Kirk's temperature is much better this morning. They were able to test the dose of antibiotic in his body and there wasn't enough to fight infection so they increased his dose. So hopefully we are now ahead of this infection. His lungs are still have some frothy stuff that they are trying to work out with special treatments, sedation and ventilator settings. We aren't having to cool him to control his temperature right now. He is still on IV Tylenol to help control his temperature so the real test will be tomorrow when he is off of that.
He will go to MRI today to see how deep his bed sore is and to see if it needs surgical intervention. After his trip to MRI, sedation will be reduced to try waking him up again. The higher dose of anticoagulant will start today also. This doesn't break the clot but will keep it from progressing. After several days of this, we will try a clot breaking drug. He will be on that drug for many months. His neurological exams will be very important now to make sure nothing bad is happening in his head.
As he wakes up and breathes more on his own, we will be able to start sitting him up and getting him moving again. That is still two or more weeks away.
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