Papa did pretty good during the night until about 6:00am when they had to turn him while giving his bath. His heart rate dropped to 24, but came back up rather quickly. During this episode, they had to increase the ventilator settings back up. The doctor came in today and said that his heart is working at about 30-35% where normal is 45-50%. Last monday his percentage was normal so that is a little cause for concern. If these episodes continue, they will discuss a pacemaker but we hope this was just a one time event. He is still opening his eyes and nodding his head today. He is leaving the tube alone for right now. They started again weaning him off the ventilator and we will see how that goes again.
I've been home with Caitlin today. I've been either working or at the hospital a lot lately and was missing my little girl. We've had lots of fun playing today and just enjoying each other. I'll be heading back up there tomorrow for a visit and then to work this weekend. Please pray for Lee who will be leaving tomorrow taking 26 young people to Gatlinburg for a conference type of thing. He has plenty of adults going along, but it's still a big undertaking. As long as Papa is stable he will be going, I shoud say.
Please also pray for one of my uncles who was just taken to the hospital and is in the ER now having tests run. His legs are not wanting to move right now. He fell down this morning and can't seem to stand. They're doing a CT scan as we speak.
I'll update on things again tomorrow. Thank you all for checking on us and praying.
2 years ago
No comments:
Post a Comment