In Loving Memory of Lyle Nitschke: The First Few Days

Thursday, May 26, 2011

The First Few Days

On Tuesday, May 24... John called the ambulance and they took him into the hospital and he was in a coma through Thursday evening. Mom (Helen), Fred & Margie, Betty Doris and Nancy arrived are the family members that showed up on Thursday. The stimulation from having everyone together must have been a good thing as Lyle showed the most movement since going into the coma.

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Joan SandersJune 3, 2011 at 9:49 PM
I have known Lyle for over 15 years and consider him a great friend. He is always ready to lend a helping hand where needed. We meet with Lyle and his brother, John on Sunday morning and for a Bible Study on Wednesday evening. We are all pulling for you, Lyle, and hope you will be back on your feet soon.
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What Happened...

Sometime in Lyle’s life it looks like he had rheumatic fever which affected a heart valve, leaving it somewhat misshapen. It appears that Lyle’s immune system was compromised over the last while and, among other things, has developed Diabetes which is an autoimmune disease. These conditions were prime for a staph infection to enter his blood stream through a sore, boil or some form of lesion. The doctor’s guess is that as it passed through his heart it lodged onto the altered area of the heart. The staph infection on his heart caused a stroke and blood clots that went to his brain which resulted in brain damage to areas of his brain. These conditions also made it a prime condition for Metformin (Diabetes drug) poisoning and other various infections on or in his body in the form of yeast and fungal. Lyle is battling many things.

Essential Oils

The first four days we were at the hospital the "day nurse" that was working was Vicki. She explained to us the studies that have been done on the power of prayer in these situations. Once she realized we were not only open to holistic measures, but eager to administer as much as the hospital would let us, she told us to go right ahead. She was not able to administer anything that was not directed by a doctor, but she said we had free reign. We rubbed coconut oil over as much of his body as we could, we also put lavender oil on him. We put oregano oil on his toenails which were infected with a fungus. The room smelled wonderful. When the night nurse, Thomas, came on his shift, Vicki told him what we had done and that she was all for it. When the morning rolled around Thomas came in to say he was going home, but first was going to find an Italian restaurant and have some spaghetti. He said that Lyle’s room no longer smelled like a hospital and kept him thinking of Italian food and was quite hungry! We were so blessed to have the nurses we had.

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

The First Few Days

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