By Mark Maynard
Kentucky Today
Veteran lawmaker John “Bam” Carney has been hospitalized with a severe case of pancreatitis and infection, according to the family. Family members say that he is improving but have been told “he’s not out of the woods yet.”
Bam Carney
He took ill after church on Sunday while eating lunch but thought it was a virus. Carney went to the emergency room at 4 a.m. Monday, the family’s Facebook post said. He was diagnosed with pancreatitis with a sugar level of 590 and a high white blood count.
“As many of you know, Thursday was a very hard day but, thanks be to God, improvements have been made the past two days,” Mark Carney wrote on a Facebook post on Saturday. “Doctors were encouraged today but reminded us that he is still a very sick man.”
The post said doctors at Norton Hospital in Louisville told the family “we are not out of the woods yet but, at this time, we are headed in the right direction.”
The post said he underwent two surgeries on Monday and has been in the ICU since then. Carney is on dialysis to assist the kidneys, the family said.
“Doctors say he is probably the sickest patient they have in the hospital now (at Norton’s),” the post said.
A nurse told the family he could have feeding tubes for weeks and drain tubes for months.
The family said: “We are so thankful to God and His healing powers and so grateful for everyone who is praying.”
