Hi Kristi,
I am glad that you got the information on where to send get well wishes to michael. My sister lisa is there with him now and while I was on the phone with her- michael woke up and I told her that you were asking for him and he gave a thumbs up. So he knows that everyone is thinking of him.
As to what happened to him, he had a staph infection that was not treated correctly and the infection colonized into his blood stream and traveled to his lungs, he then got sick on top of that and his body just could not take any more. The staph infection lowered his immune system so much that he picked up MRSA which is in his blood stream and lungs. He is on very heavy antibiotics trying to kill this infection and they are testing every other organ to make sure that it did not colonize there.
According to one of his co workers staph was a common infection last year and many people were hospitalized.
Today he had a test done to make sure he did not damage any heart valves (which seems to come back negative) and a CT scan of his brain and sinus cavities to make sure there were clear (so far negative). It will take a while before this clears up . I am waiting for the doctor to call me know with an update. When I hear something I will let you know.