Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Today has been quite mixed. The news about Brian's heart is quite good. He is off all support for the heart and it is behaving quite well. Doctors are really no longer worried about his heart. But, the lung infection which he got from aspirating vomit at the time of the attack has resulted in an infection. This turns out to be harder to get rid of than first imagined (at least by me). Today minutes before they were to take out the ventilator, the pulmonologist (sp?) said that the newest chest x-ray looked worse so the ventilator removal is on hold for a while. They now seem to have a more precise fix on the bacteria and new antibiotics are being used. They also have brought him a little closer to consciousness which in itself is mixed. It is clearly good in that he coughs more etc. but he is clearly in great discomfort. His face becomes contorted and tears appear. I think this is only because of the ventilator but am not sure. It's hard to watch and harder on him but surely worth it. Pat

4 comments:

  1. Ask the nurses if he will remember this time. My experience is that he won't. Knowing that may help you watch him go through it.

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  2. The nurses and doctors are in pretty general agreement that he won't remember this time which does help but only a little.

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  3. Hi Pat, Really difficult news. Our thoughts are with you and if there is anything we can do to help like watering your plants etc. just let us know. Judy

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  4. Got a text from Kim earlier. sounds like vent is out. guess that means the infection is less of a problem than yesterday.

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