2pm update

I just got back from being with Kevin during his 2pm check. He opened his eyes for me..which is the first time he's done that since last night. He is still not localizing except for moving his left arm but just barley. They have advised me that Kevin is very septic due to the blood infection and they are going to take out his central line later today and put in a new one since bacteria has attached itself to the current one he has. He is breathing different today. They said he's breathing about 7 points higher than what they want him too over the ventilator. They are watching this very closely and the respiratory doctor gave is nurse his personal cell phone # so he can be here if there are any further concerns from the time he was here to examine him this morning. The tech that preformed the EEG this morning said he didn't see any abnormalities but would still have to be read by the Dr.

The CT preformed yesterday shows he may have had some spasms in the blood vessels in his head ( or little mini strokes if you will ) and that may be the reason hes not moving his legs or localizing like he should be. They said when that happens they have to wait for the swelling to go down again and then do another CT scan to see if there was anymore damage to the brain. They did advise me that if there is more damage, that therapy and rehabilitation would help with his motor skills once we get him better and able to get up and move around. Please keep praying that the medicine they are giving him to help this fever and infection will do its job so we can continue to our road of recovery.

Kim