Aortic Dissection Repair day 4 1/18/13

January 18

Friday morning...after a difficult day yesterday with much pain and discomfort, the night was OK and John slept some. He does have a temperature this morning which is not good. Secretions also make for lots of congestion, also not good. But, we can be thankful there is no more atrial fibrillation. The medication for that has been the cause of nausea so we will be glad to be done with that soon. When I got here, John was already sitting up in bed and will be sitting most of the day. This helps with coughing UP the secretions instead of just rattling them around. But coughing hurts a lot. Hopefully today the two small chest tubes will come down and hopefully his kidney function will start to improve. Please, Lord!

Last night, we were talking and he wanted to make a serious point. He said, "I'm not serious and I'm kidding..." Just the opposite of what he wanted to say. Have to laugh at what we can, these days!

Appreciate your messages and posts and encouragement and prayers!

Thankfully, Winston arrived last night.  He and Karissa will be around here all day helping as they can.  But, I will have a hard time when they leave tomorrow morning....their presence is such a comfort!

Becki


Karissa 1/18
Hmmmmm wish I could be super positive. Haven't really wanted to do an update because its just kind of hard right now. Dad is extremely overwhelmed and hasn't gotten sleep because of people always coming in the room to do whatever. Plus, when you've been pretty healthy and on minimal drugs and then all at once your body is bombarded... It's tough. Still nauseous all day... Creatinine is still going up so not a good sign... So he will have an ultrasound tomorrow to check blood perfusion in the kidneys. Also been fighting a temperature so cultures have been done to check for possible infection. We were just hoping for more progress by now and it seems to be getting worse. Mom and I are just emotionally drained from seeing Dad like this and being in the hospital so long. I also need to be getting back to school but don't want to leave mom alone so yeah...We will see. Prayers. — with John Knobloch.