Exhaustion has set in with us

Currently due to his condition and being in ICU, Connor is not accepting any visitors at this time.

 Another rough mental day for us with some activity and little progress to become fully awake/aware.   The biggest single hurdle currently for the trauma team is the delicate balance of meds - between aggressive behavior and calmness. Getting him off the IV and on to oral meds only is key to his departure from the ICU. They started several new oral meds today while watching for results. This will continue through tonight into tomorrow. He has been resting comfortably and maybe that is the process with which he will utilize to awaken.

All day today Connor was breathing on his own again with the ventilator standing by to provide assistance as needed. He received a couple stitches on his scalp to close the flap staples that he had torn open yesterday. The neurosurgeon came by to update us on his view of the CT Scan from yesterday. He is pleased that the brain looks good and that there is space between the two hemispheres. He does not like the fact that the brain is still distended on the right side and has not gone back to its original location in the skull. The plan is to start wrapping Connor's head with an ace wrap in an effort to apply pressure on the flap and  to assist the brain back into position. This will continue until Saturday when the next CT Scan is scheduled.

Time to head home to our 100 degree home (heatwave here in Portland) and neglected dogs. Good night

Comments

  1. motherspeakAugust 3, 2017 at 10:21 PM

    Thank you for the update. We all appreciate hearing how Connor is doing. Sending love to all of your family...dogs too. ❤️

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

19 months out

Image
I haven't posted here in a while, so I thought I would put a picture up of Connor.  It has been 19 months since Connor's accident.  He is still experiencing seizures from time to time.  That is the biggest thing that he is battling.  He has been doing LENS neurofeedback once a week since October 2018 and we have seen significant improvement in his seizures and his life.  Beginning in January, he went back to work part-time and he has started to have a social life again.  He is still not 100%, but I'd say he's 95%, so he still has a ways to go, but with neurofeedback and his will to live, he will get there.   When this accident first happened, the drs and nurses all told us it would be a long road to recovery.  They told us it would be 2-3 years.  We just couldn't imagine what they were saying and how that could be, but darned if it isn't approaching 2 years already!  Recovery has been an excruciatingly slow process since he got out ...
Read more

Sunday, Sunday

Currently due to his condition and being in ICU, Connor is not accepting any visitors at this time. Lazy Sundays are nice to have, can't wait to enjoy them at home in lieu of Hotel Emmanuel. Connor has spent today napping off and on while getting a chance to see his brother and sister along with Mama and Papa who dropped by. Great to see him reach for them and have recognition on his face.  He will stay one more night in ICU due to it being Sunday (no moves apparently on the weekend) and the Hotel is full until some of the guests start checking out tomorrow morning.  They did change out his trach tube to a smaller size to continue his transition off utilizing this equipment and back to breathing through his mouth/nose again.  He is sleeping peacefully and his relaxed face is reflecting the healing that we are seeing in his brain. Hard to have him sleep while we are there, as we want to be talking with him and having him reacting to our conversation. But we also kn...
Read more

Home Run

Connor can have visitors on a 1-on-1 basis and they need to go through Shan.  He has been asking to see his friends. So if anyone would like to visit, please make arrangements with Shan.  360-984-4780 Well, it has been some kinda day today with Connor.  After sleeping well overnight (as well as you can in a hospital), Connor consumed his first breakfast in 5 weeks - chopped French toast, puréed eggs, yogurt and keifer.  He then went off to rehab where Dana, his therapist got him out of the wheelchair for his first steps. They proceeded over the next 30min to walk up and down the walkway with rails for an impressive three trips. By the end of the third trip, Connor was exhausted and sweating from working himself to the bone. His therapist was blown away by the progress over this week, she has been with him all week and has seen him go from barely balancing on the side of the bed to now walking.  Next up was his first lunch in 5wks which he proceeded to fa...
Read more