Yikes!

Greg & I went to see Uncle J for the 5:30 p.m. visitation, but when we got there they were cleaning him and asked us to wait. We were waiting outside his door when we heard the nurse repeatedly calling his name. Then, one of the aides came out and asked us to wait in the lobby until they called us. We did as they said and when we went back in the nurse said that he did fine when they turned him on one side, but when they went to turn him to the other he went into bradycardia (his heartbeat had dropped to the 30's) and he was unresponsive. Usually when he has these he can bring himself back up, but he wasn't this time. They had to do CPR and give him a shot of Atropine. He was then on the ventilator for full support for a little bit, so he could rest. By the time we left he was down to 8 breaths per minute from the ventilator, and I just got a call from my mom that he is back to only getting one breath per minute from the ventilator, doing all the rest himself. It was quite nerve wracking, but these things happen with spinal cord injuries, one of the nurses said sometimes even a wrinkle in a bed can be the cause of something since all the pathways are little messed up! Hopefully tomorrow will be a little less stressful...