prayers needed...please help!

we found out on saturday that our dear friend tamara's dad dan suffered a stroke on saturday morning. he seemed to be responding well to treatments, knowing who everyone was and even passing various tests performed after someone has a stroke...that is until tuesday when things took a drastic turn.

with tamara's permission, i will leave it to her to better explain what happened. the following are from two emails we received from tam...

the first:
sunday 1.11.09 - 7:10 p.m.

"hello all. as many of you know, some of you do not know.... my dad suffered a stroke yesterday morning. thankfully, it happened in front of my mom and she knew the signs immediately. he arrived at reading hospital er via ambulance, spent time in the er, was moved into intensive care last night, and was moved to the stroke unit this afternoon. he did not lose consciousness at all and knows what happened. he is able to talk with slurred speech and he has his sense of humor. this afternoon he went for an mri/mra and we are awaiting the results. as soon as we receive them i will let you all know. tomorrow he will start speech, occupational and physical therapy tomorrow. please continue praying for my dad, my mom to continue to be the strong person that she is, and for my sister, kelly who is over in doha in the middle east. love to you all, tamara"

the second:
thursday 1.14.09 - 8:11 a.m.

"good morning all. for those of you who do not already know, my dad suffered a massive stroke on Saturday morning. he was doing okay until tuesday when he took a turn for the worse and the swelling in brain got so bad that in the middle of the night tuesday/early morning wednesday the neurosurgeon performed emergency brain surgery [edit: they removed the right side of his brain]. he came out of the surgery okay which was very risky. he is currently in the reading hospital's surgery intensive care unit. he is heavily sedated to keep his brain unstimulated. i am happy to report that my sister, kel and her husband, rami were able to travel home from doha, qatar yesterday and arrived safely last night. we are at an minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day wait to see progress. we were told that he will have good days and bad days. please pray for my dad and my mom for strength... i love you all and we are so thankful for your prayers. please, please pray. paige and lilly [edit: tamara and danny's 4 and 1 year old daughters] need their poppy. thank you, tam"

please, please pray for tamara's dad dan, it will be a tough road of recovery ahead of him...for tamara and her husband and children, for her mother, and for tamara's sister and her husband. feel free to leave your support for tamara in the comments. i will copy and send them all to her.