Kirk had a very quiet night and so did I on my night with him. He hasn't had any serious heart rate issues since about 9 pm last night. The nurses are being more careful about how they suction him to try not to irritate him as much. He didn't seem to have a problem with the chest x-Ray this morning either.
Here comes the exciting bit. He opens his eyes much more now and looks around. Sometimes he will even track me or the nurses. He doesn't respond to commands right now. But during his neurological exam when he was pinched, he moved both arms towards the pinch and got good and mad. He also moved his legs some. I know it isn't that nice to be excited about him getting mad but it is a really good sign and we are excited.
We are going to try to get more water off of him today and decrease IV sedation. His fever is under control and he is coughing up stuff to get it out of his lungs.
He won't get his new central line until Monday. So he will keep all his IVs until then. If we can get him off IV sedation, all he will get in his IVs are antibiotics and heparin. As much as possible we will move to oral drugs.
We will see what the day brings as to whether I put up another post.
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