Asking for Prayers for a dear friend

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A very dear friend of mine, Jim, was admitted to the hospital for shortness of breath. Appears that he has some sort of lung infection, but unfortunately he is not responding to the antibiotics. No history of cancer of any sort and at this point the doctor's have done a biopsy of which the initial report came back clear. Now waiting for the full report. He's been on oxygen for a week and late last night he developed a severe coughing spell and stopped breathing. The doctors were afraid that he might have punctured a lung so they had to incubate him. After incubating him, they put him in a drug induced coma. I spoke with his wife, Becki, this morning and the doctors are not offering much encouragement/hope. Jim is the sweetest man I have ever met and has always been there for me through thick and thin. He is in Virginia where I moved from and at this point I just am not physically able to make the trip up to see him. I did speak to him on Saturday and he was very cheerful and positive. I strongly believe in the power of prayer and am asking my sisters/brothers here to please keep him in your prayers. Thank you so much.