8:45am....
Ron had a rough night last night ...I should say we both did....We have had maybe 3 hours of sleep.
Around 10pm he started to spike a fever and his heart rate started to climb back up into the the 130-140 range having tachycardia. His blood pressure kept dropping..at some point in the 70's systolic. They tried small dosages of medicine to bring the heart rate down and small dosages of meds to bring his blood pressure ...it did not make a difference. Around 4am Dr. Smith was paged and she had them increase the meds....in the meantime I started stripping blankets off of him and putting wet towels on his head and lowering the temperature in the room. By 5am ...his heart rate started to come back down and his blood pressure is back to normal range. His fever right now is low grade..his heart continues to go back and forth ..for the most part it is staying in the mid 120's...but it still tends to go into the 130's from time to time. Once the cultures come back they can get him started on an antibiotic to take care of whatever is in his system.
No word yet on the echo that was done yesterday evening. We hope to know more later today.
He is sleeping now.
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