Terry’s Story

Site created on March 2, 2021

Welcome to our CaringBridge website. We are using it to keep family and friends updated in one place. We appreciate your support and words of hope and encouragement. Thank you for visiting. 3/1/2021 On Sunday, February 28th Terry was admitted in to the Avera ICU, in Aberdeen, SD. Terry has blood clots in his lungs and three out of four chambers of his heart, and is struggling with heart failure. He is currently able to use 25% of his heart. Terry is very tired, and doing a lot sleeping right now. He is in great hands and we are praying for a miracle. 🤍 Currently the hospital is only allowing Hailey, Reeba and Travis to visit the ICU. We ask that individuals use this platform to keep up to date with Terry's condition, as we have had an overwhelming amount of people reach out to us all, and it's difficult to keep everyone updated. Please keep our dad in your prayers. 🤍 Hailey, Travis & Reeba

UPDATE: 3/8/2021
In addition to the blood clots they have found an infection in his lungs and he is now on a ventilator to keep him breathing. They are working to clear up the infection and the crud in the lungs in hopes that he will be able to come off the ventilator. currently he is sedated and not able to talk.

Newest Update

Journal entry by Reeba Sattler

Dad was officially taken off life support yesterday and has since been breathing on his own. We still have a long road of recovery ahead of us but so far things look much better. There is still a lot of concerns regarding cognitive function and the long-term effects of the several strokes he has had. Occupational therapy and physical therapy have been working with him for the last two days and conducted a number of tests. So far we are not sure the extent of the damage but we remain hopeful. 
We have all been able to talk to dad and while he's definitely not happy to be in the hospital he is clearly glad to be awake! He has some adjusting to do which will take some time. 
Dad was officially moved out of the ICU this afternoon and is now back to the regular hospital wing. There is still no indication of when he will be able to leave the hospital but we are just taking it day by day.
Thank you again to for all the love, support and prayers. We are all so appreciative.
We will update as things unfold over the next few days. 
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