by Mike Woodruff | May 2, 2014 | Health Updates
ICU is a series of pokes, tubes, and other indignities. The tubes might be the worst. At one point–with 6 heart leads, two IVs, a central line into my jugular vein, and a feeding tube going into my nose–I had ten tubes going into me. Rolling over required...
by Mike Woodruff | May 1, 2014 | Health Updates
It’s not uncommon for us to feel defined by a major event. Especially a major negative event – eg, a divorce, bankruptcy, cancer, stroke, etc. The truth is these things can overwhelm us and appear to be our story but after a while they become just a part...
by Mike Woodruff | Apr 30, 2014 | Health Updates
Hi Everyone! Thank you, thank you for the huge outpouring of love and support that we have received!! We have not felt alone in this at all and really appreciate hearing from so many friends from all over the world! I know that many of our dear friends from...
by Mike Woodruff | Apr 29, 2014 | Health Updates
In the mornings, Sheri has been reading me a chapter of Andrew Murray’s classic devotional, Abide in Christ. It is a meditation on John 15 and the metaphor that Christ is the vine and we are the branches, and we need to stay intimately connected to him. In this...
by Mike Woodruff | Apr 27, 2014 | Health Updates
Patience and ataxia. I need the first. I have the second. Ataxia means I have a lack of order to my movements (“a” is Greek for not, “taxia” means order). I’m getting better, but I have a long way to go. I am now off the Neuro ICU floor and am in a step down...
