described the procedure briefly. He found a large bleeding ulcer attached to a large artery. He was able to remove the ulcer successfully and stitch the artery to seal it. Greg is no longer losing blood. The surgeon closed Greg's wound in his abdominal cavity successfully.
He told me that Greg is on a ventilator and was being sent back up to ICU for continuing special care.
Greg has many other issues. He has bacteria in his bloodstream that has affected several vital organs, e. g., his heart muscle and blood supply. They have found infection that has gone to his brain. They have not been able to make a diagnosis because these issues are so complex.
Greg fell one week ago on Sunday night. I called 911, and the paramedics came in a matter of a few minutes. They got him up and evaluated him and felt he should be taken immediately to the local hospital here in Winder, GA. At 2:15 am on Monday, the nurse in the Emergency Room called and told me that Greg has a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) and they found a spot on his liver. She informed me they were transporting him to the hospital in Gainesville. This hospital is a teaching hospital with all the various specialists to care for the patients.
God has given me peace about Greg. Dr. Frank Tunstall told me that the first definition of peace in the Greek is God is setting in proper order the sequence of events that need to be done. The Scripture God gave me in my Sunday morning devotional time is written in John's Gospel:
"Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14:27, (NKJV).
My best friend in the known world is Bishop Wesley Russ, the former superintendent of the Mid-Atlantic Conference, and former pastor of Maranatha Fellowship Pentecostal Holiness Church in College Park, MD. He has volunteered to come to stay with me for several days through this crisis in my life. I am overwhelmed by his gracious offer to help me. He and I have been close friends since 1964 when I was the pastor of the Brownville Pentecostal Holiness Church near Evergreen, AL.
When I was called to go into the Air Force Chaplaincy, I recommended that the church consider Wesley Russ to succeed me at their pastor. The church board asked me for a recommendation and I was pleased to name Wesley. And they called Wesley to be their pastor. He soon married Janie Robinson whom he had met at Emmanuel College. They were the pastors of the Brownville Church for some five years and took the church to the next higher level. God's blessings were upon Wesley and Janice and the church congregation.
Wesley and his wife, Janice Robinson Russ, and Melvine Stewart Morgan and I have enjoyed a close friendship for decades. We have made many trips together and attended all the major events of our denomination. We both have experienced the loss of our respective wives, Janice, Wesley's wife, and Melvine, my wife.
First of all, I want to thank all of you for your prayer support and care for Greg and me. I am aware of the presence of God and the answers He has given in response to your prayers of believing faith in God.
I was called early Sunday morning by a medical doctor attending Greg. He is hospitalized in a large medical center hospital in Gainesville, GA. He said Greg was losing blood, and they were giving him blood. He was in the ICU.
Another doctor did a procedure to go into his stomach with a scope with a camera. She discovered a large bleeding ulcer and an artery as large as a ballpoint pen. Surgery was the order of the day.
They called the surgeon who specializes in this kind of surgery at this hospital. He called and talked with me about what he needed to do to correct Greg's problem to stop the bleeding.
After the surgery, he called me again to let me know that Greg did well through the surgery.
He described the procedure briefly. He found a large bleeding ulcer attached to a large artery. He was able to remove the ulcer successfully and stitch the artery to seal it. Greg is no longer losing blood. The surgeon closed Greg's wound in his abdominal cavity successfully.
He told me that Greg is on a ventilator and was being sent back up to ICU for continuing special care.
Greg has many other issues. He has bacteria in his bloodstream that has affected several vital organs, e. g., his heart muscle and blood supply. They have found infection that has gone to his brain. They have not been able to make a diagnosis because these issues are so complex.
Greg fell one week ago on Sunday night. I called 911, and the paramedics came in a matter of a few minutes. They got him up and evaluated him and felt he should be taken immediately to the local hospital here in Winder, GA. At 2:15 am on Monday, the nurse in the Emergency Room called and told me that Greg has a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) and they found a spot on his liver. She informed me they were transporting him to the hospital in Gainesville. This hospital is a teaching hospital with all the various specialists to care for the patients.
God has given me peace about Greg. Dr. Frank Tunstall told me that the first definition of peace in the Greek is God is setting in proper order the sequence of events that need to be done. The Scripture God gave me in my Sunday morning devotional time is written in John's Gospel:
"Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14:27, (NKJV).
My best friend in the known world is Bishop Wesley Russ, the former superintendent of the Mid-Atlantic Conference, and former pastor of Maranatha Fellowship Pentecostal Holiness Church in College Park, MD. He has volunteered to come to stay with me for several days through this crisis in my life. I am overwhelmed by his gracious offer to help me. He and I have been close friends since 1964 when I was the pastor of the Brownville Pentecostal Holiness Church near Evergreen, AL.
When I was called to go into the Air Force Chaplaincy, I recommended that the church consider Wesley Russ to succeed me at their pastor. The church board asked me for a recommendation and I was pleased to name Wesley. And they called Wesley to be their pastor. He soon married Janie Robinson whom he had met at Emmanuel College. They were the pastors of the Brownville Church for some five years and took the church to the next higher level. God's blessings were upon Wesley and Janice and the church congregation.
Wesley and his wife, Janice Robinson Russ, and Melvine Stewart Morgan and I have enjoyed a close friendship for decades. We have made many trips together and attended all the major events of our denomination. We both have experienced the loss of our respective wives, Janice, Wesley's wife, and Melvine, my wife.