Well I have to say I made an oops. Nothing serious but if Kirk wakes up anytime soon and sees himself he might not be happy. He is bald. I though a buzz cut would leave home with at least a quarter inch or so. Um, no his hair is all gone except for the occasional stray that got missed. It will be easy to keep clean now.
He had CTs of his head, chest and abdomen yesterday. His head is consistent with his last CT. His chest shows only the pneumonia, and his abdomen is clear. He should get his new central line today and the femoral line removed. So we continue to look for another source of infection and to verify through cultures that we are treating his lungs with the right meds. His temperature is more under control this morning and his oxygen saturation is good. We are on hold to treat the clot until the central line is in so it will be at least tomorrow before we make progress there. The doctor did show me the head CT and I looked at some of the others over time and there are remarkable differences. The swelling is way down and the bruises are resolving.
The other thing the doctor said was as soon as his fever is controlled we will start weaning him off the ventilator. As we get his fever under control he will be awake enough to start breathing on his own. That is so exciting to me. We still haven't seen discrete movement if arms or legs but it is difficult with the level of sedation. Getting him off the ventilator will mean better health for his lungs and less possibility for pneumonia.
I will put up a short post tonight with any new news. (That's bad grammar.). I am hopping it is only central line in and fever under control.
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