Tuesday Evening Post

I think we are all leaving the hospital encouraged tonight. We really don't have any answers but we are seeing some good signs. I am sorry if this is a repeat from earlier. We were told the lungs look good. If they were damaged then that would be a huge problem. From my simple understanding of what is going on this is a surprising thing to the dr. The valve that is leaking should be putting blood into the lungs but there is no sign of that. They were able to pull off 4 liters of fluid during dialysis today. They were unable to pull much off yesterday because his heart could not handle it. They changed the heart medicine from one that was to help the blood pressure to one that is designed to help the valve problem. I went in there around 6 and the nurse told me that they were slowly taking him off the blood pressure meds but that his blood pressure had stabilized at a normal level. The heart dr will be back in the morning to review all of this and will see where to go. My mom told me that the nurse told her that she was very encouraged and he was giving her the thumbs up that he understood what was going on and is ok with it. That is a lot different then last night where he shook his head no at one of the dr that was telling him they were going to do a procedure.

God has been good to us today as he is everyday. I will let you know more tomorrow. Please keep praying about the heart issues and wisdom of all doctors involved.

Thanks for the prayers!!!