Help HOPE Live for Carl Allison

June 8, 2023

We are praising God Carl finally made it to Shirley Ryan rehab in Chicago! So grateful to all the doctors, nurses, therapists and all who cared for him this past year at Northwestern. It was a long difficult journey thus far and now the hard work of rehab begins. Please pray for him as he goes through this process and remember the donor family in your prayers that gave Carl more time with us. All the prayers have kept us going. Thank you all!

April 11, 2023

Carl has been working hard on his strength and was able to walk down the hall yesterday!

March 9, 2023

It has been an awesome week for Carl, he has FINALLY gotten to eat, and today is his birthday and they celebrated with cake!!

February 27, 2023

Carl got moved at the beginning of the week to a corner room with two big windows and a great view. It helps him to have something beautiful to look at. He is finally doing better since getting infections under control. Awake more and able to be on a trach collar again for 4 to 6 hours which allows him to talk a little. Praying he gets stronger this week and able to do it longer each day.

He longs to eat or drink and it's not been possible since he got his new lungs last October. He will need to be off the vent for several days then he can work with speech therapy again to swallow. We are praying for this and for his diaphragm to strengthen. Thank you for praying with us!

February 6, 2023

We are still at Northwestern Hospital. Carl is getting some strength back and can stand with help to get up for about half a minute 3 or 4 times when physical therapy comes in. He is on a 6 week course of antibiotics for a bacterial infection. We have about 4 weeks left on that. His lungs are doing great, but his carbon dioxide levels are hard to manage because his diaphragm is weak.

He is still on a feeding tube, but it was moved from his nose to his stomach and intestine. The speech therapist should be working with him this week to work on swallowing so he can get to being able to eat something.

Please pray over these things. We are grateful for all the continued prayers and so grateful to God for carrying us through each day. He is faithful.

January 3, 2023

Update from Carl 1/3/23

January 3, 2023

Carl had a good week! He did not seem to be in much pain and was able to be off the ventilator during the daytime hours each day except Thursday. This is definitely good progress! We are praying that he will continue to be off the ventilator during daytime each day this coming week! He is mainly breathing on his own with a little oxygen help through the trach collar during the day. We believe this is what the respiratory doctors are looking for so Carl can move to the next step to get him off the ventilator. They are working towards getting it back to where he will be able to speak again soon. Keep those prayers coming!

November 29, 2022

Carl is still in the ICU, he has a trach currently. They have had to replace it a few times due to it not functioning properly. They have taken quite a lot of fluid off his lungs, which they say isn't totally abnormal. He has been using a trach collar for a little practice a few hours a day. More testing to figure out why he has trembling and hot flashes, he's still hanging in there!

November 21, 2022

Friday night Carl had stood up with much help during physical therapy, even lifted his feet in place. Passed the swallow test enough to have his first soft bites of food. That night he went into cardiac arrest, he is currently on a ventilator once again. He is breathing pretty much on his own but getting rid of the co2 when he sleeps is causing heart problems. After much discussion with doctors they feel the best thing to do at this time is to put another trach in. It should be a smaller trach than before. Talking will come after healing from Surgery hopefully just a few days.

Surgery will be this afternoon if everything goes as planned.

Thanks for all your prayers! It helps us so much knowing we have prayer warriors!

November 13, 2022

Carl is off the vent and has had the trach removed! He is on very low amount of oxygen via nose canula and has a bipap at night. He needs prayers to help him learn to swallow again and regain strength! We pray he will get strong enough soon to go to a rehab that is across the street from Cindas apartment. Keep those prayers coming!

November 7, 2022

November 4, 2022

Carl is doing well but is still working on getting off the vent. His goals now are to get off the vent, be able to swallow, and get stronger. He has upped his time daily on the vent this week, which is positive.

Doctors at Northwestern want him to be vent free and be able to stand or walk shortly. If not they may move him to another hospital that can give him more physical therapy than he is getting. Doctors are trying their best to push that date back, prayers are appreciated!

October 21, 2022

Carl received his new lungs on 10/11 and they are doing well! There was a bit of a setback, his heart was struggling and he had developed bacteria in his kidneys. They got him on dialysis temporarily to clean his kidneys out and his heart is doing a little better. Yesterday he had to have a surgery to clean out his chest cavity, it had some bleeding but seemed to have stopped and they put in a trach so he could get off the vent. He did so great today and got to sit up for the first time since before his transplant and got to stand assisted a few times too! This man is strong, we appreciate all the prayers and financial assistance! We are blessed!

October 12, 2022

Carl is out of surgery and doing well!! Continued prayers for healing!!

October 11, 2022

Carl is currently in surgery getting his new lungs!!!

October 4, 2022

Carl has finished radiation and has OFFICIALLY been listed for his double lung transplant! Thank you to everyone for your prayers and financial donations! We can not do this without you!! Keep praying for patience and for the prospective donor and their family.