September 6 Update 1

I spent the night at the hospital with Kirk. It has nothing to do with the care he is being given or a worry that I won't be contacted as needed.  It was only for me to have one night close to my husband. I am trying to balance my time between Kirk and Sidney and last night Sidney was well taken care of and I needed to be with the other love of my life.

It was another difficult night. Controlling Kirk's ICP (cranial pressure) still defeats the doctors. They had started cooling him last night to 95 and now they are taking him to 91.5F.  He is tolerating that but it is mostly because they have added paralytics to his medicine regime.  So he is on sedatives, pain killers and now a paralytic.  This also means he is even less responsive than he was.  His pupils are larger and less responsive now also. He still has a fever so they will bring Tylenol back in to help control that and did another X-ray of his lungs just to make sure that all looks OK.

We did wash his face last night and replaced AT&T the tape on his tubes. The swelling in his face reduces every day. His black eyes are slow to fade and even his eyeballs are swollen. These simple physical problems will heal with time.

He continues to be one of the sickest patients in the hospital. He is still in a critical phase of the affects from his injury. There is one more medicine if needed to try to control the cranial pressure but then we will be out of medicine options.

His nurse again today is Jessie and he has a student, which if he was his normal self, he would appreciate.  His nurse last night was Crystal and the past several nights he has had Jakob.  He is getting super care from everyone here and they consider him as one of their own.

I will put up another update later today if anything changes. Thank you again for your continuing support and prayers.

Kimber