Saturday Evening

Baby steps in his progress this afternoon.

Over the course of the day they were able to slowly wean him down on the dosage levels for some of his medications.  If fact, they were able to take him completely off of the nitroglycerin.  This med was used to help dilate the blood vessels to his heart.  Thus allowing for more blood flow and oxygen to get to the heart.  The fear is that once his vessels begin to constrict down to a "normal" size,  the blood pressure etc would begin to crash again.  At this point, that is NOT the case.  He has been off for 4-6 hours and seems to be handling it well without the nitroglycerin.  We will take the small positive step anyway we can get them!!!  This afternoon blood test showed that his enzyme level have decreased slightly as well!!

He is still in bad shape and even though they are calling him stable. It is a very tenuous level of stability. 

There are no plans to take him off of the sedation in the next 12-24 hours.  Also, there no plans to remove the ventilator during the same time frame.

Again- Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.

Jaren