Thursday, October 27, 2016

Medicated to sleep

After two different sedatives were administered over the course of the morning, Timmy is settled back down. His fever has come back, but the cultures from yesterday (urine, blood, mucus) all show no growth. His weight is up to 4.225 kg today, even after being back on all diuretics. His weight had been stalled around 3.6 kg for several weeks, so that is encouraging.

The cardiologist team met today and discussed Timmy. The big decision was that we don't have enough time on the ventilator nor enough new data to decide anything. This was one of the better results we could have hoped for. No new ray of hope, but no bad news either. Next week on Monday or Thursday more decisions will probably be made.

They are not sure why he has been struggling and spiking fevers, so that is still a concern. And even now, his heart rate is starting to go back up, despite the morphine they gave him thirty minutes ago. It may be a long day.

Praising God for his goodness through it all.

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