Its Thursday night, me and my mom just got home from the hospital. Gracie and I are staying the night here again tonight. Andrew is still stable. The preliminary reading of the cat scan results were good, they compared it to the MRI taken right after his stroke when he was admitted originally and it showed no further damage or bleeding in the brain from what is going on with the seizures. They are weining him off of the Versed which is one of the meds that is inducing his coma. When Liz and Phil got there they weined him from .4 to .3 and they will wein him during the night, but he wont start coming out of coma until they start weining him off the Pentobarb. He is also on Dobutamine which is keeping him under as well. He is also on his seizure meds regular dosage. He is also on Vinpat, a new seizure medication that is relativly new to the market. The doctors made sure Andrew has his own private nurse who has a lot of experience and has worked with coma patients before, as his case is probably the most involved case they have in the ICU at this hospital currently. His nurse he had during the day today will be his nurse tomorrow, she was very good (not very friendly) but knew exactly what she was doing and was in the room most the day checking his stats. His oxygen is 91 which is low, they are going to do a chest x-ray tonight to make sure the vent is in the right spot, they said they think its a little high. It was very very hard to sit there helpless watching him hooked up to so many different iv lines and monitors and a ventilator. We did find out that Andrew is doing nothing for himself right now while hes hooked to the ventilator, we thought before since they would turn it down he was doing part of the breathing, but we were informed the vent is doing all his breathing. They were also concerned when he was hooked to the catheter, it was nothing but blood, they thought there was internal bleeding coming from somewhere but after they flushed it out they think it was just irritation from the cath.
Please continue to keep Andrew and our family in your prayers, we hope no seizure activity starts once he is being weined off these meds or they will have to keep him in coma longer.
The plan for tomorrow is Dad going up first, then Liz and Phil, then me and mom, i will update when we get home.