VOM Canada's Glenn Penner Back in the Hospital

 Today I wanted to ask everyone to please keep our friend Glenn Penner in your prayers.  Glenn is suffering with cancer and also has a lot of side effects due to the cancer and various treatments.  Right now he is in the hospital still in very severe pain.  Glenn's wife Denita has updated his blog with the following.  Please pray for Glenn and his whole family.

Hi!  Just wanted to write a quick note to let you know that Glenn is back in the hospital.  Last weekend was a nightmare as far as the pain was concerned, so on Tuesday, the doctor decided the best thing would be to change Glenn's medication from the pain pump to Methadone and oral drug.  He told us, though, that it is very difficult  to figure out the proper dosage with Methadone, so he wanted Glenn in the hospital for the switch over.  Thursday night was the worst night of pain for Glenn yet, so when the doctor came to see him in the morning he told Glenn he was going to increase the dosage, but he would be very sleepy.  By that time, Glenn was about ready for anything and he agreed so for the last 2 days Glenn has been sleeping most of the time.  Yesterday Glenn woke up with a fever and his hemoglobin was down to 69, so blood cultures and other tests were done to see if he has an infection of some kind and he was given another 2 bags of blood last night.  When I saw him last night he had better color and was more alert so the extra blood seems to have helped him a bit. 

Please pray for peace for Glenn.  He is quite discouraged by this latest turn of events.  I will try to keep you informed.

Denita 

If you'd like to keep up on the latest with Glenn and Denita, please bookmark Glenn's personal blog at http://glennpenner.blogspot.com .  You may leave comments there to encourage them.  Please do.