We'll here's the official email... pass it along to those you think will want to know.
-- Mandy, can you forward this to crossfire kids who'd want to know? 
-- Tim, bring the ultimate team / vets up to speed,
-- Olivier's - can you let the indiana folks know, and I might have missed Tracy in Africa.
-- Rhoda's - can you let mom's and pop's and the camp people know?
-- Nora already hit a bunch of GroundZero people for me, but Nora, you wanna forward this to that list... and GZ ppl, pass it around to those who need to see it... I can't think right now to compile a complete list. 
-- Cope's, most times AOL bounces my emails so if you want to double check me and send this to my parents, Grandpa and Grandma, etc... any family on AOL, that would be great.  Also Aunt Anne.
-- Jones' - I danno whose emails I send this to and whose I didn't... so get it out to anyone who ought to have it.
-- For now, I'm doing updates VIA email... I won't have time to put anything on DrewandTracey.com till she gets outta the hospital, so just check your email. 
-- If you add her to any prayer lists, please skip the details and just ask them to pray for "for healing for her, peace for us & our families in distant places, wisdom for the doctors, but most importantly for good communication between the doctors, the nursing staff, and us."
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Please keep Tracey in your thoughts and prayers.  Those of you familiar with Drew's Daily Life Updates from my college days know that our lives are an open book.  And that philosophy of ministry can also be found on to www.DrewandTracey.com/Wedding/ where you can look at what we had read during the ceremony, and go through the story of how we met and all that fun stuff.   We'll call that stuff the introduction or maybe chapter 1...

But here comes one of those chapters that typically falls later in the book that you just hate to read, but you want to because you know it's building towards some awesome God sized climax at the end which won't make sence if we don't include it (which we know in our hearts as truth, and it even feels good to say, but it takes an hour by hour effort to LIVE in that truth)

...so here goes....

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Last week Tracey had a chest infection of some kind that got her all congested.  Her doctor switched a few of her asthma drugs around and gave her some other stuff on Saturday... Then on Tuesday Her knee got very swollen.   Wednesday AM we took her to her doctor, who sent her to the local ER in Jennersville.  They said it was a large blood clot, deep vein thrombosis or DVT that went from just below her knee, most of the way up her calf.   They put her in an ambulance and sent her to Christiana Hospital where she is now.   We spent Wednesday afternoon in the ER Observation room (better than the hallway), and then got her a room at 9:30ish that night.   Today (thursday) went pretty smooth.  She is now on Heprin, (a blood thinner), and now Cummitin (sp?) which started tonight.   Her INR is consistant 1.2 starting at the blood draw in the ER, and going through 4 more up through Thursday morning.   They want to get it to 2.5.   They think she might get out monday, but we haven't gotten to talk to the real doctor in charge yet so Monday might as well be a dart thrown blindfolded at a calendar.   She is doing fine, save for pain in her knee which drugs can manage for 9 hours at a time on a single dose.   But she's 25, and with a family history of this stuff... it's a little scarey for a couple our age.   Some of the new meds are now making it hard for her to keep her daily schedule straight in her mind.  She is lossing track of when she did what, and who was there when she did it.   So we're journaling everything to make it easier.

I'm in there all day with her playing nurse, feeding ice chips, scratching her nose (I hear you snickering, and yes, you might be right... she might be milking the nose part a little... either that or she likes me touching her nose) but it's not so bad.  We find ways to make it fun.

So be thinking about her... keep her in prayer.... for healing for her, peace for us & peace for immediate family members for whom it'd be a little impractical to make the trip, wisdom for the doctors, but most importantly for good communication between the doctors, the nursing staff, and us.  No-one is really giving us very much information and that is very frustrating and hard for both of us.  At the same time, they have people in for this every day so it's old hat to them.   It's just new for us.  

So that's what we know right now... I know there is a happy ending coming and i'm anxiously awaiting for the material to present itself so that we can write about it, but until then she's in God's hands and I'm just going to have to get used to not being in control for one.  thanks.

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Don't worry about cards or flowers... Cards cost $3 a peice at some places (which is silly) and then we either keep them in a box somewhere forever (probably never to be looked at again which is even sillier) or recycle them, and with her alergies, sometimes the flowers just aggrevate stuff anyway.  If you want to do something, tour best bet is probably to either reply to this, send us a photo of you being silly to make her smile, or maybe just find an online greeting card, tha'd probably be best...  I can check email through my phone and Tracey and I will try to sit down in the afternoon and read them.  I won't guarentee any personized responses right away... we might just do the mass email thing till she gets outta the hospital.  If you want on this list, subscribe instructions are below.

come-on now... you know you do the same thing with all the birthday and christmas cards you get.  Am I right ?  :-D

If you're thinking about paying us a visit, I'll stop short of telling you stay home as I'm sure Tracey won't mind the occational friendly face, but please don't feel pressured to do so.  Their visitor policy is a pain!!  (so are the policies at every other hospital I've ever been to).  However if your pretty intent on stopping by, please call my cell first and we'll see how her day is going so far, and make sure shes up for it.
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Love you guys.   Know we value you!   And if you didn't get this directly from us, don't be offended.  It's just late and I'm tired.   Just email me with "SUBSCRIBE Tracey Updates" in the subject line, and I'll add you to the list.   I can take people off the list too, if you don't want the updates.  Trust me, We won't be offended.  It's fine.


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-- Drew & Tracey --
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1Thes 2:6-12 We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.

-- Good things come to those who wait --
Jacob served seven years for Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. - Gen 29:20

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