Hunter is doing pretty good. He's able to have noise in the room, so we have been talking, reading and letting him listen to some TV.
I have been watching these nurses work so hard to help Hunter, and I can tell you there is not enough money in the world to do some of the things they have to do. I guess that's why it take special people to do each job people do for a living. I just found one more that I wouldn't chose to do. But they do their job well, you should of has seen them last night when they heard about the bus roll over by the Dam. It was crazy, but they were ready to do what the were trained to do. It makes me see what great care Hunter has been under since he got here.
They removed the 24 probes from his head today and removed the machine from the room. His room is looking larger. They seem to think the ------ can't remember what they call it. The one that measure pressure, might come out in the morning. They said when that happens they'll be able to do an MRI of his neck.
Hunter is coughing a lot more, and has the shakes, and is still fighting a fever. His heart rate has been really high, up to 156, they just gave him medicine again to bring that down.
His oxygen level on breathing is 40% and a new one thing I learned tonight was pip he's at 12 but they would like it at 5. Not sure what pip means but Bill(2) says I can ask the same questions again.(both breathing nurses names are Bill, they're trying to make things easier for me)The breathing machine gives Hunter 20 breaths per min, and he is making the machine do 28 so that is good.
They now have him on insulin and pricking his finger often because his blood sugar levels are high.
The bacterial sickness Hunters has is call C-biff (that's me sounding it out)
It seem we concur one big thing and we are told of allot of little things.
There is so much more to come, but we are so thankful for all the small and major step of progress Hunter has made with the help of the Dr.'s, Nurses, and most of all our Heavenly Father. Oh the things we take for granted in our lives.
Kim, Duane & Hunter,
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We share things with the boys. They have been worried and wanting to understand. We explained that he will need some amount of rehabilitation and they wanted Hunter to know that they are ready, willing and able to come (when Hunter is ready) and do some "Nintendo rehab"! (smile) They think that might be a good amount of cure!
I know we have not gone through exactly the same things, but we can recognize the roller coaster ride and often fatigue beyond fatigue present in your lives.
Duane and Kim, we pray for your ability to rest and recoup strength for the long haul. For Hunter, we pray for his recovery. Like you said, success comes in large ways and in the small and you see far more than you ever saw before.
You have retained your sense of humor, which is vital. We all giggled a lot about the improved reading subliminal messages. Wish we had thought of that before!
(tears) We used a commercial line from the 70s to help us to keep the faith and keep going when we were going through many ups and downs and wondering if we were handling the challenges alright or not. "Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down." We knew we would have tough days and feeling upset days and feeling wonderful days. We just looked at success as whether we picked ourselves up and kept going.
We are with you in our prayers and in our thoughts and hoping you always know that you are not alone.
Congrats on a very good week!
Darin, Diane (scribe), Jonathan, Joshua, Jameson and Jian