Saturday Update: 6/10/06

**written by Cari**

Hello again and thank each and everyone one of you for your continued prayers in Josh's recovery. I trust you all have had a great Saturday.

Josh took another big step backward today. He started out the day with alot of difficulty breathing. They are unsure as to why, but they had to go up quite a bit on his ventilator settings. Once again they are breathing for Josh. They have changed the way they are delivering breaths to him. Now instead of just forcing the air into the lungs while Josh breathes, they have increased the volume of air so as to meet the needs of his body to be able to oxygenate well. Josh has also been fighting a fever all day. For this reason, they took out some of his lines and restarted some iv's in case this may have been causing the fever. Since the ventilator changes earlier this morning Josh has seemed pretty comfortable throughout the rest of the day. It has been a long day, but I pray that Josh has a restful night and that things will go better tomorrow.