"At 9'ish this morning, they swapped the advanced ventilator for a normal one. Currently, it's going at 60% capacity. His kidneys thankfully are good and they have started giving him drugs to cause them to drain excess fluids from his body. Deep sedation drugs are also reduced to slowly bring him to consciousness. This may take a couple of days to occur. They will look for slight movements in his limbs, etc. When he shows responsiveness, they will put him into a gentle sleep again so that he does not fight the tube that's in his throat.
Then to check for possible brain damage, they will apply pressure to his nails - the nurse says this can be painful. If there is a grimace on his face or his hand reflexively tries to pull away, this is a good sign. If he is able to move his limbs, to do what the nurse asks of him, etc, these are indicators of no brain damage. They have tested his eyes' responses to light and the pupils reacted to the it, however, this is not a good enough indicator to confirm lack of damage to his front lobe of the brain."
2 comments:
thank the lord for small miracles! Hopefully, our prayers are answered n Edi makes a full recovery!
U still make lousy coffee n his is the only one that I will drink at yr place! :)
Stay positive n stay strong!
Once a Loretta, always will be!
thanks....
one has to have SOME drawbacks..
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