Update #3

Just got off the phone with the doc. Dad was on blood pressure medication and is doing well enough to where he does not need that medication anymore. Since the blood pressure drop his urine output was not at a rate they liked. That being said they needed to look into his kidney to determine the cause of the lack of urine output. Doc related that when blood pressure drops the kidney tie is a side affect. Typically it takes a few days for the kidney to get back up and running. They contacted a Kidney specialist to weigh-in and cover all angles as a precaution. They will be monitoring his kidney diligently for the next few days.

Initially, they decreased the sedation but dad was over breathing and brought his sedation back up. What that means is that the ventilator is set to regulate his breathing pattern. Dad was breathing to a point where it went around the tubes and caused disruption and he is taking to short of breaths and not getting the needed oxygen to recover. The sedation will keep him under enough so he can properly recover with the machine and let it do it work. Dads a fighter and is even fighting the machine!

Outside of those tiny differences everything is the same, he is trucking along as expected.

Till next time.....