Thursday Update: 6/29/06
Hello to everyone. I trust you all are having a good week. Today was much better than yesterday here in Chapel Hill.
Josh had a good day as far as not being agitated. Mom and I watched him sleep all day (the highlight of our day is arguing over who will get to open the mail that day!!), which I am very grateful for, because it is hard to see him fight and get worked up. They are trying to figure out all the kinks in his medication so that he won't be too sleepy to follow commands but not so agitated as well. They believe that he gets so agitated because this is when the hurt part of his brain is trying to heal or that he is fighting through the injury so that he can function optimally. Josh is still in there. I truly know that! Tonight before we left for the evening he followed a few commands. I asked him for the typical thumbs up and he did. I asked for a squeeze of the hand and he did squeeze both hands tonight (stronger on the right than the left, but a squeeze none-the-less). And finally, I asked him that if he loved mom and I to wiggle his toes and those little toes were just a wiggling quite a bit. It was like a mini-emphatic statement! How encouraging. It is much easier to leave on that note for the evening than if he is restless and agitated.
Tomorrow's schedule holds a placement of a feeding tube in the radiology department. It is tentatively scheduled for 11am, but we'll see. Also, later in the afternoon if Josh's breathing status is okay then they may do a trial off of the ventilator to see how he does. Currently he is breathing on his own again and only using the ventilator for pressure support and doing just fine. Hopefully that will continue into tomorrow. If all were to go well over the next few days we could possibly be transferred to an intermediate intensive care unit at the beginning of next week. Then hopefully maybe a transfer closer to home in the near future - but that is all speculation. We will have to see how the next week goes.
Thank you all for your continued prayers, love, and support. We love you all.
Josh had a good day as far as not being agitated. Mom and I watched him sleep all day (the highlight of our day is arguing over who will get to open the mail that day!!), which I am very grateful for, because it is hard to see him fight and get worked up. They are trying to figure out all the kinks in his medication so that he won't be too sleepy to follow commands but not so agitated as well. They believe that he gets so agitated because this is when the hurt part of his brain is trying to heal or that he is fighting through the injury so that he can function optimally. Josh is still in there. I truly know that! Tonight before we left for the evening he followed a few commands. I asked him for the typical thumbs up and he did. I asked for a squeeze of the hand and he did squeeze both hands tonight (stronger on the right than the left, but a squeeze none-the-less). And finally, I asked him that if he loved mom and I to wiggle his toes and those little toes were just a wiggling quite a bit. It was like a mini-emphatic statement! How encouraging. It is much easier to leave on that note for the evening than if he is restless and agitated.
Tomorrow's schedule holds a placement of a feeding tube in the radiology department. It is tentatively scheduled for 11am, but we'll see. Also, later in the afternoon if Josh's breathing status is okay then they may do a trial off of the ventilator to see how he does. Currently he is breathing on his own again and only using the ventilator for pressure support and doing just fine. Hopefully that will continue into tomorrow. If all were to go well over the next few days we could possibly be transferred to an intermediate intensive care unit at the beginning of next week. Then hopefully maybe a transfer closer to home in the near future - but that is all speculation. We will have to see how the next week goes.
Thank you all for your continued prayers, love, and support. We love you all.
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