i'm not there yet...

so as many of you all may have learned i am not in the Philippine's quite yet. I am currently writing this in the weekend of May 23. This week has been very unexpected and very unplanned.
As some of you may, I received a phone call from my friend Joe on Wednesday morning after receiving text messages all night of which I didn't know of because I was sleeping. I had gotten a text from my friend Atticus asking me if I knew my best friend Jt was in the hospital. I had know idea of this. After quickly trying to scramble around and find out an answer to why this was, in short, my world was shaken. My friend Joe finally called me back and informed me that Jt had collapsed when running on Tuesday night with his girlfriend and that he had been rushed to the ER for emergency treatment. I suddenly found out from several others that it wasn't looking good. I did what I only knew to do and hit the highway as quick as I could.
My mom by my side we flew up I-65 and bluegrass parkway to lexington, KY. This seemed to be one of the longest drives of my life. You are trying to concentrate on not being run off the road my the 18 wheeler that is veering into your lane while trying to text and call to see the latest update all the while thinking to yourself what in the world is going on.
We finally reached the UK hospital and headed to the floor where he was to meet my friends who were there and his girlfriend Emily. As a side note, I had kept it together pretty well until now. Emily and I embraced and a couple of tears fell but the thought still lingering in my head was, where is my buddy? I had been thinking on the ride up of what he was going to look like, was he going to speak, how did he feel, even just trying to prepare myself for this. Needless to say I had not prepares enough.
Emily led me into his 8th floor room in the ICU unit. I walked into his room. I stood at the doorway shaking as I saw my best friend in the world(one of two) laying lifeless in this hospital bed. It seemed as though he had a tube coming from every orifice in his body. His lifeless body just lay there. The only thing that moved was his chest. A machine had to keep my buddy alive, he couldn't do it on his own. His eyes just stared lifeless into space. I will tell you this much, seeing your best friend in the world laying in this hospital bed, having a machine breath for him, with his eyes open, his chest pumping, and nothing at all that you can do for him is the worst feeling in the world. Me and Emily just stood there. Afraid to touch him, afraid to speak, afraid to do anything. I will have this image in my head for my life.
At this point of the blog I just want to say that this isn't a blog about me and my troubles, it is not that at all. This is all about my best friend Jt. It is about anyone who has a best friend or a boyfriend or a girlfriend or a mom or a dad or a grandma or grandpa. This is for the people who have been made who they are by the help of someone else.
I can say today that Jt has made me who am I today. He has my history, he knows my emotions, he feels my humor, he knows my pains, he has seen me naked. He is my best buddy and he is me. Everything that he is, i am and everything that i am, he is. And nothing will ever change this.
After that being said just a word of update. Jt is doing better. The problem with his collapse while he and Emily were running seems to stem from his heart. Over the last couple of days he has seen major improvement. He can now breathe on his own, he is eating and drinking, he has his long term memory, he knows who we all are, he is starting to understand where he is and why he is in the hospital, and these are all good things. Jt is still having small problems with his short term memory. He recognizes people and different things but may forget that 5 minutes later. The doctors are still trying to learn more about his brain and his heart in the upcoming days.
If anyone who reads this is a praying person you can use the following things as a guideline to pray for him:

• That God would guide the doctors and the nurses to be with them when working with Jt and working with developing a diagnoses.
• That God would keep Jt from any kind of hurt or pain while going through these next few days.
• That God would give him good rest while he is there.
• That God would give good rest and patience to his mom Kerry, his dad Bob, and Emily while they are there spending the majority of their time with him.
• Pray that his strength may be regained in the next couple of days so that he will be strong enough to have the doctors work with him.
• Pray that God would give protection to him and his family and his friends who are traveling to see him.

• Pray that God would be glorified through all of this.

I hope that those people who read this will find it not informative but more useful than anything. From going back to Lexington for this i have learned several things.

1. Cherish you friendships more and more each day.
2. Pray constantly because God never gets tired of hearing from his children and he also never gets tired of answering people prayers.
3. God plans things in peoples lives for a reason.
4. I am glad that i have people in my life that I love and that love me.

So with all of this being said, continue to pray for my friend Jt in the following days and weeks. He has fought through the beginning he just needs to keep on fighting to the end.

I love you Jt...