Daniel

On Friday night, my younger brother Daniel collapsed at work. He couldn't feel or move his legs. They transported him by ambulance to the hospital, where a CAT scan showed a tear in his aorta, near his groin. He was airlifted to a bigger hospital and spent over 6 hours in 2 surgeries to repair the tear. The surgeons were able to get a stint into the vein, remove most of the clotting, and restore some bloodflow to both legs. He is stable, for now, and in the ICU, hooked up to a million devices. Once his surgical team feels more confident about where things are at, they will do more testing (some of it probably surgical) to figure out the underlying condition that caused a healthy 26-year-old's aorta to rupture. We are sitting in waiting rooms all day, our collective stomach in our collective mouth. Daniel is depressed and scared. Please keep him in your thoughts and, if you're into such things, your prayers.