Clearing another hurdle on the road to recovery

Happy New Year everyone!

We're not out of the woods yet, but we've started moving in the right direction - again!

Under sedation and the close supervision of the ICU nurse, he had a relatively quite and stable night. His vitals are good and the nurses have been able to back off on his blood pressure medicine. The potassium in his blood was at dangerous levels yesterday, but thankfully today's lab results show a drop in the potassium level. Potassium is critical for heart function, digestion and muscular function. His kidneys are inflamed (maybe called nephritides) because of the leakage. They are monitoring this closely and treating it with antibiotics. Critical, but managable and treatable.

His body is weak from all he's been through, but we're hopeful he has the strength and will to pull himself up from this low point. Just a few days ago he was trying to get outside to smoke a cigarette - as annoying as I thought that was - I'm holding on to the fact we were researching ways to bring him home and preparing for the next step in recovery. We can get there again.

Perhaps it's time for me to take a photo of my 7-month pregnant belly and post a profile pic illustrating while in this difficult moment, we can still count our blessings.