Status:
Medications: Alex is on less medication and showing to remain somewhat stable with less swings.
He is currently on 2 medications (continuous drip) to keep him in his deep sleep. He is on 1 pain medicine (continuous drip). He is on an antibiotic that is covering infection of brain and lungs.
Breathing: Alex is intubated and oxygen is being provided through line in his throat at a slow rate.
Nutrition: He has an IV line that is providing him with proteins and calories and a second IV line providing lipids.
His State:
He is deeply (supposed to be completely) sedated so we had not felt him squeeze our finger nor wiggle his toes until this morning at 6:45am. Up until now he has shown a little reaction of open eyes when the doctors do the annoying routine lung suction about every 4 hours. At 645 I stood over him, held his hand, and this time felt a different level of warmness. His nurse Ryan was pronouncing the medications for me and Alexs eyes opened and his fingers moved within my hand. Alex gave a little gag through the respiratory line that is in his throat as a sign of him trying to cough. He was quickly given a bolus of sedation to calm him and not allow him to get overly excited. 730 neurologist came to see for themselves and Alex very lightly responded to the command of "Alex squeeze my hand".
This is a good sign!!!!
We sat here for 9 days waiting for a sign...today his eyes opened, that's a sign... oh the joy to see that. Oh the joy to feel his fingers soo soo gently squeeze my hand. I want to squeeze his hand so hard and pull him off his bed to go about some other type of daily routine...a routine other than the routine that we are currently in....but today he is here, we are here...he gave us a sign that he can hear us. He let us know that he hears us. Doctors say this is great...but we need to let him rest so that he can heal and get his strength.
Thank you for all of your prayers, your positive thoughts and energies. Keep them coming. On a separate blog I put up a short list of some prayers that we have been praying over him, feel free to backtrack on the pages to see.
Readings and Energies:
James 1: 2-5
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
James 1: 6
"But When you ask. You must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
Cycling analogy:
The road is pretty flat right now. Not sure for how long...It feels like we are warming up...we are moving forward. We are starting to get a little distance while we are not putting as much effort into it....we just pedal...and are thankful that we can pedal, the fog is starting to lift, we can see a little bit more ahead of us, and start to record some distance.
Praying and praying and praying
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