friday

We are thankful everyday for Daddy's Dr.s. We have a trama Dr. that is staying very close to dad's case. He is having several problems today. His pancrease is slow and they gave him insulin today to help it out, not sure if this is new or if it just was bad enough today to give him the insulin. His kidneys keep improving very slowly but improving. They ran three hours of dialysis yesterday and are again today. they took 3 Lts of fluid off yesterday, that is about 6 and 1/2 lbs of fluid. This will probably continue for a few more days. His heart was running fast after surgery so they had a continual med in his iv. they were going to push through a lg dose to correct the speed when they noticed that daddy had self corrected. so no push. Today though, his heart has sped back up and a cardio team has been called in to evaluate. They are keeping him sedated so he can continue to heal. The vent is slowly being weaned off.