In Loving Memory of Lyle Nitschke: Another Day

Friday, June 3, 2011

Another Day

June 3, 2011 Betty sent a text stating that Dr. Stark is away for the weekend. She also said that the nurse told her that Lyle can maintain this status for quite awhile based on the amount of damage to the brain that is visible on the scan. Lyle can't swallow on command and is trapped in this poor body. This is so hard, none of us have never faced such a situation. We want the best for Lyle.

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damaeJune 4, 2011 at 2:00 PM
Hmmm, When I talked with Betty, she said he did swallow. . . . Not sure I like what's going on. . . . =(
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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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Friday, June 3, 2011

Another Day

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