A THANK YOU LETTER FROM DAN & KATHY ROUIT
FIRST OF ALL, WE
WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE CHRISTIANS AND BELIEVE IN THE POWER
OF PRAYER. WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE SAVIOR AND BELIEVE THAT THROUGH
HIM, MIRACLES DO HAPPEN. ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30, WE WENT TO BED
TALKING ABOUT HOW WE COULDN'T WAIT TO GET OVER TO PISMO TO CELEBRATE
OUR 21ST ANNIVERSARY ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 5TH. THAT'S THE LAST THING I
REMEMBER UNTIL WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3 WHEN I WOKE UP IN THE
HOSPITAL. WE HAD NO IDEA HOW BAD I WAS. THE DOCTOR CAME IN ON
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND TOOK KATHY, WHO IS BY THE WAY IS AN RN AT SAINT
AGNES MEDICAL CENTER WHERE I WAS, OUT OF MY ROOM AND TOLD HER THAT
THERE WAS NOTHING MORE THEY COULD DO FOR ME SINCE I WAS NOT RESPONDING
TO TREATMENT. KATHY CAME BACK INTO THE ROOM VERY EMOTIONAL AND
CAME RIGHT TO MY SIDE AND STARTED KISSING ME ON THE FACE AND
HEAD. SHE PUT HER HEAD ON MY CHEST AND WITH BOTH OUR DAUGHTERS AT
MY BEDSIDE SAID, " IM NOT READY TO GIVE YOU UP YET!" THATS WHEN I
LEARNED THAT I WAS IN A VERY BAD WAY! SO IF I WAS DYING, WE
DECIDED I COULD DO THAT BETTER AT HOME THAN IN THE HOSPITAL. KATHY HAD
POSTED THE WHOLE SITUATION ON OUR FACE BOOK AND PEOPLE I DONT EVEN KNOW
WERE PRAYING FOR ME. SHE ALSO CALLED HER SISTER LINDA WHO
IMMEDIATELY CALLED AN ELDER FROM OUR CHURCH, JERRY CARLSON, WHO STARTED
A NEVER ENDING PRAYER CHAIN. THE WORD OF MY CONDITION SPREAD
THROUGH THE PROVERBIAL GRAPEVINE AND THERE WERE PEOPLE PRAYING FOR ME
EVERYWHERE! INSTEAD OF BEING AT THE BEACH, I CAME HOME AND OUR
GOOD FRIEND, DR CARY TANNER (son of the great Harley flat tracker Ray
Tanner from the 1940s) WANTED TO COME BY TO SEE ME. WHEN HE CAME
IN I WAS NOT FEELING ALL THAT BAD. OUR DAUGHTERS WERE THERE, KATHY WAS
BY MY SIDE AND OUR GOOD FRIEND MIKE KEITH WAS THERE. CT CAME IN AND AS
USUAL, KISSED ME ON MY HEAD. I ASK HIM, "CT I NEED YOU TO LAY IT OUT ON
THE TABLE, LET ME KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITH ME?" HE SAID THAT IF
MY KIDNEYS DID NOT START FUNCTIONING REAL SOON, I WOULD CONTINUE HAVING
PROBLEMS STAYING AWAKE AND WOULD, WITHIN A COUPLE OF DAYS FALL ASLEEP
AND NOT WAKE UP. HE AND THE DOCTOR FROM THE HOSPITAL SAID I NEEDED A C
PAP MACHINE AT NIGHT. THE WORD GOT OUT ABOUT THE C PAP, AND WITHIN 12
HOURS, MY NEPHEW , SCOTT LOMIER, FOUND A BRAND NEW ONE FOR ME.
FOR OVER A YEAR, I HAD BEEN SUFFERING WITH SLEEP APNEA. EVERY
NIGHT, KATHY WOULD HAVE TO NUDGE ME BECAUSE I FREQUENTLY STOPPED
BREATHING. AFTER COMMING HOME, WE CONTACTED A SLEEP STUDY CLINIC, I WAS
TESTED AND THE RESULTS FOUND THAT I WAS HAVING UP TO 60 EPISODES PER
HOUR. I WAS DEPRIVING MY BRAIN AND ALL OTHER ORGANS IN MY BODY OF
OXYGEN. SO SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH KATHY AND MY
NEW C PAP MACHINE, WE GATHERED AROUND AND PRAYED FOR MY KIDNEY FUNCTION
TO RETURN AND THAT I WOULD ADJUST QUICKLY TO THE C PAP MACHINE SO THAT
MY ORGANS WOULD GET THE OXYGEN SATURATED BLOOD THEY SO MUCH
NEEDED. THE NEXT MORNING, WHEN KATHY WOKE UP, SHE WENT AROUND TO
MY SIDE OF THE BED TO LOOK TO SEE HOW MY OUTPUT HAD BEEN THROUGH THE
NIGHT. THE DRAINAGE BAG WAS ABOUT TO BURST! SHE SAID,
"THANK YOU LORD! AND, "HONEY I'VE NEVER SEEN YOU SLEEP SO PEACEFUL WITH
NO APNEA! IT'S TRULY A MIRICLE!" CT KEPT IN CONTACT WITH KATHY AND I
FOR UPDATES. WE LET HIM KNOW THAT THINGS HAD DIFFINATELY TURNED
AROUND FOR THE BEST. HE SAID WE NEEDED TO CONFIRM THIS TURNAROUND
WITH LABS. SO HE WROTE A PRESCRIPTION FOR LAB WORK TO BE DONE IN A FEW
DAYS AND WHEN HE GOT THE RESULTS, HE WOULD GIVE US A CALL. SUNDAY
MORNING, HE CALLED AT THE TIME KATHY WAS IN CHURCH. I WAS HOME ALONE
SITTING OUT BY THE MUSEUM. A LITTLE SCARED, I ASKED HIM HOW THE LABS
LOOKED? HE SAID, " LET ME FIRST SAY THAT IM JEALOUS. PUZZLED I
ASKED HIM WHAT HE MEANT? HE SAID THAT MY BLOOD TESTS HAD COME BACK
BETTER THAN HIS DO AND THAT MY KIDNEY FUNCTION WAS 100%, I WAS NO
LONGER ANEMIC AND MY OXYGEN LEVEL WAS PERFECT. YOU ARE GOOD TO
GO! ALL THIS TO SAY, IF YOU ARE NOT A BELIEVER PLEASE RECONSIDER!
AND IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WITH SLEEP APNEA, TELL THEM TO HAVE A SLEEP
STUDY DONE. THESE ARE BOTH EASY AND WILL PRODUCE HUGE REWARDS.
SORRY THIS TURN OUT TO BE SOOO LONG! WE ATTEMPTED A READERS DIGEST VERSION, BUT THIS IS THE BEST WE COULD DO!
AGAIN A HEART FELT THANKS FOR YOU ALL WHO PRAYED AND PULLED FOR ME TO COME OUT OF THIS!
WITH OUR LOVE,
DAN & KATHY ROUIT
PS. MOTORCYCLE PEOPLE ARE THE BEST!!!
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