Thursday, August 27, 2009

Waiting to be stable for more tests

Quite a hotbed of activity here this morning. Dad was doing fairly well this morning, even up to the chair with PT, big breakfast, etc. Well, right after the doctors left the room (as it always happens), he had a seizure that lasted about three minutes.

Right after, they were able to get him back into the bed, and he had very low blood pressure, and experiencing periods of apnea (not breathing) for 15-20 seconds at a time.

They're trying to get his blood pressure and breathing stabilized enough to go down for a CT of the head and the chest. Thought we were getting there in the past 45 minutes, but in the past ten minutes things have gone back down. Blood pressure has dropped again, and the apnea is back, and starting to see his temperature go up.

We're trying to get some better monitoring equipment, and potentially even a move to the ICU.

A positive sign - his left arm seems to be a bit stronger and used more today. More as we know.

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