Chase is Still in the Hospital but Getting Ready to Return Home

As mentioned in the previous update about the Protective Services debacle, “all’s well that ends well”... we’re almost there in terms of a happy ending to this latest episode, but not yet. It turns out that there have been many blessings as a result thus far. First of all, Chase got the transfusion that he needed and it’s making a big difference – his hemoglobin is back up to around 10 +/- and it seems to be stabilizing. He’s also getting a lot of close attention to the electrolyte imbalance issue that has continued on and off for the past couple of weeks – they still don’t have a good answer for this yet, but we’re continuing to investigate by process of elimination. Chase has also had several lung x-rays with varying indications of issues – once again, they still don’t have a good explanation, but his oxygen saturations have improved after changing some settings on his ventilator and administering an IV antibiotic (in case this is infection related, which they haven’t been able to confirm).

We were close to being able to take Chase home a couple of times over the weekend, but decided to continue allowing the monitoring so that they could reach a more clear assessment of these issues and hopefully prevent any recurrence. Another benefit of the dropped charges by Protective Services is that it has brought to light for many other people a situation that could wrongfully occur – with the recent publicity of our situation, hopefully an investigation will take place that will cause the agency to use more prudence going forward to avoid putting others through this unnecessarily. In addition, we’ve gotten even more Prayer Warriors for Chase as a result of the word getting out – we received many messages from people who were outraged and are praying for our family, especially Chase. Apparently, the news clip got a lot of feedback and they want to continue to follow our story going forward.

So although we were tempted to pursue some other recourse, we’re choosing to “forgive and forget” and remain focused on our primary objective of getting Chase healed. With the help of our thousands of Prayer Warriors, we’re keeping the faith and believing that we will be rewarded for remaining vigilant in this crusade for Chase. Thanks for all the support!

God Bless!!

John & Carol Sammut
Chase & Barbara