wed night

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

I just got home from the hospital. This morning the

dr. said that justin was surprisingly stable. This

afternoon cultures started coming back and he has

psudamonis, vancomyacin resillient infection, caused

from the antibiotic itself and something else. So,

he's quite ill. Surprise. They have him on a drug to

keep his blood pressure up. Today while getting an

antibiotic, his heart rate spiked into the 180's

occasionally. Always came down on it's own. The nurse

thought it was the combination of the two drugs at the

same time. Then tonight as I thought about leaving, it

went up to over 200 and stayed there for about 10 min.

They paged the resident who came and they were

preparing to give him a drug that would have stopped

his heart momentarily in hopes to restart. About the

time they were approved for that, it went back down on

it's own. Cardiology said it's prob just the dopamine,

bp med and to discontinue it. Problem is his blood

pressure would come down to low, so they plan to wean

him down and hope the smaller amount keeps the

pressure up. They put in an " art " line which goes into

an artery to get better bp measures and draw blood

gases without sticking him all the time. I left after

about 2 hours of no more episodes. So, they plan to

wait til Friday to go back in to remove the packing

and try to close him up. Give the new antibiotics time

to kick in a bit. That's about it, he's pretty much

knocked out and had mittens on from trying to extubate

himself. I took them off this afternoon when he

promised to not do that and I was watching. A few

times he got the urge but I just got his hands down.

So, til Friday, we'll see what happens.

Keep prayers coming.

Ruth

__________________________________________________