Happy to report that John had a stable night. The first goal is to get him off continuous dialysis and onto regular dialysis. That can't happen until he can maintain his own blood pressure without meds. So far, so good. Regular dialysis removes a lot of blood at once and can drop your blood pressure so we are not ready for that yet.
Very slow progress on breathing on his own without a vent. He has to be able to maintain good oxygen saturation with reduced levels of support. They have begun slowly reducing his extra oxygen and pressure to his lungs but that is one and a half steps forward and one step back. He is doing a little better in that department than he was a couple of days ago.
John has a bit of a rash which could be caused by a lot of things including some of the strong meds he is on. Dermatology is checking into it.
He is pretty sedated while going through all of these challenges but I am saving all of your messages and cards to share with him when he is doing better.
Happy to have better news to share from here in the burrow.
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