6/17/11

Today has been a smooth day for John, mostly because he's still sedated.. but truthfully that has caused him to be way more comfortable. It's been a blessing because the Dr's have been able to run a bunch of tests that would have otherwise taken a couple days to accomplish because they don't need to do individual sedations for each procedure. However, we are still praying that he wakes up out of it fine, and that it does not affect his memory.

They started things around 11pm last night. They put a catheter in his upper right leg to run into his heart. We haven't been able to get cardio vascular people on board that this is something other then a kidney issue so the PICU dr's ran it. They are able to do about half of what cardio people can do... they can't go as deep. Cardio will only come on board if hte PICU dr's find something. (This has been the only issue we've run into with the Dr's not cooperating so far.) Today they ran a camera in to check out his lungs, and they did a bone marrow biopsy. So we've got everything covered and hopefully after this weekend somebody will come back with some conclusive results.

Literally I don't know how to spell all the ology's of the departments, but infectious disease, skin, heart, lung, bone, and kidney, are all working to find out what's attacking John. Please pray for their searching that a result may be found!

Also, a HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you to all family and friends who have financially come beside us to help secure the Ronald McDonald house placement, who've sent giftcards for food, etc. We really appreciate all of your support and it makes this time so much easier!