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

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