What a night!!

Jon is back at Rhodes Hall in the Medical ICU. His blood pressure dropped again down to 62/?? (Dad did not record the lower number) early in the morning. He also has a small pneumonia in his left lung (previous pneumonias were in the right lung). The wound vac had only been on for 3 days before he was transferred. Each new place wants to evaluate it with their own team and he has been transferred on weekends. The wound care teams do not work on the weeekends. Therefore the wound care team with Rhodes will not be able to assess it until tomorrow. The floor nurse has looked at it and says it looks healthy and she doesn't think they will put it back on but that it is up to the wound care team. It looks healthy because it's been on the vac!!!! With out the vac it gets gunked up quickly. Hopefully tomorrow will not be too late. After 24 hours off the last time, it was too gunked to put back on but not gunked enough to debride (surgically clean it out) and put back on the vac. What a catch 22.

He was given a pain med that makes him sleep alot and so he was out of it for a little while. The MICU has strict visitation so we are not able to be with him like we have been able up to now. Vistitation is from 5-6 am, 9 - 10 am, 1 - 2 pm, 5 - 6 pm, 9 - 10 pm. For the 1-2 pm visit I got there at 1:30. The nurse was really nice and since he just got checked in around 10:45 am, she let me stay until 3:00. She did remind me however of the visitation so it will be enforced from now on. He seemed to be in good spirits while I was there.

Please pray for healing of the vertebraes, lungs, brain damage, the bed sore; that his pain would decrease and we could lower his pain meds; and for him to remain in good spirits. I miss his laughter. I did make him laugh a couple of times today and he even stuck his tongue out at me. Please pray for the family and our health. Mom came down with the flu. It is stressful on all.

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