Day 12

Monday 9/24

Today was a better day. They got some of the blood work from the heart and there were some levels that were off. They told me that they were not bad enough to call a cardiologist in for a consult. His kidneys are still not working and they still think it will be 6 to 8 weeks before they know about that. The lung doctor wants to try to take him off the ventilator tomorrow morning. They told me they were not promising anything but they want to try. The ventilator is only providing him with 4 breaths per minute and he is doing the rest on his own. They are going to do a chest x-ray and do some more blood work. They will have to take him off his sedation medication in order to do this and they last time they tried to take him off the sedation medication he became very disoriented and upset. My plan is to be at the hospital and in his room by 6 am.