I spoke with James last night around 1:00am and went in to visit him this morning. Currently he's in the ICU on a 12-lead (heart monitor) as he usually is for the first few days. When his blood calcium level gets too low it messes with the rest of his body chemistry, including his heart. His heart is becoming overtaxed from the calcium fluctuations over the past 9+ years. So far there doesn't seem to be any permanent damage and I pray it stays that way but his sitting heart rate continues to be dangerously high.

As far as the tetany he was experiencing last night, they have him on a calcium drip through his IV. He was fighting me a little regarding going into the hospital as he was terrified the doctor was going to have to put in a main line because of the years of IV calcium which has hardened his veins making it extremely difficult to insert a standard IV. Jamie and I prayed on the way home from the hospital (after we dropped him off) last night that God would send someone who could successfully insert a standard IV so he wouldn't have to go the main line route. He said the first ER nurse tried a few times and couldn't get a cooperative vein but a second nurse came in and was able to successfully insert the IV. Praise Jesus!! I noticed this morning that his left wrist (the IV site) is bandaged up pretty good to prevent it from bending at the point where the IV goes in. I know a lot of you probably already know about a lot of the medical terms, etc. but for those of you who don't, I'm just trying to help a bit.

When I saw him this morning, he looked a thousand times better than he did last night. I expect him to be in the hospital for the better part of the week at least. Our pastor called this morning to check on the children and I and let me know that he would also be going in to visit James today. I'll continue to update as needed.