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Please keep our dear friends, Whit Higham, his wife Cari Garff Higham and their beautiful family in your prayers, thoughts and well wishes
Whit has been battling Covid-19 for Since September 14th is in the ICU on a ventilator fighting to see his 3 little ones at home again.
We have no doubt he'll beat this. He's young and strong.
BUT they need a little help
His wife has posted regularly on her profile updating friends and family on his progress, if you'd like to know more.
Whit & Cari are incredible people and even during the hardest times they were always serving and helping others.
They could definitely use our help now... whether it is the form of a donation or sending up a prayer on their behalf.
Thank you
Latest update from Cari 10/07/21
Day 24
Covid is cruel.
Yesterday was an amazing day.
After Whit was extubated he held his numbers just fine.
He was comfortable and they were slowly weening him off 2 more of his medications.
After a few hours, he started to hallucinate.
Hallucinations are normal as his body goes through withdrawals from all the medication he's been on.
When I left him last night (because I'm not allowed to spend the night in the ICU) his oxygen was sitting in the mid 90s, but he was restless.
He was still hallucinating and there had been a couple incidents where his oxygen dropped when he moved too much and it took him a while to recover.
They told me when he was extubated that he'd be considered "high risk" for reintubation for the next 48 hours...
I said a prayer for us before I left the ICU and he told me he loved me and he was going to try and get some sleep.
That didn't happen.
I got a call from the hospital this morning that Whit's oxygen started to decline around 3 am.
And over the course of a couple hours he couldn't keep his numbers up where they needed to be anymore.
His body was still too weak. He was too tired.
He ended up being reintubated at 5am and is back on the ventilator.
I'm heartbroken this morning.
It was so good to hear his voice yesterday and to feel a little relief as I was hopeful we had made it through the worst of it.
But this has been our Covid journey since the very beginning.
2 steps forward... 1 step back.
I talked to his doctor this morning... They took a CT scan to make sure there aren't any blood clots and everything is still looking OK. No clots. I'm grateful for that.
He still has the pneumonia but it hasn't gotten worse.
Covid patients can come off the ventilator and go home and still have the pneumonia for months. So the fact it hasn't gotten worse is a great thing.
But it looks like we have a couple more days before he'll be strong enough to be extubated for good.
We have to give his body the support he needs to get stronger.
I've been told by several people that this happens more than people realize.
Covid patients can be doing great for so long on their own... and then they start to rapidly decline again.
They're giving him 2 or 3 more days so he can be strong enough to not decline again.
I'm with him right now and he's sleeping comfortably.
They're working to lower his vent numbers back to where they need to be to get him breathing on his own again through the ventilator.
I know I ask alot... but please keep praying for him.
Pray for our children as well... they are heartbroken dad is back to sleep again.
I'm confident this is just another small hiccup. A bump in the road on this journey.
I'm grateful that if he was going to decline, it happened while we were still in the ICU and he was still in the care of these people that have fought hard for him since he got here.
If it had happened somewhere else... this update would have been alot different.
Whit will be sleeping the rest of today to give his body the space and time it needs to heal from being reintubated for a 3rd time.
My parents are on their way up to be with me for a few hours. I get to see and hold our baby girl. I need it.
I am doing ok.
Even though I feel crushed I have to wait longer to get him home, I'm holding onto my father and priesthood blessings. I have faith and believe in the power of prayer and fasting.
I'm finding comfort in knowing he isn't in pain, knowing he has people fasting and praying for him all over the world and he is progressing well today to get his numbers back where they need to be to wake him up again tomorrow.
Latest update from Cari 10/07/21
Day 24
Covid is cruel.
Yesterday was an amazing day.
After Whit was extubated he held his numbers just fine.
He was comfortable and they were slowly weening him off 2 more of his medications.
After a few hours, he started to hallucinate.
Hallucinations are normal as his body goes through withdrawals from all the medication he's been on.
When I left him last night (because I'm not allowed to spend the night in the ICU) his oxygen was sitting in the mid 90s, but he was restless.
He was still hallucinating and there had been a couple incidents where his oxygen dropped when he moved too much and it took him a while to recover.
They told me when he was extubated that he'd be considered "high risk" for reintubation for the next 48 hours...
I said a prayer for us before I left the ICU and he told me he loved me and he was going to try and get some sleep.
That didn't happen.
I got a call from the hospital this morning that Whit's oxygen started to decline around 3 am.
And over the course of a couple hours he couldn't keep his numbers up where they needed to be anymore.
His body was still too weak. He was too tired.
He ended up being reintubated at 5am and is back on the ventilator.
I'm heartbroken this morning.
It was so good to hear his voice yesterday and to feel a little relief as I was hopeful we had made it through the worst of it.
But this has been our Covid journey since the very beginning.
2 steps forward... 1 step back.
I talked to his doctor this morning... They took a CT scan to make sure there aren't any blood clots and everything is still looking OK. No clots. I'm grateful for that.
He still has the pneumonia but it hasn't gotten worse.
Covid patients can come off the ventilator and go home and still have the pneumonia for months. So the fact it hasn't gotten worse is a great thing.
But it looks like we have a couple more days before he'll be strong enough to be extubated for good.
We have to give his body the support he needs to get stronger.
I've been told by several people that this happens more than people realize.
Covid patients can be doing great for so long on their own... and then they start to rapidly decline again.
They're giving him 2 or 3 more days so he can be strong enough to not decline again.
I'm with him right now and he's sleeping comfortably.
They're working to lower his vent numbers back to where they need to be to get him breathing on his own again through the ventilator.
I know I ask alot... but please keep praying for him.
Pray for our children as well... they are heartbroken dad is back to sleep again.
I'm confident this is just another small hiccup. A bump in the road on this journey.
I'm grateful that if he was going to decline, it happened while we were still in the ICU and he was still in the care of these people that have fought hard for him since he got here.
If it had happened somewhere else... this update would have been alot different.
Whit will be sleeping the rest of today to give his body the space and time it needs to heal from being reintubated for a 3rd time.
My parents are on their way up to be with me for a few hours. I get to see and hold our baby girl. I need it.
I am doing ok.
Even though I feel crushed I have to wait longer to get him home, I'm holding onto my father and priesthood blessings. I have faith and believe in the power of prayer and fasting.
I'm finding comfort in knowing he isn't in pain, knowing he has people fasting and praying for him all over the world and he is progressing well today to get his numbers back where they need to be to wake him up again tomorrow.
Organizer and beneficiary
Beach Boss Influencers
Organizer
Newburgh, IN
Cari Higham
Beneficiary