Prayer request from a friend....

I almost forgot to include this prayer request from my friend TE...please keep the Harris family in your prayers....

Hello All,
For those of you who don't know or haven't heard yet, my Dad (R Harris) is in CCU and he and I need prayers right now. I'll try to be short. Mom & Dad took a cruise last week during spring break. They left on Saturday 3-17, and Dad became ill, probably from sea sickness on Monday evening 3-19. They were at dinner and he started feeling ill, so he told Mom that he was going back to the room. Mom got up a few minutes later to find him in the lobby of the restaurant sitting there where he had gotten sick. She took him to the infermery on the ship and they briefly checked him out and said that he may have a collapsed lung, but for him to just get some rest that he would feel fatigued and gave him some sea sick pills. He carried on and began having shortness of breath, didn't feel like eating or drinking and had pain in his chest under his rib cage around his back. He went back to the infermery a couple more times and they said that he had probably pulled a muscle when he got sick, so they gave him a muscle relaxer. He carried on like this for Tuesday and Wednesday even going on their excurisions! He was in a lot of pain and being stubborn, didn't think it was that serious, well they got home on Thursday afternoon and made a doctor's appt. for Friday morning. He went to the appt. this past Friday and they sent him immediately to the hospital. What ended up happening was that when he got sick, he tore a hole in his esophagus which in turn leaked fluid into his lungs and made them collapse. He had surgery on Friday to remove a portion of his esophagus and has an infection in and around his lungs that they are treating with 3-4 high antibotics. The main thing now it to treat the infection and then we will deal with the other. He has a chest tube, 2 tubes to drain the fluid from his lungs, a spit tube, a stomach tube for feeding, since he can't eat or drink anything. He was sedated still after the surgery on Friday and all of Saturday, but they did take the ventilator off him yesterday moring and he woke up and was alert and able to talk a little bit. He can't move his mouth very much and he sounds hoarse when he talks. They did sit him up in the bed for awhile yesterday too. He's a very strong man and is doing better, but each day is a new step. I don't think Dad knows the severity of everything and we really don't want him to know at least not yet. He doesn't need any set backs. Eventually they may try to repair his esophagus, if it can be repaired. If it can be repaired, they will have to check his colon, small intestine and stomach to see if there is a match and if it is good, if so, then they will take a part of his small intestine or stomach to repair it. Like I said earlier, we want to fight the infection first.
PLEASE I know about the power of prayer, so I know I have that with each of you. It's going to be a long road, but I know with prayer and strength he will get through this. I'll try to keep everyone updated.

THANKS EVERYONE!!!!