Peter Murray is not doing well at all

[unixronin]

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.

Comments

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

No, please no. GngrBear (along with the two of you) was one of the very few consistently good things about #C. Funny, charming, delightful--I can only imagine the joy his meatspace friends take in him.

[bfudlmint.livejournal.com]

Any clue if you can send flowers to his room like you can in the U.S.? Plus any clue how to do that?

[hrrunka]

I'd guess, with infection control and so on, there's a limit to what can be taken in to the Intensive Therapy ward, but my current plan involves going there this evening (16:30GMT, 17:30BST) so I'll print out messages and take those.

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

Alaric:

Can you unlock this post? There are #c folks not on this filter that'd like to read it.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I will give access to any Callahanians who ask.

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

Some of 'em don't have journals. Can I cut/paste content to #c?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

By all means.

IgA Nepropathy

[backtick.livejournal.com]

All, I couldn't seem to get a note over to hrrunka, but if someone on the gorund there can get word to check for this Autoimmune kidney disease (IgA Nepropathy), it might be the root cause. A friend of mine dealt with this, very similar type of events, and it wasn't tested for until the *second* biopsy. He's now in otherwise good health, with 3 or 4 times a week dialysis and around 1% native kidney function otherwise. It may not be it, as I'm no doctor, but god knows, I'm glad they did eventually test him for it, although I wish it'd been sooner. It's a sneaky disease, and only 1-2% of kidney disease is attibutable to it, but it tends to be male-dominated, so it might be a match.

*praying for the best news soon*

Re: IgA Nepropathy

[hrrunka]

Noted, thanks. He's been having treatment for poor liver function for some years, and part of that treatment involved diuretics. Seems his recent problems began when he forgot (or was unable) to get a new batch of the diuretic.

[meglimir.livejournal.com]

*prayers* and more *prayers*

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn! Good Thoughts offered for the best possible outcome.

[bfly.livejournal.com]

Oh, nonono, not GingrBear! Many, many good thoughts going out to him and his.

[drdemure.livejournal.com]

Peter will be in our thoughts and prayers. He has given us so much joy, and asked nothing. Our best to him.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Good Thoughts on the way.

[genuine-snark.livejournal.com]

My thoughts are with Peter and his many facets.