Mr. V's Journey To Recovery

Jonathan and I went to see my dad late this evening. Due to an emergency in the STICU with another patient it was on lockdown again. Finally, we were able to see him. His eyes were open again. I was telling him stories and he was able to move his mouth a little and his eyes and eyebrows. He was on his dialysis machine and its a 24 hour dialysis machine. This way it can really help out his kidneys. They had done a CAT SCAN again to see if maybe they could find anything else that may be adding to the infection they found nothing. The New Nurse said they could not find any other infections in his body. She told us he was stable and that he had no fever and that his blood pressure is normal. She said she took him off of one blood pressure medicine. He is in a new type of bed that he is strapped to so they can rotate him from side to side while he is on dialysis. This is supposed to help the lungs she said. I am not sure what she meant by that but I was just to busy being happy that she said he was doing fine so far. Now we just have to pray he stays fever free and normal blood pressure through the night. His heart rate is high but they are going to figure out what to do in the morning when the doctors do their rounds. Also the renal doctor (for his kidney's) will come too, to check out his kidneys to see if they are doing any better. I am praying that they will do better and that he will fight this infection. He has come so far from such serious injuries, he has some fight left in him.