Kirk's biggest fight right now is infection and the fever associated with that. They are treating his staph based pneumonia but trying to find if there is something else going on. They continue to take samples to culture of all his bodily fluids. They also continue to treat with Tylenol and cooling.
The big event of the day is that the ICP catheter has been removed. We are no longer monitoring his ICP. We have lived by the little white number in parenthesis (his inter cranial pressure) for three weeks. And now it is gone. And he is off the EEG so we can give him a proper wash of his head. I may go ahead and have his hair cut to a buzz cut. It will be easier to keep clean and it will grow back. Sorry Honey.
Intensive anticoagulation therapy for the clot may start as early as tomorrow. Neurological exams will be vitally important now because the ICP monitor is gone. Neurological exams are the only picture we will have of what is happening in his head.
He is going to start a more intensive nebulizer routine to try to clear his lungs. He is also going to get a new central line and the femoral line removed. The doctors want to eliminate the femoral line as an infection possibility. He will have to go to a surgical suite for that.
I will likely put up another short post this evening just because it has been a busy day so far. Thank you for your continued support and prayers. Sidney and I are truly touched to be so well supported right now.
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