Greetings. Steve continues his battle to heal and to fight off the two new strains of pneumonia. One is a super-strain so they are very concerned that the antibiotic tools they have available are powerful enough to knock it out. His temperature is near normal but that does not mean all is well. He pulled his chest drain out last nite and they decided to watch is ventilator stats and leave it out. He still shows a leak from the surgery so that is a problem.
He had four visitors today! He smiles at every familiar face that comes in the door. He is a bit self conscious what with all the tubes and that he cannot talk. As an added bonus today, his teeth were still blue from the dye tests yesterday. Thanks for coming!
He wants to get up and go. He is quite a hand full as he is always trying to get his legs over the side of the bed rail. Physical therapy gave him a workout today but he did not slow down his effort to "make a break for it".
Tonite the plan is to install a simpler more streamlined trach tube. Hopefully it will be more comfortable and therefore less of one more thing that needs to be pulled on. They have increased his calorie intake in order to give his body the best chance to fight and heal.
Thanks again for prayers. He has not received many cards but the ones he has are displayed prominently. Hint, Hint.
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Please provide us the mailing address at the hospital, so we can send Steve something.
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