Agreed, Thank you! Hopefully the ECMO will help. Layman’s terms for people who dont want to read the pdf, ECMO is essentially a lung bypass. It give his lungs the ability to focus on healing without having to work so hard to provide oxygen to the blood. It will also help keep his O2 stats high enough to keep everything else running well. From what I’ve heard, it has a pretty decent success rate as long as the damage isn’t already too extensive.
Best of luck Greg! We’ll talk to you soon.
Best of luck indeed! We are all pulling for you and your wife. Prayers, courage and positive attitude - you will do this!!!
I pray you and your wife get well soon.
Wow, that’s some serious care. Thank God for modern medicine and doctors/hospitals willing to apply it non-politically! It brings a ton of peace knowing Greg is established in his faith and knows, whatever the outcome, he’s ultimately in God’s hands. We’ll keep those prayers rising!
Praying
Prayers for our brother in Christ.
Hang tough Greg. God enters us through our wounds. He’s got this.
Greg, hope you got a good WiFi signal and can see all of your friends are pulling and praying for you. Anyone who has these folks as friends is truly rich! BTW- my puppy, Inga says ‘Hi’ and she hates this stuff, too!
Anything more from Greg? He’s been heavy on my heart and in my mind.
My text messages have gone unanswered, and I’ve heard nothing from his wife. 
I am concerned. Any time someone is on any type of life support, that speaks volumes to the seriousness of the situation. 
Thanks for the updates and hoping we will get good news soon. Very serious situation for sure. 
Every time I open this thread it is not without a little Trepidation.
His phone is off, I called today.
Straight to voicemail…
That doesn’t set me at ease.
No
It could be a lack of service. I lose service when i enter some buildings, and having been at MUSC with @GamecockOperator years ago I can say it is one of those types of buildings.
From what I understand in my conversations with Greg, during his first hospitalization he received the convalescent plasma that you mentioned, steroids, and Remdesivir…the standard Corona protocol. The same treatment I got, the same treatment everyone gets.
It didn’t take. Once back at home on 5L of forced oxygen intake, his pulse Ox was in the low 70s. Maybe the high 60s.
With his home health care nurse concerned about respiratory failure he was taken by ambulance back to the university hospital in Florence.
There it was determined he needed advanced life support at MUSC to relieve the stress on his heart and lungs with the ECMO. Transfer was to be by ambulance, upgraded to air ambulance at some point.
We all know Greg is in capable hands receiving the best care possible. At the same time, his wife is also battling Covid with double pneumonia at home. While she’s been holding her own, her situation is also day by day. Lungs already stressed by the virus are hardly equipped to also deal with fluid buildup in the lungs.
Being separated from loved ones during a fight such as this, doesn’t help. They need to be together, like any family dealing with trauma. I went though the same thing, being hospitalized while my wife and oldest son dealt with Covid at home. It was my oldest’ s second battle with Covid.
I will continue trying to make contact with Greg and will report any and all updates. I try once a day via text, giving him the option to respond at his convenience. He doesn’t need me badgering him. Yesterday was the first time I tried to call.
Thanks for trying to keep everyone updated, Its really appreciated.
Still thinking about you and praying for you, Greg!
You and another long-distance friend’s mother (also quite ill with the virus) are both very much in my thoughts right now.
Just checking in, letting you know; if you have opportunity to drop in here, but are unable to respond!