Daddy is slowly improving (baby steps). It always seems that he'll take two steps forward and then one back or vice versa. His white count is elevated again this morning, up to 12.0 from 10.4 yesterday. Said this could be due to the concentration of his urine output, but they are not sure. Daddy's blood sugar level has been up/down again. During the night it was around 60, but this morning it was 235 so they are still working on getting this regulated. Daddy is still having severe headaches. He's in so much pain from them that his whole body quivers and shakes. The doctors are not sure whats causing them at this point.
On the positive side of things. They took Daddy off the CPAP machine around 9:00 this morning to see how he does breathing on his own, so far so good. He's been off the ventilator machine for 7 hours now and he seem to be doing very well. He's still on 50% oxygen which is hooked to his trachea tube but that's it. His blood oxygen level has been running between 96 & 100% with him breathing on his own. The Respiratory Therapist did say that they may put Daddy back on the CPAP at night just to give his lungs a rest.
Now that he is off the CPAP machine he is able to move around more. He is actually sitting up in a chair right now beside the window. Sleeping of course because they had to give him so much pain medicine to get his head to stop hurting.
That's it for now. If there's any changes after Dr. Chen's evening assessment I will let everyone know.
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