Peter Murray is not doing well at all

First of all:  If you're on this filter and you don't know why, it's because I remember you as a current or former Callahanian.  And, as such, you may know or remember Peter Murray and his alternate avatars GingerBear, Agniputra and so on.

It is Peter Murray who is the subject of this post.  For the past week or so, Peter has been at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, England.  At the time of his admission, the root cause of his symptoms was unknown.

cymrullewes and I have just been informed, by hrrunka, a mutual friend who frequents #Callahans on irc.freenode.net and who has known Peter for some time, that Peter has now been transferred into intensive care, where he is on respiratory assistance and intensive dialysis.  He is having difficulty breathing due to fluid in his lungs and, reading between the lines, appears to be in end-stage renal failure.  At this time, he is breathing via a positive-pressure oxygen mask, but the hospital has made preparations to put him on a ventilator if the positive-pressure mask is not sufficient.  He has a drain in his neck, and there is discussion of putting an additional drain in his groin.

The medical information we have is limited, but the prognosis does not seem good.

Knowing nothing else that we can do at this time, we ask that you hold Peter in your thoughts and lend him your best wishes for recovery.