November 30- Day 80

UPDATE- FRIDAY AFTERNOON 11/30

JEFF CODED TODAY AND IS BACK ON THE VENTILATOR. PRAY

UPDATE- FRIDAY NIGHT 11/30

Jeff choked on a piece of food. They think that either it was still in his mouth when he fell asleep after lunch (my dad and I fed him lunch and he did not eat much and when we left he was asleep and we moved his food tray out of his reach) or that he had started to swallow it and because of the weak muscles in his throat that it did not go down completely. When he choked and stopped breathing his heart stopped. They had to do CPR for 8 minutes. The nurse told my mother that they were bagging him the entire time and that he was receiving oxygen. Before we left tonight he was responsive. He looked at me, blinked in response to a question and he squeezed my hand. His heart doctor is confident that he will be fine. They are planning on getting him off the ventilator in the morning. I am going back there early in the morning. I have called several times and the nurse assures me he is doing fine. He is resting well but does awaken when she ask him questions.

It is truly a God thing that he was still in the ICU today when this happened. Two days ago they took him off the haldol but last night the psychologist put him back on .3 milligrams an hour ( he had previously been on 4 milligrams an hour). This morning the rehab hospital came to transfer him and because he was on the haldol he could not go. If he had choked at the rehab hospital it could have been much worse.