Monday, June 16, 2008

The last 5 days have been really stressful for Kenny, the medical staff, as well as the family. Thursday night his lungs failed and he was receiving no oxygen from the ventilator. A new breathing tube was put in and worked. The doctor gave us little hope that he would make it through the night, but he did. Friday and Saturday he got a little better and they started trying to wean him from this respirator and have got it down to 50%. The thick fluids that settle in his lungs would not suction out of the breathing tube and Sunday morning the doctor put a drain/suction tube in his left side. This appears to really help and he looks a lot better. He’s still medically paralyzed. Hopefully, real soon, they will be able to keep lowering the oxygen on this ventilator and change it to the other one before pneumonia sets back in again. He’s still in critical condition.