- Dad had more of his lung colapse so they had to insert the chest tube. They tried a smaller one and it didn't do the job so they had to use a larger one. Also said that he will be in some pain from the tube. We do not know how much of the lung is now colapsed, the nurse was waiting on the actual report to add to her file, then she will be able to tell us.
- Blood pressure was staying lower then what they want, so he is on a low drip for that.
- From when he was on the Bypass machine in the beginning he still has a hole in his groin on his left side, well as a result of everything with the chest tube that popped out spraying blood everywhere, so now he has a clamp on it for the next 4 hours and new packing. Nurse said that it has stopped bleeding.
- Obviously still on ventilator...at 50% going to leave that alone with everything going on with his lung.
- From the time that dad woke up from the surgery until even tonight he has been complaining of his left shoulder/neck area hurting him, she mentioned that he was complaining of pain there, I informed her of that being the same earlier in the day and one reason why he was given pain medicine at 2pm, so she was going to have the doctor on duty tonight take a look at things. This is also one area that his port was placed.
- They have him on a light sedation right now with everything that is going on and the pain that he could be experiencing, together with some pain meds.
- He wants so bad to open his eyes and look at you and talk, but afterawhile his eyes roll back and he closes his them. We tried all day to just tell him to rest, but anyone who knows dad knows that he is going to try to be awake and with you.
This has been hard on all of us, we know that we will have bad days along with good days, but that doesn't make the bad days any easier. Mom has especially had it rough with this being the first day she hasn't been up at the hospital in 15 days, and the one day she leaves all this happens. The state that he has been in all day just brings back all the memories of where we were a week or so ago and mom was very very emotional all day and espeically at the 8pm visit. Mom is also having to handle alot of things with MeeMaw right now with being the POA, hence why she was gone today. So please overall continue to keep her in your prayers more then ever.
Along with all your prayers for dad please add the situation with his lungs. The doctors have been saying for awhile now that his lungs and kidneys are the weekest of all his organs. Thank you so very much!
As of now we will not have extra visitors visiting dad, as we feel that less is more right now during visitation times. Although, if you are a priest/pastor of the family please call mom ahead of time to see if she feels it would be okay to quickly pray for him...or come and pray with her. I know that dad really really likes having the prayers personally done at bedside. Also adding, if you want to visit tomorrow for moms sake during all the down hours, please come, I know that she will enjoy the company and it will br comforting to her.
God Bless!!!
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