Saturday August 29, 2009 (Day 31)

Daddy's head hasn't been hurting near as much today. It has only bothered him when they suction his trachea out and he starts coughing a lot. Dr. Chen wants him off the CPAP machine 4 hours at a time. He's hoping if Daddy can do this for a couple days then he can be moved to a 12 on 12 off schedule. Daddy's getting very little support on the CPAP machine right now, but on it gives him a chance to rest and not get so tired. Dr. Chen ordered a culture of the mucus in Daddy's lungs to see if that is where the infection is coming from. He has been running a low grade temp. but they are not sure what it is from at this point. They just say he's got an infection. They also drew blood for the lab to run more tests.

Daddy's blood sugar has been dropping pretty low. At one point today it was down to 35 and they had to give him glucose through his IV to bring it up and then it only brought it to 100. His feeding tube was blocked and it took them a while to get this fixed. That could be the reason for the low sugar. (I'm just guessing though)

Daddy is more alert today than he's been in the past few days. His nurse put his bed in the "chair" position and he's sitting up watching TV. Although every now and then you look at him and he's just staring at the ceiling with an expression of confusion, as if he is trying to figure out why he's here and what is going on. I know he's got to be sick of being in that bed. He did ask for some yogurt today, but we explained to him that his throat muscles weren't strong enough yet for him to swallow something with that consistence so he was satisfied with orange juice.

That's pretty much it for today. I'll update again tomorrow.

Thanks again for all the prayers and support.