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Bill Powell

Jim Beatty has been in the ER 4 times in 10 days. Why they keep sending him home I cannot fathom. He has been complaining of pain under his left arm radiating down his arm. The family has been afraid he was

having a heart attack, but all his vitals indicate otherwise. Yesterday some type of enhanced xray revealed a mass behind his left lung, which doctors thought looked like a hematoma or pocket of infection. Later in the day a bruise developed under his arm in the area of the pain. By this morning the bruise is covering a goodly portion of his side. Since he has not had any blunt force trauma to this area and he is on blood thinner, he must be bleeding internally. Doctors are at a loss as to what to do. They need to operate to stop the bleeding, but if he is already bleeding uncontrollably from thinners an operation more than likely would cause him to bleed out. As it stands they are modifying his meds to stop the bleeding and/or allow them to operate to correct the bleeding. Playing with his meds is very dangerous, taking away the thinners and adding Vitamin K may get us back to him throwing clots. Please pray for guidance for the doctors and give Colleen (Jims wife, my niece) the strength to endure. She has not seen him in at least two weeks due to him having Covid and her physical impairments.

Received: January 24, 2021