So many of you have asked for a update on my dad but with all the other excitement in my life I have hardly any time to update about dad. Mostly things have been stable, heading into his third week in ICU. A lot of just waiting around for something to change, good or bad, just something different from inanimate pop. As of today he is still on the ventilator however, his lungs are healing well. They are pulling less and less fluid from his lungs these days. However with every step forward there are a few steps back. Now he is bleeding internally again. At first they thought it was a ulcer, but after inspection it turns out there is no ulcer. Personally I think those things should result in a refund. However no dice, they stick a camera down you gullet and find nothing and you are paying out the exit gullet for it anyway.

So now the pin the tail on the disorder game has begun. They think that it is being caused by the blood thinners they are giving him for his heart valve. So this presents this damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario. If they pull them off the thinners he strokes out/heart stops and he dies. They leave him on and he bleeds out and dies. So now they have to find the happy medium of the two.  Who the hell knows what that is.

Tomorrow we try to pull him off the vent again, if he has to go back on I am pulling it if he wants. He cannot live like this.

Zorka won this in a claw game for my dad, its a soldier bear.

On a brighter note, happy July 4th. The bright side is I should have a great view of fireworks from the hospital!